The History of Cities War (book)

A idea created by H. Stickmin Esq. Page created by Europep.

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Hey everyone. Stick here. Feel free to write whatever you want to write about. Please do not change other people's writings or vandalize this in any way. You are all commenters to check relevance. This is meant to tell stories from many people's point of views, so don't worry about contradictory information. It would be helpful if you could leave your in game username at the top of your writing, similar to willy's. Chapter number doesn't matter yet. I hold final say, but will hear all arguments. Thanks!

If you click command+enter, it creates a new page that cannot be moved about. That will help if multiple people try to edit. There should be enough pages for everyone. Feel free to pick whichever one you want.

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### SUMMARY

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(2020-11-02 Main Thematic Inspiration for this)

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I was thinking of writing a book.

This will try to emulate the style of the Heroes of Olympus series. It’s basically told by a 3rd person narrator, but they are not omnipotent. The focus shifts from character to character by chapters, telling the next part of the story from their point of view. It flows really well.

I know that it would be hard to do that with community contributions, and it will require a lot of editing, but I belieb it can be done. Please write in 1st person.

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(2022-02-13 at this point, i wont lol)

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Some parts may get over or under-told, but there will be a place for every side of every story.

Good luck and be respectful to you, others, and your stories.

I will move some of the pages around to try to keep a chronological order throughout the book. I have not yet decided whether I will edit on punctuation/grammar.

I will probably ask some people to split up their sections in order to make it flow better. This is nothing against you, just how I envision the styling of the book.

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Please put your player username at the top of each chapter you write.

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### I

##### willy

Loerm Ispum. Text is written. Stories are told. Records are kept.

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### III

##### H. Stickmin Esq

The day was March 16th, 2019. I was browsing Reddit, when I saw someone comment about an online war game calles Cities War. I do not remember which subreddit it was, or who made the comment, or what exactly it said, but I remember that it was a comment, not an advertisement. The first city I took was Columbus, Ohio, which was taken from me 9 hours later by TacoChewsday. I decided to join an alliance. NWO was the top alliance at the time, but I didn’t want to join the top. The N.S.T.C was the second place alliance at the time, I believe, so I applied. A day or two later, they let me in.

I can attribute the reason for me continuing to play this game to this time period. This was the peak of the NWO, and we fought like mad. Granted, they were not strong armies by today’s standards, but cities swapped hands. Much of this fighting took place along the St. Lawrence River in Eastern Canada. Other Midwestern cities like Detroit, Cleveland, and Chicago were taken and retaken by different sides. After a few weeks, I had taken both San Francisco and San Jose, which

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were the number 2 and 3 cities at that time, respectively. I was able to hold on to San Jose, but San Francisco was kept by those who would become my rivals in the year 2019, loued11 and Anayre. Anayre was the leader of the Arizonian Empire, and loued11 headed The Resistance.

The N.S.T.C was a small alliance during this time period. We had 6 members. Phoenix, the leader, and Octavian, who started the alliance together but grew inactive as the year went on. There was Mix, a friend of mine from school who was active for a week at most. CatsTie and another member were also inactive after a period of time. And then there was me. Sometime around September, leadership was transferred to me because of inactivity by Phoenix.

I probably only logged in 5-7 times that summer. I remember doing it at the local library, and seeing that I had maxed resources. That was when I learned about alliance rewards. Our capital during this time was Washington, D.C, which was owned by CatsTie. Also during this time, I changed my username from H. Stickmin Esq. to H. Stickmin Esq because Kahoot names only fit 15 characters. On October 19, I had 10,730,000 in value. Mind you, this was before the big cities buff that happened in the summer. Yet, even though I had San Jose, Paris, Melbourne, Brussels, Chicago, and Houston, I was still behind Loued in value, and the N.S.T.C was second in value to TR. I had 317 Abrams as my defense. Total. That wouldn’t even hold 1 of the cities listed above in

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today’s game. If I could go back in time, I would just build defense and put it in Melbourne. But I didn’t.

On October 22nd, I attacked Los Angeles, which was owned by Anaye, with what I believe to be 47 Abrams in an army that had around 12% attack bonus. Naturally, I lost. I did similar attacks over the coming weeks, none of which proved very successful. Because I was using my newly made Abrams as attack and not defense, that meant that I was very susceptible to attacks by other players. I was deafening Chicago, which had over 1 million value, with 26 Abrams. I lost Paris on November 1 to Loued, which he then held for the next 9 and ½ months. Because of this, on November 7, I started building M109’s which helped with the efficiency of my defence. They had 600 defence at this time, not the 530 it’s at today. Most of my defense was converted by the 13th.

One of the best moves, looking back on it, was taking Tokyo on the 21st of November. I then proceed to defend its 2,940,006 value with all of 77,400 defense points. 100 IQ play right there. In the weeks after that, I built up what would be my first M240 army against New York City, which was owned by deadshot. I won. This was enough to get me to 14,532,665 in value, a mark which has to be among the highest of all time. I decided to defend the Big Apple with 87,000 defence points, a large sum by my standards. Two weeks later, that was gone.

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In what would be a signal for times to come, two weeks to the day after I won NYC, on the 18th of December, I lost it in an attack to loued11. My records record that I changed my army name in my spreadsheet from 4th to NOOOOO. That same day, I also lost Brussels in a separate attack 9 hours later to a player named rocksteady, a newcomer to the game. I would never reach that value again.

I spent the next few weeks recuperating from that loss. I took NYC back on the 4th of January, but I lost Chicago on the 2nd to Great Plains Nation, a new member of The Resistance. There was definitely more activity during this time period than in previous months, which I can only attribute to Reddit advertisements. Tensions were rising, but suddenly, everything changed.

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### IV

##### H. Stickmin Esq

On January 1, 2020, willy made what I consider to be the most important update in the history of Cities War. That update was the adding of the world chat. Before this, you had basically no way to communicate with players who were not in your alliance. Now, it was possible to see which players were active, and to talk with them about

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### V

##### Lubec

          "Our new constitution  is now established, everything in this world  seems to promise it will be durable; , but in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes."-Ben Franklin

          I would personally say I am one of the worst Cities War players out there. But being good at a game doesn"t equate to having fun. When I joined Cities War, it was a flurry of activity, being 2 days after the drewsades. When I first came on , this player called      Canadian\_Republicansa asked me if I wanted to join the alliance  they just made so I agreed. This alliance was called N.A.T.O.

       N.A.T.O, like every alliance, started out small , with me, Canadian and Ifitis being the founding members. Over the next couple days, other players joined such as Mask, ComradeRaul, Tempestaxolotl and Mr.China. We quickly rose through the ranks over the next couple days, and owned cities such as Halifax,Zhangjiakou, Rostov-On-Don,Barranquilla and Guadalajara

         After acquiring a bit of value, we realized we needed a capital, and a few ideas were thrown around like Barannquilla, Charlottetown, Rostov and some more. We eventually

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decided on Rostov. But mere hours after setting the capital, it was captured by Toniboi from the alliance S.I.F. At some point we also made a reddit(r/cwnato). After briefly setting the capital as Zhangjiakou, we reached likely our highest point at 7th place on the value leaderboards.But then some problems emerged.                                                                  N.A.T.O was probably doomed from the start, mainly due to our love of nuking others’ cities and getting into fights we weren't  ready for. We also started losing members because we were inside other alliance territory, such as ComradeRaul leaving for N.S.T.C. We were also constantly at war, such as in the city of Guadalajara, where Tempestaxolotl and Kaiser and others fought for weeks. Bit by bit, our alliance started collapsing and members started leaving en masse. And all I could do is watch as we crumbled, and blame it on myself for being too aggressive. All those threats  of nukes, and taking cities, was it really worth it? I may never know, but since the N.A.T.O was crippled, I decided to leave. I came back occasionally  to visit, and saw N.A.T.O decline further, rename to Greater Entente, and then finally once Canadian left and joined N.S.T.C, N.A.T.O was finally put to rest.

      If you search in the alliances tab, you can still find Greater Entente ,but with 0 cities. Maybe someday the great alliance  of N.A.T.O will return…

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**Lubec**

##### A Tale of Two Cities

       In a game called Cities War, the cities are obviously  one of the most important parts. So I am going to tell a few cities with grand battles and their stories.

###### Oakland

          In Oakland myself and Caterr fought a great war over many weeks, in which no true winner was determined. I took Oakland 5 times, and Caterr took it back 5 times. Caterr also nuked it many times. To this day Oakland is still fought over by people such as Famousplan. Later now, Oakland is a border in The Resistance. Further now in the future, Oakland is Caterr’s once more.

###### Guadalajara

    Now you may think a city that has lied in TBS territory for most of the time since the drewsades does"nt have a story but here we go. Guadalajara was fought over by Tempestaxolotl, for many months, with them fighting players such as Kaiser and NotSoFast. From June 15th to July 29th, Tempestaxolotl  took Guadalajara SIXTEEN times. In present day I am not

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sure why Tempestaxolotl hasn"t been given the city  , due to them being in The Resistance who owns Guadalajara inside their territory, but maybe one day, the city will finally be returned  to it"s rightful  owner. Also I once took the city and tried to get it returned to Tempest during the great schism of TBS but it was attacked hours after I took it so no transfer happened.

Lubec

My theory  as to my general gameplay behaviour on Cities War is that if you are patient, you win. It’s simple as that, and to be honest this isn’t really a theory, it has been proven that attacking is worse than defending.

It"s just because I started out in an aggressive  alliance guys I swear.

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##### Toilet Leader

“CitiesWar is like anti-depressants. You can use it to cure depression, but a possible side effect is even more depression” - Toilet Leader

###### History of Sticklandia

**Part I - The Beginning of Sticklandia**

At the time of writing, I am the leader of Cumega and have not a good relationship with Famous Plan, who’s now the leader of Sticklandia. Just a few months ago, we were “friends” and I created the alliance of Stick Nation (later renamed Sticklandia) with Famous Plan. But what many of you may not know is that the history and hatred (and love) of Sticklandia existed long before the Drewsades.

In 5th Grade, when Famous and I were in the same class, our class created the micronation “Stick Nation” as a joke. The skinnier you were, the higher your rank in the micronation. Here are the ranks in order from skinniest to fattest: King Stick, Prince Stick, General Stick, Stick Nation Citizen (all those whose BMI is below the 50th percentile), Tree (those who are not below the 50th percentile, but are tall, so they don’t look fat), and Potato (all those whose BMI is above the 50th percentile and are not trees).

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Famous Plan was the skinniest, so he was King Stick. I was 5th skinniest at the time of its creation, I was just a Stick Nation Citizen. The problem with the system was that if someone became fatter or skinnier, they still held their same position unless someone of a higher rank leaves the class.

It evolved from a joke to a feudal system. Potatoes were constantly “bullied” as a joke (we were all actually good). That continued for as long as Famous was in the same school as all of us.

**Part II - Creating my First Micronation; Saylam**

As I was not a big figure in Stick Nation, I decided to create my own micronation. I was inspired by the book called “How to Build Your Own Country” by Valerie Wyatt, which I borrowed from the Edmonton Public Library (EPL). In the book, there was a specific micronation that made me raise an eyebrow; the Kingdom of Talossa.

Talossa was founded by then 14-year-old Robert Ben Maddison of Milwaukee in his bedroom. He just straight up said his bedroom is a new country and he owns it. So, that’s what I did with my first micronation too, I declared my bedroom, and at the time, backyard, my own micronation.

So, I went through instructions in the book by Valerie Wyatt, and made my new micronation, “Saylam”. I had

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recruited 6 citizens and officially declared independence on August 13, 2018.

I was on a good start. I made my own flag, coat of arms, currency, passports, government, provinces, constitution, etc. A few months later, my parents found out and asked me what this bullshit was. I had no courage to tell them that I had decided to declare my bedroom and our backyard as an independent country, so I stayed silent. Yep you can guess what happened next…

They threw all my documents and such in the recycling. It was all gone. I told all my citizens that we were disassembled.

**Part III - Stick Nation After Famous**

In Part I, I said that “That continued for as long as Famous was in the same school as all of us,” Well, what has changed after he left? I’ll tell you here.

So, once he left, everyone’s ranks went up. But just before Famous left, I became the 4th skinniest person from 5th. Which means that I became the 3rd skinniest person and should become General Stick.

But the original 4th skinniest person became General Stick. Soon, the higher ranks realized that I was skinnier than the current General Stick. As mentioned before, ranks cannot be changed even when someone gets skinnier or fatter than another. (The reason for that is simply they didn’t want to hurt the feelings of the person whose rank would have gone down).

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To fix this problem, the new King and Prince Sticks made me “Secretive” General Stick. I was the official General Stick, but it was a secret. The General Stick everyone else knew still kept his role. And I was fine with that… but it soon turns out that someone else wasn’t...

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##### Hyperhero2

The first time I stumbled upon this game was from a reddit ad, talking about this new game called CitiesWar. Until then, I had usually got ads I just straight out ignored because they were for things I never would have used. This was different though. I like playing games, and this new game that seemed exciting to me was pretty good. So, I joined in the beginning of March 2020, and found a nice game, if not a little empty. There were no satellites, army boosts or evaluations. I was even there before the levelling system and alliance roles (Captain, General etc.). New Zealand was my starting point, and the first place I took was my hometown with about 50 m16 rifles on the 16th of March 2020. At the time New Zealand only had 8 cities (Invercargill, Dunedin, Christchurch, Wellington, Napier-Hastings, Tauranga, Hamilton and Auckland) compared to the 28 cities it has today. When I took it, I realised “maybe I’ll enjoy this game”. Over the next few days I continued to build resources and took a few more cities using only basic troops, because I didn’t know that some troops were much better than others. About three days into me playing, I received a DM from Sir Nils Olav, asking me to join N.S.T.C., one of the top 3 alliances of that time. At first, I refused, because I wanted to take it on my own and create my

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own alliance. I invited a few friends to the game and they really enjoyed it too, so I thought we could make an alliance together and hold all of New Zealand. The next day, H. Stickmin Esq. sent me a DM, asking me to reconsider and join N.S.T.C. with him. They needed people in Oceania, and I just so happened to be a person who was there. I joined the alliance and began taking cities in both Australia and New Zealand. I think my proudest point during this time was holding Perth for a month before JoseyXIII took it. The main people I had to worry about then were The Resistance, United Nations, The Beliebers (haha) and The Black Sun. Over this time, new cities were beginning to be added to Australia and New Zealand, and I thought it would be a good thing to get those. So I did. Once, I held 7 cities in New Zealand and my friend UnstoppablePhoenix (who now no longer plays the game) held almost all of the rest. The only other person I really had to deal with was (insert) and meiswys, who helped me to farm some places for attack and defence %. On the 14th of May 2020, coincidentally around the same time alliance territory resources were introduced, N.S.T.C started planning for a big war, and I was involved in it. At this time, me, along with a few N.S.T.C. players were driven out of Australia by The Black Sun and V. They built a territory basically covering the entirety of Australia and New Zealand, and we wanted to get rid of that. My goal in that attack was to clear ImmaStealYourWives’s cities in Northern Australia and Alice

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Springs, and hope that this multi-pronged attack significantly reduced their defences. Well, safe to say it did work. We had a territory in Australia that stretched all the way to McMurdo Station.

However, all good things must come to an end, and sometimes, it take a while. The first sign of attack was Darcy1234, who was in this new alliance called The Overseers. It seemed at the time that they were teaming up with JoseyXIII, as he would attack, and suddenly an Overseers person would be in that city. I even wrote a huge thing in our discord about how losing all of these cities pretty quickly was disheartening. Then came along something pretty cool: the CitiesWar lottery. Suddenly, there was an easier way to get gems, and all you had to do was wager 10 for the chance to win up to 120. I had the privilege of winning 7 times in the

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first 45 draws, including one point where I won 5 times in the span of 7 days. At the time of the 68th draw, the prize was 126 gems. This all changed rapidly almost overnight with an event I like to call “The Drew Durnil Invasion”. I had only learnt about this after the fact, but Drew Durnil made a video about CitiesWar, and suddenly there was a whole heap of players joining, almost too quickly. They formed alliances called Drewsaders 1, 2, 3 and 4 due to how many people were joining, and just overall you could see a giant wave of yellow “(name) has joined the game”. A message you posted in world chat would be gone in 5 minutes. The first lottery draw that day had 420 gems won (700 total). The day after that it ballooned to 624 gems won (1040 total). Up until the end of the lottery tracking spreadsheet I had, the amount of gems won never dipped below 160. This was also around the time that the multi-accounting was getting out of hand, and as such the ip block was implemented. Because of this, I was unable to log in for a couple of days due to it thinking I was using a multi-account, and that was the end of the CitiesWar lottery spreadsheet. It was also the end of a big drive for me. I would log in everyday to check up on troops and see what was happening, but me being locked out really crushed that drive. Ever since then, I've played CitiesWar less and less. Alliances rise and fall, but so do the players. People I’ve seen a lot on the game disappeared and left, and soon, I might be one of them. I still try and keep it alive with two servers: the

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(un)official CitiesWar server, which I help to moderate, and our N.S.T.C. alliance server. I don’t talk a lot on them, and those will be left eventually. I hope that even when i’m gone, my legacy will still live on with the older players: me winning the lottery many times in a row, the absurdly large country I have and random appearances in world chat. H Stickmin Esq., thanks for introducing me to your alliance and keeping me engaged with conversations about things like how our countries were doing with COVID. Christian, thanks for also asking me to join. I don’t think my experience would have been nearly as enjoyable without you two. Also thanks to TubularTOUCAN, The Eye, Pakistan, SoloRoo and BakaBento for helping with the experience as well.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

- The Dalai Lama

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##### AndrewEWiggin

“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”- Ernest Hemmingway

The month was February of 2020. I was browsing through political online games, when I found citieswar.com. I do not remember exactly what I searched, but it sufficed. I had, in front of my eyes, one of the best browser games in history. I hadn’t given much thought or time to the game, or the fact that I started in Sudan. I had decided after much thought to join whichever alliance called to me, and I finally decided on The Overseers after conversing with a few of their members. Their leader, The Eye let me in and I supported the alliance in various ways. Later, around March I had been productive with my gem hunts and amassed a surplus of gems. That surplus has always stayed with me to a degree and I currently have around 800 as I am writing this. As the hours turned into days and the days into weeks, I had turned into quite a formidable player, amassing artillery and tanks and whatnot. In April,

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those gems had paid off, as I relocated to Israel and that is where I would stay till a week after the Overseer-Sakura war. (gn)

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### XIV

##### Rawr?

“Citieswar is a story and I am just a chapter. I told my story and made my legacy.” -ComradeRaul

“Citieswar is just a game, I can make change in the world.” -HAL

Actions are acted

History is noted

Memories are remembered

But the wrath of time withers all

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##### bmp15

       I first found the game of citieswar while browsing a bunch of random subreddits, on April 29th, 2020. When I had first logged into the game, a player by the username of rocksteady messaged me, asking me to join his alliance called V. I, being new to the game, and in need of a teacher, accepted his offer and joined the alliance. I placed my first camp in New Hampshire, outside of my hometown that wasn’t added to the game yet. I learned a bit throughout the following weeks, taking my first city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and building what I thought were strong armies. On May 15th, 2020, rocksteady left the game because of the alliance territories update. The leadership of V was passed on a few times, and ended up in the hands of Kvsh, who renamed V to The Black Sun. I left the alliance the day after.

       I searched for a new alliance, and for some reason, I joined The BELIEBers. I swiftly became a co-leader in the alliance, as we desperately needed anyone who was online to be prepared to set a territory. I had left soon after as I had nothing to contribute in the alliance. Then, the drewsades happened.

        Everything was a mess. There were new alliances popping up every second, and the world chat would be full of

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drew spam for some time. I had no alliance, and I begged in world chat for an og alliance to let me in. Josey XIII let me into The Resistance for a reason I still don’t know, and I’m still grateful, as The Resistance is thriving and so am I. A week or two after I had joined The Resistance, other members and I were ordered to attack as many N.S.T.C cities in Italy as we could. I had used my three armies of one-hundred BM21’s on Vatican City, thinking it’d be enough to destroy the hundreds of Abrams that simonvic had. I had destroyed roughly two-hundred thirty of his Abrams. Eventually, The Resistance achieved its goal of pushing N.S.T.C out of Europe, destroying its value. The day after, willy re-evaluated the values of the top cities, bringing N.S.T.C back up the ranks. N.S.T.C would quietly build for quite some time.

        After this, I began building as much defense as I could, getting an army to 400k hitpoints. I was then added to a channel in The Resistance’s discord, called operation fosters. We were going to be attacking the newly founded ANZAC Federation, who took our previous holdings in Australia. My job was to secure the top city of Perth, a city that was my crown jewel for quite some time. The operation was a major success, with ANZAC being completely cleared in around five to ten minutes. ANZAC made a small counterattack, but nothing that we couldn’t handle. We went quiet for quite some time, and I built my first maxed defense army in Perth. A few

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weeks and another half maxed defense army later, I was asked by Josey XIII to join his new alliance, Bad Boys Club.

        The goal of Bad Boys Club was to make the game more interesting, as everyone had been dormant for quite some time. We got a few members of former Nova, and ANZAC. When we first prepared our operation, we planned on taking Hong Kong, Singapore, Jakarta, and Kuala Lumpur from N.S.T.C, and San Francisco from The Black Sun. The first operation worked well, and Bad Boys Club had a mega-sized territory. This territory would not last long, because we had made the grave mistake of attacking two large opponents at once. N.S.T.C and The Black Sun each retaliated with menacing attacks, crumbling our borders on many different occasions. Bad Boys Club made one last-ditch effort, popping each of their borders, and stationing large defenses so they couldn’t be placed back up (my maxed army from Perth was put in The Black Sun’s territory). Josey tried to negotiate terms for a Non-Aggression Pact with each, but had failed, and both my defenses in The Black Sun’s territory, and egenjuusto’s defenses in N.S.T.C’s territory, were crushed. Bad Boys Club had disbanded shortly after.

        After this, I made my own alliance in South East Asia that lasted all of five days. I called it the S.S.T.C, and I was allied with both the N.S.T.C and The Resistance. I disbanded due to the amount of cities in my planned territory, it was

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nearly impossible to clear by myself. I rejoined The Resistance shortly after disbanding S.S.T.C.

        The Resistance had rising tensions with just about every alliance in the game, excluding its newly found ally ANZAC, and its long time ally The Sakura Pact. The Resistance was attacked by many alliances at once, causing it to have borders fall many times, and build in secrecy for a long time. We had all left for different alliances to rebuild, while SirCallumOfRoslin held the leader spot so we wouldn’t lose our level five alliance. In our time of rebuilding, I had considered leaving the game, and almost did. I eventually came to my senses, and continued to play.

        I made yet another alliance, this time primarily focused in Quebec, Canada, and called it Borealia. This alliance was much more successful than S.S.T.C, as I had a territory of over six-million kilometers square. I managed to build a maxed defense army there. Eventually I disbanded, because I had trouble recruiting new members. I then joined multiple alliances, taking the once extremely large Hulunbuir, in the process. With Hulunbuir, I built two more maxed armies, for a total of three maxed armies.

        I built in silence with Hulunbuir for quite some time, until October, where I was notified by Josey XIII that The Resistance would be coming back, and would be hi-jacking The Black Sun’s territory. I was very excited, as I had built tons of defense, and a half-maxed attack army. The Sakura

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Pact and The ANZAC Federation attacked The Black Sun, severely weakening them to the point of near-death. Then, on October 28th, we successfully hi-jacked the territory, with I defending the border city of New York, and also holding multiple major cities such as Philadelphia, Washington DC, Miami, Baltimore, and Charlotte. All of these cities put me into the number one spot on the leaderboard, that I still hold today.

(Now at current times)

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### XVII

##### qR

I joined in March 8th 2020. I set a camp near my hometown in Texas and tried to read the Reddit guides. At that time, a dude named rocksteady asked if I could join the alliance V. 5 minutes later Stickmin, leader of N.S.T.C, also asked me to join. The Resistance was first then, with either NTSC or V which I joined at second and third with UN at a close 4th. After observing my progress, a major co-leader known as Kvsh gave me Dallas. It was my first “big” city in the game. I started growing around the southern U.S, especially Texas tops. During this time, all my armies were t-90ms spam.

Not long after, I started pushing my way further, mostly down towards the Carribean. I was able to gain large cities such as Bogota and Mexico City. Eventually I got bored and I ended up leaving all my cities in Latin America by early April.

The reason I left the Americas is so I could relocate. Keep in mind this was before the territories update, so you could take literally any cities anywhere.  Europe was super crowded so I tried Asia. I moved to India as there were only a couple of occupied cities there, with big cities like Mumbai weakly defended or left open. I still struggled there for nearly a month as NSTC members relentlessly sweeped my South Asian cities every day. After a month I moved again to China.

China was a battle royale. There were a couple dominant forces such as AndyG but it was still very chaotic. Many large cities such as Guangzhou and Nanjing remained open for long periods of time, so it was easy for me to get poorly defended and open large cities. Keeping them was the hard part. Kvsh had also moved with me to China, and we both concluded that we were wasting more resources than we were getting.

I immediately moved to the Rust Belt of the United States , which was heavily contested for with NSTC, V, Soviet Union, the Beliebers, and The Resistance to the East. I immediately got knocked down by NSTC, leaving me with no resources, cities,

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armies, weapons. I had literally nothing so I stopped playing for about a week or so.

As soon as I came back in later May, I was surprised. So much had happened. The territories update which Willy hinted at on Reddit finally came out. NSTC was looking dominant as ever with nearly total control of China and Africa under their new territory. I was kicked for lack of cities and inactivity from V, and Rocksteady had changed name went afk. Kvsh took charge and V was renamed to The Black Sun. Our capital was moved from San Francisco to Buenos Aires.

I began t-90ms spam through Texas starting with Dallas. Co-leader ImmaStealYourWives said he would leave for The Resistance. The Beliebers had a messed up territory in Texas so I took it out, conquering Austin and San Antonio. After that, I battled NSTC. Beliebers managed to take Canada, and we became the biggest territory. Just then...

The Drewsade brought a ton of new alliances to the game. Most notably Nova America, Anzac, Sakura Pact, etc. At the same time BoiledHotdogs in The Beliebers started a mutiny with Toucan, forming the Siberian Empire with his buddies. We enjoyed popping their border a lot.

At this point in the game, I didn’t pay attention as much. I was able to get Philadelphia, D.C., Toronto, and Los Angeles which boosted my value crazy, allowing me to reach 7.6m value and putting me at #2 spot. After the valuation update Philly became worthless and Toronto was ceded to TubularToucan. I remained with those 3 Texas cities for a long time.

A lot of events happened in the mean time, such as the rise and fall of Nova Asia, massacre of Anzac, BBC, TR raids on NSTC, and the clusterfuck of territories and drewsader alliances, the Hawaii wars, etc. I didn't pay attention again until Nova America had collapsed.

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### XVIII

##### starbucksiswrong

June 12, 2020. Drew Durnil releases his video on CitiesWar, he had previously streamed it but I did not watch it as it was initially an EU4 stream. I joined upon the release of the video like many others to become a part of the Drewsade.

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### XIX

##### Baxter49

Long ago, when you could alliance-hop to receive multiple rewards each day, Nova created a branch known as Western Nova led by a player named Brownie. This is the story of Cascadia.

I joined Western Nova in June of 2020 after a friend told me about the game. I set my name to Baxter49 because the game looked pretty dumb and I didn’t think I’d stick around long. For a long time I’ve thought Baxter is a comedic name, it sounds like a silly dog or something. I kind of wish it wasn’t what I’d gone with, but that’s what people know me as now so there’s no going back. Anyways, my friend was in Sticklandia at the time, and I just wanted to mess with him which is why I joined the other alliance in western North America. I really wasn’t taking the game seriously. We constantly had non-aggression agreements with the “Sticks” as we called them, and so I was unable to do anything against that friend of mine, but I was able to pick up more or less how to play and I worked my way up to the rank of General after successfully capturing and holding the city of Seattle.

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Things really kicked off when the developer, willyBBC, decided to patch out the exploit that had resulted in Western Nova existing. Nova America asked us to rejoin them, however Brownie said no as several players within the alliance had been pissing him off. I faced a lot of pressure from the Americans, who threatened to take my cities if I didn’t leave Western Nova, but I stuck with Brownie. We began plans to separate from Nova permanently. Nova held a vote in their own discord without consulting our members on whether or not we would be merging, and the vote passed. They tried to use this to legitimize the merger, but we merged with Sticklandia instead, taking the majority of their members. Some did not follow and instead went to a new alliance, True North. It was small, but had a lot of good players: Peg City Soldier, Tom Ganks, and Yeshua to name a few. We began to speak with them about a second merger.

They hated Nova, and did not want to be associated with it. Luckily we were on our way out, and so Cascadia was born. We had an election for a new leader and Brownie won. He kept peace with the Americans who were concerned with a plan to attack the Black Sun, and sent us their strategy which involved pushing TBS back to Mexico. We were supposed to be responsible for taking over California. I disliked the Black Sun at the time because one of their players, furinick would farm my cities from time to time, however after we got a

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non-aggression pact with them my views changed. Because of this treaty we did not take part in Nova America’s plan against TBS, and they got wiped off the map.

This was the golden age of Cascadia, a time of eastward expansion and relative safety. There was one disgruntled Sticklandia member who had refused to merge, a fellow who went by the name of FamousPlan, who began to use glitches to take down our border. It was annoying and hindered progress, but we were still fine at this point. I decided to try and build up my attack army and farmed a bunch of cities in California that belonged to a player named Caterr who spammed random polish into my pm’s. I later felt bad about this cause once I talked to him I discovered he was a nice guy, and so I stopped building offensive equipment, instead building nothing but M109s. From then on I was a peaceful player, and I haven’t taken someone else’s city in a very long time.

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Yeshua quit the game after getting bored, and then in September 2020 all hell broke loose. My new border at Madison, Wisconsin got attacked by two large Sticklandia armies, but held. For this Brownie promoted me to co-leader. I hadn’t had time to properly build it up, but that was their main attack. ReedyTurnip, who’d been responsible for the attack, sent me a pm that simply read “gg bro”. In our discord Brownie and SvenBiscuit celebrated a successful defense against Sticklandia.

About 6 hours later hhlel, another Stick, attacked Madison and it fell. I got on for the first time that day shortly after, and I have always wondered if things would’ve gone differently if I’d have been able to fortify Madison in between the attacks. Without our border Kim Jong John, Sticklandia,

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and the New California Republic went about wiping every poorly defended Cascadian city we had, and there were a lot. I did alright out of this, and I remember Kim saying in world chat: “Baxter surprisingly defends.” My alliance, unfortunately, has never recovered. I later made peace with Kim and we’re now best friends. And Pakistan From NSTC arranged peace between New Califorian Republic and Cascadia.

We lost Peg City Soldier during that time, and many less important members ended up leaving. I got a lot of messages asking me to leave Cascadia for other alliances, but once again I stuck with my teammates. Brownie went semi-inactive which led to me trying my hand at diplomacy and getting a bit more of a reputation with other players outside NA. Some people came across as extremely likeable, and it was during this time that I created my list of personal NAP’s keeping track of everyone who I think is especially cool and who I swear to never screw over.

A lot of time passed before we set up the border again, and then the Black Sun died. This has been very bad for us as TBS tolerated our presence but the Resistance has been less open to diplomacy. I hope that Cascadia can continue to exist in some capacity, but only time will tell.

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I’ve been distracting myself from Cascadia’s probable doom by writing in a newspaper column for the CitiesWar Chronicle, the #1 Best Rated publication on Discord. My branch is called ICNE: Baxter49 and Josey XIII’s Incredibly Credible News Network. I was able to get this column because Josey publicly supported me. I leveraged that support to pressure BigALL, a head of staff at the Chronicle, into giving me my own semi-independent column, threatening that I would make my own newspaper and share the link in world chat if he didn’t. So far ICNE has been doing very well. Josey XIII has been very supportive, and the readers seem to like it too. I have even gotten specially mentioned by lolseres and sour cherry, so I think it’s safe to say that BigALL has made the right call in hiring me.

I hope you have enjoyed my story. This is Baxter49, pacifist, conspiracy theorist, gossipier, and unironic Cascadian separatist, signing off.

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### XX

##### PATAF EQUITES/HAMES-

What’s up guys, I am definitely bad at citieswar, and it feels cool to be writing with all these pros. I have nothing else to do right now, so I might as well do this. I started the game when a friend recommended it to me. I named myself PATAF Equities and then fell in love with the game. At first, I didn't know what I was doing, and I took a small city called Odense in Denmark. Which was in Resistance territory. I was completely annihilated by a couple of people who were trying to get atk boosts in the TR. A couple of other people were like this, including the Sachse, and he dmed fortunately and asked if I wanted to join his alliance called UER. I said sure and took some minor cities in Ukraine like Poltava and Voronezh. It was so fun being in that alliance, as we were the underdogs and kept getting repeatedly attacked. I moved up in the ranks as the Sachse promoted me. I also had the pleasure of holding a border city for some time. I remember being promoted to captain then general. I also remember DearDearAnushiwhois (or something like that,

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I cant remember exactly, who is now Nerfnaut, who gave me the city of Dickson in Russia. I thought 127k city was amazing, as my cities in the beginning had all sucked. Unfortunately around that point, I was kicked from the game, because I tried to get my brother to join, but they counted that as alting :)

So now, I join back as Hames-. So much has changed since that point. I was fortunate enough to be accepted into Europa and now The Resistance!

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### XXI

##### Vn123

It was September 16th, 2021. Yes, I am pretty new compared to other players in the game. I settled in Vancouver, and took pretty much anything I can find, including some of Vancouver's suburbs and Kelowna. I tried to attack a player named Olympic Union, but since I was not phone-verified, I couldn’t attack. The closest alliance to me at that time was Cascadia, I sent a request to join but no reply. Seemed like they denied it.

Then shortly after, Cascadia fell. I was shocked. I learned from other players that Cascadia and The Resistance had 2 wars, but TR was basically the winner, after the 2nd war (which TR won), Cascadia couldn't build up anymore and collapsed. Then, I started capturing cities to level up, and soon found an alliance called White Dove Pact. I invited players to join, but all of them were inactive. At least Lubec also joined, but left. White Dove Pact and an alliance called Mexican Legion, led by a player called VolunteerMapper merged, to become The Principality. At first we settled in Michigan, but King of the North and TR players attacked us a lot of times, so we traveled west

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to the prairies. But when the Mexican Legion leader left the game, the alliance became really inactive. We made territory in the prairies and allied with BC Ferries, led by Baxter49 and FoilFlipper at the time. However, I disbanded the alliance on October 1st and joined BC Ferries, for too many inactive players.

I joined but left very soon, to join Imperium Lechii, created by Lukasz Joniak 1. He taught me many things, and we cooperate together. We merged with the revived U.E.R. with Meow as leader and Lukasz as Co-Leader, but I didn’t have any ranks. I left, but soon joined again, and the third time as well.

At this point, I became a nomad and took top cities around the world. Then I joined V to build up and farm gems. I was resting but suddenly 501st Legion with legassassin1234 as leader attacked V and wiped many cities, including my 2 top cities, Hamburg and Cologne. But my built-up armies soon returned to camp for safety. Then here comes the famous Battle of Essen.

I quickly took my strongest attack army and joined with V members to participate in the battle. It was a true

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battle, with many people being trapped and trapped each other. I was the only one to survive the battle, with Starfe (named KIMEE6) trying to trap me but couldn’t. I defeated legassassin1234 with the army and left after Starfe failed to trap me. I felt like I participated in a true battle.

But still, V collapsed, which later built up and revived. I left and made the Vietnam alliance, along with MrTup and qwe. We made territory in Northern Vietnam, but because Hanoi was a mess, we moved to central and south Vietnam, with qwe attacking Ho Chi Minh City. However, DIYSlinky sent me a message to leave Vietnam. I made a grave mistake by mistaking the one who I was supposed to talk to with someone else. So he attacked qwe’s city but I soon left Vietnam. Anyways, qwe was pretty angry and left the alliance. We initially thought that we should settle in Australia, but MrTup argued that we should settle in Central Asia instead. I agreed. We built territories there and chilled for a while, but soon an alliance called The BELIEBers took our capital. We rebuilt once again and made a deal to an alliance called N.S.T.C not to settle below Dushanbe.

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We are still making plans and stuff, but for now we will stay in Central Asia.

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Added later, as a extension in this wiki, so players add your story here if you want. (Europep 2023-07-30)

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##### Janirland

###### Before Establishing the Noob Realms

I joined sometime in 2021 , after a friend of mine introduced me to Cities war. My first camp was located in Hainan Island at the time there were 2 Sakura Pacts fighting a civil war , i recall attacking a Sakura pact member and getting wiped completely multiple times, so i decided to shift my camp to Mongolia where it still remains today, I joined the UER and remained there for quite sometime until NSTC and couple other alliances launched a war against the UER. We were losing and i suggested migrating to Scotland which was empty at the time, i also took a couple of cities in Scotland , turns out this was a stupid idea cause the Northern Empire / Albion people were pissed and i got kicked out of the UER. Afterwards i joined a couple of alliances including Pakistan's alliance Punjab Caliphate.

### XXIII

Hey Hey people
Amatsuyu here or you might know me as Angelina.
I first joined around June 14 2020 2 days after drew post a video about cities war and luckily I was looking for an alternative game for other strategy games I've been playing
I randomly attack multiple cities in Tokyo which prompted kobutori to attack me which is in the V alliance.
After my 1 week carnage, vivid messaged me if I want to join sakura pact which is where I'm based in so I just hop in not knowing I'll stay playing this game even tho I did 2 consecutive hiatus until July 2023 where I came back indefinitely
Although, I miss the moment where there's a flurry of activity around the corner
Everyone is just active.