CW3

**COLD WAR: 3** is set in a separate universe to the first two Cold War Servers. The CW3 server is easily the biggest and most ambitious Fulda server yet. After an aggressive advertising campaign the server more than doubled in population, going from 100 discord members to over 250. The map was easily the biggest we'd had yet, and reflected a real world Earth. This server also had the most amount of factions coming up to around 30.

## Timeline

**Power Struggle within the Concordat Alliance:** The Concordat Alliance experienced a period of internal turmoil. Initially, this unrest was sparked by the "Doom" crisis, which saw a figure named Doom attempt a coup with the aim of changing the nation's name. This attempt, however, was just the beginning of the discord within the Alliance. Subsequently, Executive Director Sneakovski of the Concordat Alliance was implicated in anti-Soviet and counterrevolutionary activities. Upon being found guilty, he was ousted from the government, further destabilising the Alliance's leadership. This power vacuum was filled by Wrenthen Mikhailov, who successfully staged a coup and assumed leadership, marking a new chapter in the Concordat Alliance's troubled history.

**IPNS Joins Concordat:** The IPNS, originally neutral, decides to join forces with the Concordat Alliance, turning a large portion of Eurasia communist.

**Vietnam War:** The Vietnam War saw North Vietnam, a member of the Concordat Alliance, engaged in a conflict with South Vietnam. The United States provided support to South Vietnam during this period. When the conflict escalated into an invasion, international aid, including from the USSR, was dispatched to North Vietnam. Despite these efforts, the balance of power shifted as North Vietnam was unable to counter the military operations of South Vietnam and its allies.

**Secession of India from the Concordat Alliance:** Among the developments in the Concordat Alliance's timeline, the secession of India, a key member state, was a noteworthy incident. This marked the first instance of a nation formally withdrawing from the Alliance. This event signalled potential challenges to the Alliance's unity, subtly foreshadowing the complexities that would unfold in the future.

**Battle of Ramstein:** Conflict broke out between the armed forces of the Concordat Alliance and NATO. Initial conventional warfare led to significant losses for the Concordat, especially within their armoured tank divisions. A shift to guerrilla tactics, however, led to a NATO retreat, and the Concordat briefly secured the disputed territory. The situation escalated when news arrived of an attempted but unsuccessful NATO nuclear strike on the Ramstein base. Given the potential for a successful nuclear attack and without the capability for a nuclear response, the Concordat Alliance pursued and secured an armistice with NATO.

**Decline of the Concordat Alliance:** The Concordat Alliance witnessed a progressive loss of members over time. The Pan-Asian Union split from the Alliance, and finally the departure of the International Parliament of Neutral States (IPNS), the most substantial faction within the Alliance aside from the USSR, marked a critical turning point. This event significantly accelerated the decline of the Concordat Alliance, ultimately leaving the USSR as the sole remaining member.

**USSR's Transformation:** The USSR, the last standing member of the Concordat Alliance, pivots towards capitalism and democracy, liberalising its markets and democratising its government.

**NATO's Victory:** With the USSR's transformation, NATO emerges as the victorious bloc.

## Blocs

* North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)
* The Concordat Alliance
* The International Parliament of Neutral States (IPNS) later renamed to The Grand European Union

## Factions

* The United States of America
* The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
* The Imperial Federative Republic of Brazil
* Yugoslavia
* The Republic of Germany
* The German Democratic Republic
* The People's Republic of China
* The Union of Pan Asian Republics (UPAR)

## Bloc Leaders

An account of CW3 from the perspective of one of the leaders of the Concordat Alliance, General Secretary Wrenthen Mikhailov:

General Secretary Wrenthen Mikhailov