Hapatmitas-Chevkri Campaign

Republica Square, Tiatua, the staging area for the campaign

The **Hapatmitas-Chevkri Campaign** (code-named **Operation Clapback Sandtrap**), was a Uldarash Civil War campaign conducted by the Empire of Loyalist Uldarash in Northern Chevkri and the Hapatmitas region of Eastern Uldarash, where Loyalist Uldarash tried to take control of the two regions most closely flanking them. The campaign was a crushing defeat for the Loyalists, as they scored no victories and only managed to kill two Imperials while suffering 61 casualties.

## Background

Following the loss at the Battle of Terroja, the Loyalist Army began to formulate counter-offensive against the Imperials. The War Council of Loyalist Uldarash began to devise a plan to overwhelm the Imperials by sheer number, and attack three cities at once, so the defenders would be scattered and unable to hold any of the cities against the mass of Loyalists. Originally, the plan was to attack the city of Hapatmitas (the imperial capital of the Second Empire of Uldarash), multiple cities in Northern Chevkri, including CoolioCity and Russantia, and the capital of Alokhrad, Eraquat. The plan was dubbed "Operation Clapback Sandtrap". Hapatmitas and CoolioCity were the most important cities to take, as there were no other Imperial settlements in the area, so if the Loyalists could take those cities, they would take the entire region, which would have nearly doubled the size of the Loyalist Empire.

## Campaign

The campaign began at 2:00 PM EST on November 21, 2021. Loyalist forces began staging at a makeshift camp built in Republica Square in Tiatua. The Loyalist Supply Corps had managed to create nearly 60 sets of armor and hundreds of swords and potions to arm the Loyalist forces. Despite the large number supplies, the Imperial forces still had far more, and while the Loyalists could not afford to lose the supplies they had, the Imperials could.

Before the battles officially began, Loyalist generals Thayff and Renitsu\_M were temporarily banned from the server for pre-war skirmishing, and considering they were both experienced fighters and leaders, this provided a significant disadvantage to the Loyalist attackers. In addition, the pre-battle organization was disorganized, with many people not knowing where they were supposed to be going, as the list of platoons was released only ten minutes before the battles started.

Once the battles had actually began, there were multiple miscommunications, with people going to the wrong battles, and in one case, a Bardonian soldier sounding retreat without any orders to do so. The Supply and Logistic Corps was extremely disorganized, with constant respawning soldiers grabbing supplies, and the Supply and Logistics Corps trying and failing to create queues for equipment to get things organized. Constant raids on the supplies by bandits made the distribution even harder, as none of the Supply and Logistics Corps members were good PvP fighters. There were even cases of Supply and Logistics Corps members and regular soldiers outright stealing supplies for themselves.

## Aftermath

The Hapatmitas-Chevkri Campaign was a massive strategic failure for the Loyalists and a major turning point in the Uldarash Civil War, with many Loyalists beginning to realize that winning the war would be completely impossible, just because of the skill of the Imperial Army. The Republic of Alfheim and the Federal Republic of Montroig began preparations for an unconditional surrender to the Second Empire of Uldarash, and complete evacuation of their nations. While this defeatist attitude was adopted, and the war seemed all but over, no official treaties were signed, and thus the war continued on. Many Loyalists held out hope that the Eldham Entente could help them, since they had a different conflict with Aurora, and were preparing to invade. Renitsu\_M and Argon\_Retter both gave formal statements in the Loyalist Discords that they would not be surrendering, and to continue to hold out until the Entente could arrive. They stated that they had learned from the mistakes of the previous battles and would use them to improve if another battle did end up occurring. The Entente continually changed positions regarding the civil war in this period, first acting in a pro-Caterina manner, then declaring neutrality following the Hapatmitas-Chevkri campaign, then returning to support of Caterina after the Battle of Fornost

Due to the failure of the battle, international support of the Loyalists dropped as well, with Bardonia, the Confederation of Ummarnu, and the Grand Sørligste Federation pulling out of the war and ending their support of the loyalists.