Massive war, Poland vs. Northern States...

Here's the world right now.

For a long time the NUS and the SUS have been allies of mine (Poland), as well as Caucasus. Together, we managed to defeat a rival coalition of 5 players (I was assigned the hardest target - Sweden. I still have a log of my war progress somewhere else on the forum).

However, the alliance is falling apart. I somewhat expected this, since you can't win as a coalition and we need 3 remaining players to retire for our gold. So one must go...

My current economy is pretty strong, except that I have so many provinces (my provinces are mostly small) that they eat up all my food, and I'm doing desperate moves to balance my sheet. I've also got an essential monopoly on rare materials - I produce more than double per hour than what NUS, my competitor, has.

However, my rampant expansion has left my army in somewhat worn shape, and I still have a few cities running on level 1 industrial centers, plus plenty of damaged buildings. I have a massive backlog on repair work in conquered provinces...

My navy, which will be the likely instrument of war against NUS should we enter combat, is slightly inferior to his. I have engaged on a rampant destroyer-producing spam to counter his submarines, but his submarines are relatively high - leveled and numerous. As of right now I accompany all cruisers, battleships, and carriers with two destroyers. I have the advantage in carriers, of which I was the leader in the server - Kurwalinear Motion was the first carrier to come out in the server (and the first capital ship), Polska Pride came shortly after (following NUS' first battleship), and a third, Crack-kow, is slated to come online in a few hours (I've already prepared all the naval bombers required to load it).

Northern States has an army slightly smaller than mine, but his is relatively fresh. He's only had to fight 1 of our enemies (whereas I took on 2) and he's got a large sea that protects him, so he hasn't had to spend anything on fortifications. As a result, he's got large stacks of resources to draw from. His navy is also pretty sneaky - before we cut relations, I had intel of the location of at least 12 submarines (with a few more hidden among his destroyers). He also has more battleships (2, USS Kickass and USS Suck it, against my Dankhavetsky). However, his production is much lower than mine, and if I can survive his rampant production, I may be able to deplete his stocks. The challenge is surviving the initial onslaught.

Caucasus, my trustworthy and longtime ally, has fallen considerably from the former heights he attained. He once had the strongest land-based force in the server, but mismanagement has made him fall to 4th in the server - and in this situation, 4th means last (he's behind some NPCs). He didn't have a standing navy until recently, and currently he only has one submarine, two destroyers, a cruiser, and a battleship ("USS" Hondo Lane - wonder where the USA designation came from!). He's got heavy tanks and massive land-based stacks, but even Southie's pitifully small navy could defeat his and shut down his convoys.

Southern States ("Southie") is the relative Caucasus to NUS. It's got a pitifully weak navy as well (he lost to an NPC) and he has a very bad success rate at land invasions (he also lost to an NPC). However, he's recovered considerably to take over part of Egypt (with NUS assistance, of course). His navy, like NUS, consists of mostly submarines, but he has a higher ratio of destroyers as well. He also owns just one cruiser, and owns no capital ships. His land-based forces and his navy combine to give him only 60-ish units, but considering how much NUS adores him and donates units, he could be potentially dangerous to Caucasus. Especially with those submarines and his large stacks of stored Foreignade(TM).

There's one more active player left in the game, either Libya or Syria, but he's literally nothing (hasn't even bothered to conquer anything yet) and we hardly consider him a threat. As far as our spying goes, he doesn't have much industrial capacity either. He's not allied to anyone, although he considers the States a much larger threat and could potentially swing towards my side, although the States could probably crush him with just a few light tanks.

Thus the server stands.

This is the primary issue. NUS has, over Beirut, had quite an argument. SUS captured it but forgot to station a garrison, thus enabling the city to rebel and join Caucasus. SUS went crying to mama North and they're blaming it on a Caucasusian invasion. As such, NUS landed troops, took over the city, and is now sending smallish swarms at Caucasus' relatively undefended border (he's killing off NPC Russian Empire right now).

Caucasus employs a lot of slower-moving units (medium tanks, heavy tanks, railroad guns) and it would take too long to push his units back over, by which NUS might've made even more tanks or something.

Caucasus has appealed to me, as his powerful patron saint, to help him.

I gave NUS and SUS a 36-hour ultimatum to withdraw and hand back over Beirut, plus pay compensation (in the form of Food, of course). So far I have no response except for a message from NUS to "stay out of this". Except, of course, if Caucasus goes down, I'll have to face SUS and NUS alone, and Caucasus has saved me once or twice. So I can't stay out of it.

I'm currently at work kiling out Soviet and it'll be some time before I can swing full force to the invasion. To help, I've already sent Polska Pride (my second carrier), six destroyers, two submarines, and a cruiser to the northernmost Atlantic - if the ultimatum runs out, I'll come out and swing southward along his coast, and damage his dockyards and maybe even sink one of his battleships.

So yea. This thread's just going to be dedicated to the strategic situation at hand. If you guys have any suggestions about how to resolve the situation or kill off NUS, this is what the thread is about. I really don't have a good plan at the moment.