Vuori Kunin-Grrs wrote: especially in the wake of Gameplay's general stagnation and a decrease in invigorating action in NationStates.
You know, you've said this a couple times, but as far as I've seen, never actually elaborated in any way.
I do acknowledge that I have had limited, if any, military experience. I have indeed made serious mistakes starting out in NationStates. But through this experience, I've learned the hard way how to do things and how one do it properly, which is helping me now in many ways. With this, I ask that for all you nations out there: consider the following.*
Last I checked, making mistakes doesn't automatically teach you how to do it right. Just one of the ways to do it wrong.
Oroqus, clearly, is a very young and small region - it's rather inactive to host such an organization. However, unlike in CAIN, where Europeia basically leads the organization in relatively sluggish operations that lead offensives against founderless, vulnerable Nazi-affiliated regions (which is disputed, especially in the case of Femdom Empire) whose group environment requires, if not strongly encourages, the participation of all involved regions, the CAA will be decentralized, in where member regions take part in stealth operations against Nazi regions agreed on by an interregional referendum by the nations in those regions, and where certain regions in the organization can do different things than others. All regions will be of equal status, and instead of dealing with forum madness, the organization will be based on Discord. This allows for a much a efficient, and a much more progressively debilitating end to such Nazi appointed regions, allowing the Nazis to trust no one and destroy themselves from the inside out.
In doing large scale stealth operations, and possibly attrition runs as well, true Nazi regions can be worn down and eventually collapsed through the pressure from active intervention, and we don't have to deal with long-term, inefficient, and ultimately meaningless operations. Indeed, Nazis may resist these efforts, but what can they do? Blindly banject who they think is guilty? Done well enough, such stealth operations, with continuous persistence, will bring the end to Nazis.
Oh boy. A couple things.
One. Announcing to the member nations of multiple regions that you're doing a stealth operation somewhat defeats the point, which, unless I'm mistaken, is to be stealthy.
Two. The thing with forums is, they're excellent for record-keeping. As much as CAIN might be bogged down by bureaucracy at times, some amounts of it are necessary, and you're going to be hard-pressed to entirely avoid them.
Three. I find it somewhat amusing that you mention attrition runs, before denouncing other things as 'long-term, inefficient, and ultimately meaningless'. See, for an attrition run to have any real chance of changing things, you need to deal more influence damage than a delegate can recover in an update. And take off enough each time to actually wear not only a delegate's, but also any RO they may happen to assign's, influence down to the point where they're vulnerable enough to not be able to ban. And, once the regional influence has been ground down to a vulnerable level, have enough troops to actually take the region. The thing with attrition runs is that all they do is prevent banning from happening as easily. You still need the numbers in the end. In these kinds of proposed circumstances, the only thing more 'long-term, inefficient, and ultimately meaningless' would be complaining about the delegate on the RMB non-stop and hoping they get fed up and resign.
I'm not saying attrition runs don't have a place in certain circumstances, like keeping a newly-occupied delegacy unbalanced before they can build an influence base, but that's a very niche scenario.
The goal of CAIN is to strike down Nazi regions. The goal of CAA is to strike down Authoritarian regions, including Nazi regions. Though these goals are morally right, the methods in which they are worked towards in CAIN isn't exactly what I think we all wanted. For those who oppose or are neutral with CAIN, bringing down Nazis together before CAIN is the ultimate victory. For those who support CAIN: are you willing to try something new?
Make a call when CAA takes down a region using a combined updater force of 80+ people
For all your complaints about CAIN's inactivity and whatnot, they've actually done more than talk thus far.
