Tallinn Crisis

Dynmap image of Paskalampi, Tallinn, and Parnu.

### Result

Baltic Duchy defeat; secession from Germany and renaming to Livonian Order; temporary suspension of Towny war mechanism; reversal of all wartime claims

## Belligerents

Paskalampi (Finland), Nuuk (German Empire), Clew Bayv.

Tallinn (Baltic Duchy), Parnu (Baltic Duchy)

## Commanders

Paskalampi: Nubex, textercraftNuuk: Pierronus (mod)

Clew Bay: John\_yuki

Tallinn: Ka9l

Parnu: Frost\_Wallop, CrispyCaramel

Independent Combatants: Agaloth (mod), iQuackLikeADuck (mod), ValiantSpice (South Africa), Blazemerald\_King (South Africa)

## Casualties and Losses

Frost\_Wallop by ValiantSpice (Accidental)Pierronus by iQuackLikeADuck

The **Tallinn Crisis** was an invasion of the Baltic Duchy by Finland and their allies. The aims were to retaliate against Ka9l, the mayor of Tallinn and head of the Baltic Duchy, for his theft of players' resources and planning of a war against Finland. At the onset of the invasion using the new Towny war mechanism, the server moderators were informed that the conflict was able to continue despite a very small number of Baltic Duchy citizens being online. This resulted in the server's owner, Agaloth, and other moderators coming to quell the violence. The fighting moved to the southern Baltic Duchy city of Parnu, where the fatalities of the war occurred. Agaloth promptly ordered a ceasefire and turned off the Towny war mechanism. Once all of the wartime claims were reversed, Ka9l declared the Baltic Duchy's independence from the German Empire and renaming to the Livonian Order.

## Background

Tensions between Finland, the Baltic Duchy, and the German Empire ran high following a string of high-profile killings by Finland's leaders. On March 7th, Ka9l was killed in London by Nubex, Finland's leader and mayor of Paskalampi. On March 8th, another Baltic Duchy mayor was killed by Finland. This served as the tipping point for the Duchy, which began preparing for war against Finland. In the following days, the fields to the east of Paskalampi were mined, and war equipment was stockpiled in Tallinn. The attack was planned for Friday, March 13th.

The planned war between the Baltic Duchy and Finland was not well-received by the leadership the German Empire, the former's mother country. Crown Prince Frederick III and Kaiser JustNinja02 attempted to talk Ka9l and his commanders out of the conflict, to no avail. On March 11th, the Crown Prince publicly announced the intentions for war on the public server chat (prior to this, all discussion of war was limited to Discord servers). The Baltic Duchy responded by removing many German officials from their servers, including Frederick III. Relations between the mother and daughter countries rapidly deteriorated as both sides accused the other of unethical behavior. As these discussions were ongoing, Finland capitalized on the situation, and rallied their allies to preemptively wage war against the Baltic Duchy.

After the war, however, the relations between the German Empire and the Baltic Duchy started to deteriorate again and heavily. The German Empire denounce the Duchy for stealing its citizens's stuff and so it started to prepare for a war against it. But al the preparations for a conflict cheased after Nubex (Finnish leader) asked JustNinja02 to make a peace treaty with Ka9l and to stop the crisis once and for all. So, on the same day, the treaty of Paskalampi was signed between the german Kaiser, the baltic king and the finnish leader as mediator.

## Invasion

**NOTE: Invasion details have been omitted, pending an official relaying of the events by the server administrators.**