Entente-Laconia War

The Entente-Laconia War is a war waged by the military alliance of The Entente against the nation of Laconia and its allies the Latvian Soccer Dogs.

Background
The Latvian Soccer Dogs (aka LSD) were an organization consisting of the nations of New Sovia, Adina, Nudist Beach, and Unitas, along with about a dozen individuals from various nations. On 7 September 2019, less than a week after the announcement of the new association, Soccer Dog fortifications in the Nudist Beach region of the southwest quadrant of the map were targeted by Entente and SATO forces, driven by a belief that this new association was simply a front for a new raiding crew. The primary evidence for this assault was out-of-context screenshots taken by a leaker in the Soccer Dogs' discord, apparently showing a plan to build a vault and then raid the city-state of Icenia, well known to be disliked by many Soccer Dogs. While LSD denied these accusations, by West Isle members own admission LSD had pledged possible support to an insurrection aimed at gaining West Isle independence from Icenia, though this remains a contested topic. , While the Icenian government publicly stated that it did not consider these threats to be serious, World Police still maintained their ground.

In the face of a hopelessly asymmetric war, the less militaristic of the Soccer Dog nations publicly pulled out of the group; importantly, Adina quit the association. Nudist Beach was completely flattened, and the leader of Unitas was prisonpearled by Hjaltland. The citizens of New Sovia buried their valuables and evacuated their city, many of them fleeing to the friendly arms of Laconia, being given shelter in the megafortress Mt. Doom.

Battle at Hotel California
Immediately following the 7 September attack on Hotel California, the leader of LSD, ashnwill, turned himself in to the Entente to avoid wasting time fighting an internet LEGO war and quit the server. He gave his friend FRESH_candy (a leader of Laconia) reinforcement-bypass permissions to the Hotel California vault pyramid, in order to make sure his fortune didn't go to waste. A few weeks later, on 28 September, Laconia decided the tensions had calmed enough to venture over to the vault site in Nudist Beach and attempt to tear down the vault pyramid. Intending to transport thousands of diamonds back home on a trek of 10km, a force of 13 men was brought to ensure the safe transport of the materials. There was no immediate response from Entente or others, which was expected given that it would be one less vault pyramid they didn't care for. However, on the way back, a joint contingent of Mir and Entente forces chased the Laconians, having waited for reinforcements. 6 Laconians were pearled, leading to a loss of ~700 diamonds. All of the Soccer Dogs in the Laconian force survived, except for Topher3001 who was exilepearled (but later freed by mistake). One Laconian leader, Tofee_Dodger, was also pearled.

Diplomacy breaks down
In the wake of this action, attempts were made by Laconia to contact Entente leadership and diplomatically resolve the incident. Entente offered no olive branch, and mostly had a policy of radio silence.

Attack on Mt. Doom


The war began in full swing on 5 October, when a force of 18 Entente fighters laid siege to Laconia's capital, Mt. Doom, with the stated aim of pearling Pirater, a Soccer Dog. Due to the recent loss of 6 fighters, one leader of Laconia being on vacation irl at the time, and the unexpectedness of the attack shortly after Laconia's attempts to find diplomatic common ground, only 4 fighters were immediately available to defend Mt. Doom, leading many to believe that this would be the end of Laconia's 2.5 year (to date) history on CivClassic. Despite this, the Entente forces were repelled in their original attack tunnel, a 5km show of wealth made of iron-reinforced obsidian, stretching all the way back to Hjaltland. They tried again with another attack bridge and were once again repelled.

In the aftermath of the attack, the Entente's attack tunnel was captured and disabled by Laconia, who began mustering forces to resist.

Counter-offensive against Hjaltland


Late on the night of 17 October, a Laconian force of 15 fighters built a skybridge to Hjaltland's south pole vault, known as Eternity, intending to disable it and prevent it being used as a staging location for attacks, given its proximity to Mt. Doom. They broke bastions undetected almost all the way to the center of the vault. Upon reaching a satisfactory point, they dropped to bedrock and began griefing with massive quantities of reinforced obsidian, being roughly 5,000 iron reinforced obsidian, and 10,000 stone reinforced obsidian. The Entente was unable to respond due to the suddenness of the attack and the odd hours, and the Laconian force finished their mission and returned to Mt. Doom completely unopposed.

This was a loss for the World Police, and a stark reminder that they are not untouchable.

Various other actions have been taken, such as the griefing of the "Colossus" trench - a derelict formerly-Channer town - in Hjaltland.

Battle of Mt Doom
On January 1st, and after many previous scouting missions by Mir, Mir forces began an attack on Mt.Doom. During this period Mir forces began building a small cobble stone area to utilize as their central hub for the siege of Mt Doom. For the first day this large cobbles stone bunker was expanded by Mir as Laconian's attempted to engage and stop them outside of their rings within the hole. After a couple hours of this Mir pulled back for the night to get some rest before trying again the next day. During this time Laconia attempted to add deference and build additional obstacles. The next day the second Mir attack, now joined by Entente, began on Mt Doom. The attackers now began a tunnel to breach Mt Doom rings starting from the cobblestone base Mir built the day before. During this Laconians attempted to unsuccessfully stop the attackers, but managed to hold out long enough allowing the attackers to break into the third ring. During the breaking of a tower built by the Laconians in the third ring, Diet_Cola was almost spleefed into a trap, but due to his previous knowledge of such situations, was able to escape and survive the trap. However, after the tower within the third ring was taken by MirTente forces, Ez2Clutch was pearled by Laconian forces while lagging out ontop of the tower. After this occuring a cease-fire was called and MirTente forces withdrew from the battle for the night. The following day, Entente did a small attack on Mt Doom without Mir help, but pulled off after an hour when met with Laconian resistance. Two hour later Entente forces returned to Mt Doom and broke the remaining rings and ground bunker uncontested by any Laconians, thus were able to finish disabling the hole of Mt Doom, and spent the remainder of the day building bridges and filling in portions of the hole with light Laconian interference. As a result of the spike being now unsecured in Mt Doom, and clear sign of potential of Ez2Clutch being freed, Laconian with help of NATO made an attempt to get the pearl to a NATO vault across the map. This attempt was successful. However on the return trip of reinforcements back to Mt Doom, three Laconian fighters were intercepted and pearled by MirTente forces. After breaching the ground bunker, MirTente forces made an incursion into Mt Doom, breaching the lower levels and getting within the lowest reinforced section of Mt Doom, the farming floor. During this breach few defenders were left standing trying to do what they could in the mountain. However, MirTente forces withdrew for the night to come back the next day and finish off the mountain. During this period, a few Laconians began removing all loot from the mountain and burning what was left, and trying to fill in the tunnel and reinforcing lower sections of the mountain. However this was futile as MirTente forces bridged the upper part of Mt Doom undefended, finally breaching the top of the mountain, becoming victorious in the Battle of Mt Doom. After four days of fighting from both sides Mt Doom was finally neutralized and MirTente forces began looting and neutralizing the site from further use. All Laconians relocated to a different area on the map and hope to one day return to Mt Doom.