Battle of Budapest

The **Battle of Budapest** was a brief clash between Deutschland and Hungary on the capital of Hungary, Budapest. The siege started at 20:30 UTC on 5 December 2021, and soon the small encounter was turned into a big battlefield which was eventually destroyed by both German and Hungarian bombings.

## Background

On early December 2021, the Kingdom of Hungary began claiming the German settlement of Podtatranstvo in Slovakia as theirs, with Germany refusing to cede the town to the hungarians. Therefore, they took advantage of the wanted town being peaceful and occupied it without needing to make a siege.

On 5 December, the Great Army of Deutschland decided it was time to take action and began planning the siege. Around 19:50, troops started rallying at Leipzig and then marched towards Gyor, which was the original target town. After not being able to siege said place, they decided to march east and directly attack the capital of Hungary, Budapest. In the way, they met up with allied Prussian forces.

## First german offensive (20:40 — 21:00)

Ten minutes after planting the siege flag, combat in Budapest began, with the first Hungarian forces arriving being the Hungarian emperor GoulashDaddy and the Korean leader Ludwig\_H. Being only two on the battlefield against twelve, they were highly outnumbered, so soldiers from the Roman Republic (the other great power in Europe) began to arrive in considerable quantities. The German scouts observed three romans inside Budapest and retreated into the siege zone.

GoulashDaddy logically died fast, but as Roman reinforcements began entering the battlefield, the casualties on the German side turned to be higher. The army of Deutschland, despite being properly equipped, only had a few good pvpers, the rest being either decent or just builders. The clear advantage of the Romans in PVP was clear at this point, and they also attempted trapping some germans into little structures made of cobblestone.

## Second german offensive (21:20 — 23:00)

The Kaiser grantykied decided that the best choice would be retreat from the battlefield temporarily to reorganize troops. The high commands ArgieNick and SilentFizz called UN Peacekeepers and Earth for aiding, respectively. These two close allies started arriving to the rally point near Budapest. At 21:20, the fifteen men marched towards Budapest for attempting a second offensive wave. Early in the offensive, Prussia left the battlefield as one UN soldier killed them accidentally.

This time, the better-equipped German reinforcements began to breach inside some sections of the siege zone, still not being able to secure the banner control for long enough. After seeing this initial enemy success, SPQR called backups from Florida, Serbia and Korea in order to repel the offensive. On the German side, reinforcements from Qin, Hawaii, Udmurtia and Amazonian Empire arrived.

At this point, the German side (despite still suffering high numbers of losses) had begun pairing the power of the Hungarian side, and gained many points in the first and second battle sessions. Then, banner control was secured from some time until bombs started being used by both sides. Both German and Roman engineers thrown TNT minecarts at the siege zone several times in order to make damage to the enemy positions. On the whole battle, 22 people were killed by TNT (16 on the German side and 6 on the Hungarian side).

The bombings from the skies hindered the banner control attempts as big holes were created in the battlefield, making it quite risky to stay around without being pushed to the bottom of the holes.

## Hungarian counter-offensive (23:00 — 23:30)

By 23:00, the helpful German allies from Qin, UN and Earth began going offline, therefore making Deutschland as weak as at the start of the battle. The defenders used this to their favor and, after some fighting, could secure the banner control for enough time at 23:20.

The German Army retreated into a new position near Budapest, but Korean and Floridan soldiers chased them and caused more casualties. The Kaiser grantykied concluded that it would be better to leave the siege zone.

## Aftermath

On 6 December 2021 at 0:20 UTC, the German Kaiser grantykied announced to the germans that they would surrender the siege after talks with KawadaJP, leader of Ryukyu. The agreement included cancelling the siege, giving back the 3.4k gold warchest to Deutschland and achieving peace with SPQR after some weeks of rising tensions between both powers.

At 1:00 UTC, the Okinawa Pact was signed by grantykied (Kaiser of Deutschland) and SkippZ\_ (General of SPQR), being mediated by KawadaJP (king of Ryukyu). The agreement included:

1. That Deutschland and SPQR agree on no more hostilities between citizens.
2. That Lugano in Switzerland would stay in Deutschland and therefore its occupation by SPQR would be ended.
3. That Laibach in Slovenia would be released from Deutschland and given to SPQR.
4. That Kazakh in Kazakhstan would be released from SPQR.
5. That Deutschland and SPQR will respect each others claims, as well as those from Hungary and England.

The battle ended with an indecisive result due to the peace signed. It may be considered that the Germans won the battle strategically by making 40k points during the siege, but the Hungarians won militarily by inflicting heavy damage overall.