Amerigan War
The Amerigan War, also known as the Slaver War or the Amerigan Slaver War, was a conflict early in NationStates history and sometimes referred to as WWIV by those who have been counting. It is often considered the epitome of great war roleplay, but since then all threads related to it have been lost forever to the winds of the forum.
The war began with the public revelation that Amerigo still practiced Slavery. Several coalitions developed to either liberate the slaves, conquer Amerigo, or defend it, and numerous other nations became involved as a cascade effect.
After much diplomatic breast-beating, Amerigo was blockaded, and then later invaded, with most of the major players of the time participating in one fashion or another. Kitsylvania was elected to moderate the RP by common popular consent, although not in any official game capacity - this preceded actual moderators selected from the player base - and somehow it all worked, according to all the old farts who hang around and talk about Role Playing.
It began with a blockade, then a naval and air war, then progressed to a ground invasion of the island of Amerigo.
Tahar Joblis played a prominent role in organizing the threads with indices OOCly, and ICly loomed until such point in time as Tahar Joblissan TJF-3 Mongoose fighters engaged EOTED M#s, with surprising results for all, and a Yavin submersible aircraft carrier captured a solar powered submarine from Tahar Joblis, which detonated a nuclear device in its hold, bringing the war to a very tense moment.
An extended view
What eventually became known as the Amerigan Slaver war began in late January/early February of 2003, when the Republic of Syskeyia became aware that the People's Republic of Amerigo was selling slaves. As a result, Syskeyian President and First Consul Benedict Michael Sukothai ordered a blockade of the country and set up a forward deployment base at the nearby St. Peter Claver Island. Unofficial diplomatic neogatiations, as well as an undeclared naval war began, but the crisis seemed to be resolved when Amerigo took Ineptia's offer to buy all of Amerigo's slaves.
This resolution, however, was thwarted when mercenaries from the BlackWolf Order destroyed one of the Ineptian transports. Ineptia canceled the deal, and though Syskeyia took up the offer, Amerigo refused to agree to Syskeyia's request.
An undeclared naval and air war followed, with Melkor Unchained sending in a token force to (unsuccessfully) engage the Syskeyian fleet. Amerigo called the involved nations together for a peace conference at the Amerigan port city of Liasa, but the conference was soon aborted.
(Two things should be noted here: First, Melkor attended the conference in person - God only knows how he fit in the building, and secondly, Syskeyian President and First Consul Benedict Michael Sukothai arrived in Amerigo to attend the conference, but by the time he got there, the conference was closed.)
After some more fruitless negotiations, Amerigo declared war on the "anti-slaver" nations. Iesus Christi and the Reich were the first to land, making their way through the countryside in a scortched-earth manner.
A joint force of Syskeyian, Chimaean and Rastonian troops landed on another beach of the Amerigan coastline and advanced their way to Jungle Falls.
At this point, EOTED declared that it would 'fight the war' - and not on any particular side - and launched air assets into the fray. These air assets combined with a small naval taskforce - the latter remaining well outside the combat area, content to launch long-range non-lethal weapons against ground emplacements on both sides. The air assets, for their part, attempted a 'harrying' action in the Bay of Amerigo, but faced stiff opposition from the Tahar Joblissian Navy. The M# interceptor was first deployed here, and although the M#s took losses beyond those of their enemies, they displayed their prowess in the air and furthered the image of the EOTED far beyond what it had previously been.
The war itself continued in what was in effect a stalemated position, with both sides gaining and losing ground on a continual basis; shelling of positions by EOTED forces no doubt added to the difficulty of fighting a ground war, as large numbers of troops on both sides were knocked unconscious by incoming non-lethal ultrasound missiles.
In the middle of the war, the Amerigan government collapsed. Some time therafter, a certain Amerigan general took control of the government, declaring slavery to be abolished as part of a larger program of Marxism. With that, the anti-slavery forces withdrew, and the war was brought to a surprisingly calm conclusion.
Consequences of the Amerigan Slaver War
This war, which is generally considered to be one of the greatest wars ever fought in NS, is probably the most well-known conflict in NS involving slavery. Syskeyia kept its grip on St. Peter Claver Island, worried that Amerigo might wish to expand its Marxist empire, and the BlackWolf Order became an ally of Ineptia.
One of the most memorable aspects of the war was the conduct of the Reich forces.
