Globe War

**The Globe War** (or the **War for Indonesia** or the **Alliance-TDEI War**) was a war fought between the Dutch East Indies against the Grand Alliance, a coalition of multiple nations. With a total of 27 participating nations, it was the largest-scale war not only in the history of Earth World III, but in the entire history of Globecraft, and was also the first to implement the new war system. The war ended in a white peace.

## Background

Led by the newly elected Prime Minister Roo, the Dutch East Indies declared war on the Union of Libarya and the Phoenix, the culmination of long-standing geopolitical tension between the Dutch East Indies and the nations of North America, on the 26th of May 2023.

The next day, the Sublime Sultanate of the Turks declared war on the Germanic Kingdom of Alaska, with the Union of Nunaat and the Dutch East Indies siding with the Turks. Spiderduckpig, the leader of the nation of Sahul, volunteered for Alaska. The war ultimately ended in victory for the Turk/Dutch coalition. The Indies then attempted to turn Sahul into a Dutch vassal as a part of the peace treaty, but were unable to do so. The Indies subsequently sent an ultimatum to Sahul, threatening them become a vassal of the Indies from their own will or face war. That ultimatum was denied, leading to the Indies declaring war on Sahul.

Outraged by the declaration of war on the ULP and Sahul and resentful from months of continuous, unstopped Dutch expansion, a coalition of nations soon came together to form an Alliance, with the goal to defend the ULP and Sahul and put a decisive end to the Indies. The new Alliance eventually merged with the United Defense Front, another alliance of smaller nations made to resist Dutch expansionism, to form the Grand Alliance. Additionally, the Turks declared independence from the Indies after months of being a vassal.

On the 28th of May 2023, the Grand Alliance collectively declared war on the Dutch East Indies, merging the two wars together and officially starting the Globe War.

## Events

### **Java Raid**

Following a rally at the Great Pyramid in Al-Halal, the Grand Alliance launched their first preemptive raid into Dutch territory, making landfall on their capital Batavia, located on the island of Java. The Allied forces rallied again inside of the church there. Soon after, Dutch soldiers led by Commander Zilj appeared and began a counterattack, causing mass casualties on the Allied side and forcing the dispersion of Allied forces from the area. Allied and Dutch training forces continued dueling subsequently occurred throughout the Indonesian islands, until Zilj forced the Allies to fully retreat. Dutch forces amassed a total of 26 recorded kills, 23 of which were of Zilj's alone. The Allied forces, on the other hand, could only score one. Many in the Indies considered the raid a victory on their part.

        One notable event that occurred during the raid was the **escape of Travisbussin.** As the Allied soldiers dispersed from Java, Travisbussin was eventually left alone to fend for himself against six Dutch soldiers that had soon surrounded him near Sumatra. While the Dutch soldiers were equipped with Riptide tridents in the midst of torrential rain, Travisbussin only had a few ender pearls in his inventory. Even against these odds, Travisbussin successfully managed to escape with his life, outrunning the pursuing Dutch soldiers through the Sumatran jungle before escaping into the Indian Ocean. The evacuation greatly boosted morale within the Grand Alliance after earlier failures, hailed as a "Dunkirk moment."

### **Tokyo Raid**

Hours later, Dutch soldiers began a counteroffensive, traversing the Pacific and making landfall on Tokyo, the capital of the Shogunate of Japan. However, a small Alliance force consisting of Marovian soldier Mmewtwo and Siberian soldiers Zordar and Kerbnik successfully dispersed the Dutch soldiers with minimal losses. The event again greatly boosted morale within the Alliance.

### **The Occupation of The Indies**

The Occupation of the Indies took place on Sunday the 28th of May when Kerbnik, Velvas, Mmewtwo, and CN went to TDEI homeland and began to look around for Zilo to fight him. for a while Zilo could not be found so the invading force stayed at the TDEI capital until CN was ambushed by Zilo in New Guinea.

### War System Controversy

After many months of complaints from players over the unfair system of war, which allowed small nations to be picked on by larger nations and win with virtually no contest, the staff decided to make it a multiple choice system, allowing the defending nation to choose how the war is fought. Due to insufficient clarity in these rules, the Globe War was stalled. TDEI attempted to build capture points in haste during their allowed inactivity period, which was swiftly shut down by players and the mod team alike. On the 30th of May, 2023, an announcement was made, halting the war temporarily while the team ironed out the issues with system H4.

### USA-USSR Crisis

A crisis between two members of the Grand Alliance, the USA and the USSR, began on June 8 when the Democratic Republic of Turkey declared independence from the Ottomans, a vassal of USSR, and became a vassal of the USA in what may or may not have been a CIA plot. This caused the USSR to threaten war against the USA, threatening to throw the alliance into chaos. An agreement was negotiated by spiderduckpig where the two Turkeys would remain separate and both would be vassals of the USSR.

### Battle of Sahul

The first and only battle of the war took place on June 10, with Dutch forces invading Sahul's capture point. The Alliance texture pack was leaked to the Dutch by Tobla14, who had been spying on their behalf as a mole, causing confusion in the Alliance as Alliance members could not tell who was the enemy and who was their allies. Dutch forces dispersed the Grand Alliance forces, achieving a tactical victory. The Alliance then planned to fight only with their best players in the next battle in Shanghai, but this did not come to pass.

###### End of the War

Following a period of inactivity, Globecraft moderators officially ended the war on June 17, with no territorial gains or losses for either side.