Jungle Gazette: NAME THE WAR!!!

UnOrthOdOx · July 28, 2002, 20:47

That's right, the war is over, now is your chance to give it a name! We must have one ready by WED.

My proposal is The American Liberation War. There are many of you much more creative, so let's hear them!

Ninot · July 28, 2002, 20:49

I propose:

The War of Progression

July 28, 2002, 20:50

Ameritonian War, or the Apolymerican War. Basically, just combinations of the two country names. Or, we could call it 'The Exodus' or 'The Exodus War' or 'The War of the Exodus', as we have moved out of our original jungle home.

EDIT: I DON'T SPEAK THE ENGLISH

Epistax · July 28, 2002, 20:52

All descriptive:

The 6 Turns War
The War of Territory
The War of Freedom
The War of Worldly Attention
The First War (in the known world)
The Perfect War
The Great Expansion
The Lucky Break
The Start (of...)
The Great Footprint
The Hamburger Massacre
The End of Bad Beer
The Obvious Choice
The Only Answer
Apolooza

UnOrthOdOx · July 28, 2002, 20:54

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Originally posted by Epistax
The 6 Turns War

lets see, 1050 to 925... the 125 years war?

Ninot · July 28, 2002, 20:58

125 doesnt have a nice ring to it, or is it just me?

jdd2007 · July 28, 2002, 21:31

no, it doesnt look right either. i would call it, simply, the first war. it may not sound exciting now, but in 1500 A.D. it will stand out from our other wars

Apocalypse · July 28, 2002, 21:35

The War of Northern Aggression.

Inverse Icarus · July 28, 2002, 21:37

why, The Great Leap Foward of course.

i'd also go for the yanko-polytonian war, or something to that effect.

jdd2007 · July 28, 2002, 21:37

no, too vague. there could be another war of northern agression in 20 turns anyway...

Apocalypse · July 28, 2002, 21:40

I was just joking. Since there will probably be another war to take Boston later, I say just the First American War.

Ninot · July 28, 2002, 21:48

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Originally posted by Apocalypse
I was just joking. Since there will probably be another war to take Boston later, I say just the First American War.

i think the "First" part of that should be kept out untill we have a "second" war

people didnt call World War 1 World War 1 untill World War 2, ya know, cuz untill world war 2, it was just the World War, or the Great War. Notice all the times i got to use the words world and war?

I had a good laugh at "the war of northern agression" Unfortunately, wouldnt ours have been southern agression? anywhoo...

Great Leap forward is allright, but i rather go with a more standard War name, rather than what was a communist campaign for modernification.

Donal Graeme · July 28, 2002, 21:53

Modernification....

Oh, sorry...

I think the war of 1050 works, its simple, easy to remember, explains a great deal, and well, I can't think of anything better

Ninot · July 28, 2002, 21:56

the problem with something like

the war of (insert year)

is that it implies the war was inclusive to that year, and did not spread to any years. ours lasted 125 years...

Apocalypse · July 28, 2002, 22:03

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Originally posted by Ninot
I had a good laugh at "the war of northern agression" Unfortunately, wouldnt ours have been southern agression? anywhoo...

They provoked us into firing first since they didn't abandon their fort that was inside our territory.

Epistax · July 28, 2002, 22:43

lol lets call it Our First Attack Against Americans... yes they'll love that

Ananias · July 28, 2002, 23:16

In reality, a civ's first war would probably just be called THE war by its people until the second war. So "The First War" or "The First American War" seems a clear indicator of the event & to its historical impact (i.e. the first time we realized we could win if we fought)

Mr. President · July 28, 2002, 23:37

Since we can't have a Six Day War in Civ3, I vote for the Six Turns War.

rush · July 28, 2002, 23:45

Some suggestions :

The American Liberation War
First Victory
American Jihad
Uber-American War
The Mother of All Wars
The Virgin War

Captain · July 28, 2002, 23:48

First Imperial War of Territorial Expansion
or
First Imperial War of Northern Expansion
or
The War of Aggression

Let's not kid ourselves. There's enough revisionism in real life, why not call it truthfully here? We should remember that our nation's expansion/progression was at the expense of rival Americans and was initiated by us without provocation. Heck, we planned this out for hundreds of years, if that's not a cold-blooded attack ("a day that will live in infamy") on an unsuspecting neighbour, I don't know what is.

(Okay, so it's not totally bad, we didn't break an RoP or technically surprise attack since we did declare war - but we are clearly the unprovoked aggressor here.) Don't let the politicians try to spin this one...

I believe our newspaper has freedom of the press, and even the historian's office is being privatized (no?), so I hope our dear paper's editor will be fair in presenting both sides...

Signed,
A patriotic, yet discerning citizen, who hopes his official position and membership in several important institutes prevents him from simply being "disappeared" due to his personal opinions voiced here.

MrWhereItsAt · July 29, 2002, 00:33

The War Of Necessity (I) - aka (in the future, after other such wars) WON1

Can't you see it? We'll be talking about all the WON Wars. (

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Harovan · July 29, 2002, 03:43

Call it "The First American campaign". No less, no more.

DAVOUT · July 29, 2002, 04:22

Yes, The American Campaign. Saying First would disclose the most secret plans of the General Head Quarter.

Spiffor · July 29, 2002, 08:12

I think Uber's "great leap forward" is excellent... We won't see many wars which will change our situation so drastically (doubling the size of the empire, make us a world power)

jdjdjd · July 29, 2002, 11:14

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Originally posted by Ninot
125 doesnt have a nice ring to it, or is it just me?

You could call it the The Hundred Year's war (the real one lasted 116 years, so accuracy does not matter.)

Or how about The War of the Dyes. The Jungle War.

jdd2007 · July 29, 2002, 11:31

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Originally posted by Sir Ralph
Call it "The First American campaign". No less, no more.

i definitely agree

Aro · July 29, 2002, 11:34

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Originally posted by jdjdjd

You could call it the The Hundred Year's war (the real one lasted 116 years, so accuracy does not matter.)

Or how about The War of the Dyes.

You find it!

Edit: The War of the Dyes

UnOrthOdOx · July 29, 2002, 11:37

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I believe our newspaper has freedom of the press, and even the historian's office is being privatized (no?), so I hope our dear paper's editor will be fair in presenting both sides...

My staff and I will take this under advisement. Perhaps we could arrange an interview with one of the survivors...However, since when does the press ever truly cover both sides of ANY issue? I personally am in favor of presenting OUR side, but am a business man, and if there is a demand for the other side, perhaps it will sell a few more papers?

On the Historian side, the ball is in your court people. I can manage and arrange submissions, but I have not recieved any for Historian. I do not have time to WRITE both a history and the paper, and, as Tass before me, I choose the paper. It is my baby after all, and with when nearing 100

subscribers, it is not going to be easy to set aside.

UnOrthOdOx · July 29, 2002, 11:46

OK, going to make a poll tonight.

So far the leaders seem to be:

The Great Leap Forward
The American Campaign (to be called first later)
The War of Neccessity (I) (won...I love it...)
The War of the Dyes (nice and descriptive)

Anyone feel strongly for the other suggestions, or have more?

Inverse Icarus · July 29, 2002, 14:43

i'll shamelessly agree with my suggestion again.

The Great Leap Forward