SovAfrica v. Japan

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## Details

### Result

* Cocoapuff9878 exiled
* Japan Puppet Government instated
* Japan incorporated into the Cominterm

**Note: Unfortunately due to the age of this war, many of the players who fought in the war do not remember details while some other players have quit entirely. This page maybe missing entire portions of the war or have incorrect details, please add details or corrections if you can.**

SovAfrica v. Japan was a war fought between Soviet Africa and the Kingdom of Japan which was controlled by the Iberian Empire. The SovAfrica v. Japan was a major failure for the military of Japan and was a source of great embarrassment for the Iberian Empire, even though Soviet Africa was outnumbered 2:1 they managed to defeat the military of Japan within minutes without any casualties whatsoever.

The war was initiated by Soviet Africa as retribution for an unprovoked previous attack on their soviet ally, EastAsianUnion.

## The Battle

### Pre-War Phase

Before the war, former Iberian leader Franz15 reached for help, went to Minemen.club server and quickly befriended a Chilean faction, highly skilled in PvP. With its help, Iberia hoped it could win the war. Arpinea (Iberian Leader at the time) and MofuAwake had created an XP farm in the outskirts of Cantabria (north Iberia), and quickly prepared several sets of enchanted armor and weapons, to prepare the newly arrived Chileans. They were called "Tercios", the new special Iberian forces, and joined the Japanese faction.

Japanese forces gathered at the outskirts of Tokyo at a temple preparing to defend the flag from Soviet forces and quickly amassed to a force of 20 players, small defenses were set up such as chunk hoppers and cobwebs along side with automated arrow launchers however all these defenses proved to be useless and ultimately back fired during the war.

### The Soviet Assault

With the cover of invisibility potions, Soviet forces unleashed a sudden and surprising attack upon the unsuspecting Japanese forces armed with fully enchanted armor and weapons along with explosive pickaxes and breached through the roof of the temple completely destroying the entire storage room and its chests leaving items all over the floor clogging the inventories of many players as well as overwhelming the chunk hoppers designed to transport items of deceased fighters into collection chests. What followed was disorganized and chaotic fighting and would claim the lives of almost all of the Japanese forces.

### The Last Stand

After the initial assault on Japan, remaining forces of the assault rallied at a cactus farm gathering strength in order to unleash a assault on Soviet Africa however the assault never happened as the remaining holdouts were killed.

## Controversy

### Insider

After the war it was discovered that Subsitol, a player who fought on the Iberian side of the war was actually insiding after confessing doing so in a Discord DM after the conclusion of the war. Subsitol who was a Soviet loyalist murdered a member of SovAfrica in cooperation with Soviet Africa in order to give them a cause belli against Japan.

8tv, a staff member at the time, chose to simply give Japan to the Soviets, disregarding the rules of the server.

### Breach of contract

With Iberia furious of the unauthorized war that Cocoapuff9878 had waged against EastAsianUnion Iberia had agreed with SovAfrica not to directly intervein in the conflict choosing to secretly supply Japan with weapons and supplies however it was discovered that denden1088 a member of a Iberian Colony had participated in the war however it was later discovered that due to poor communications between Iberian command and its colonies the colonies had not been made aware of such agreement.

*Franz15: There was very clear communication between the Mainland and the Colonies, we talked everyday but Japan has always been a more independent territory than usual, because we trusted Cocoa's leadership. The war against SovAfrica was of the utmost priority and we have done everything we could to help, as winning the war would've stabilished Iberia as the main superpower at the time. Denden (as well as many others), although seeming like your everyday citizen, he was actually one of the most trusted in the entire Empire and was aware of a majority of plans. We participated actively, providing not only supplies but soldiers.*

*There was a lot of communication between the Mainland and Cocoa and Mint, however, we made the mistake of letting Cocoa, which didn't knew Spanish lead the defensive war, and lead 20 spanish-speaking players, which were good at pvp, but didn't understand the specific dynamics of Geographica PvP, which are different than regular PvP. It wasn't a lack of manpower or a lack of equipment, but rather a lack of organization within the war.*

## Aftermath

### Result

After the humiliating defeat of Japan the leader at the time Cocoapuff9878 was exiled and a puppet government was instated incorporating Japan into the Cominterm.

With the loss of Japan Iberia had lost its influence not only in Asia but in the entire eastern hemisphere and would never again regain its Asian colony or have any colony ever again in the east.

### Reasons for Losing

The army of Japan struggled to equip the massive army of 20 players with mismanagement playing a key role and as a result many of the players had ether unenchanted or low level enchanted amour despite external support. While the army did have trained pvpers the army was primarily comprised of underequipped and untrailed players. Cocoapuff9878, General of the Japanese army was heavily criticized for his failure to lead his army, not permitting any defense, or building a fort.