Hola Compadres,

The Boonies across the river have gone to great lengths to thwart our success. Attacks, pearlings, singing of backstreetboys, and even griefing have been tactics employed by the capitalist PigDogs in order to shake our resolve.

It has not worked

Small arms fire has been exchanged. After a few mistakes, our experimental missile system may or may not have burned down a tree farm or two. Petty grief has been cleaned up daily.

I want to take this time to thank all of the wonderful sympathizers who have offered and shown their support. We will stand strong against the capitalist Boonies and win our freedom.

Now for the important stuff:

• THE WAR WILL BEGIN PROMPTLY AT 3pm CST, SATURDAY, MAY 10th Not a minute before it. If that time is bad, I can push it to later. Please try to amass your troops within Cuba at least 30 minutes ahead of time because I will be giving a speech and explaining our plan of attack at about 2:45.

• As a part of the civility of this war, Orion and Cuba have had a conference in which Bouncers have and will continue to be chosen from a group of volunteers. These bouncers will be wearing prot and using full combat loadouts to oversee that everything goes smoothly.

• Remember that the approved kit can be seen here. NO ENCHANTS, NO BUFFS (we can see the particles), NO PEARLS. Edit: No golden apples you scumbags

• People have asked me whether other various things are allowed so I made a list of allowed items so far:

1. TNT (oh yes.)

2. leather armor

3. Wooden swords

4. basically anything worse than iron armor or stone swords. No iron swords.

• I would highly recommend that anybody coming to Cuba's aid go on Civpvp and /inv load WAR to give it a test run or two. The fighting in this armor type is much less tanky than shitty prot pvp. The iron armor lasts a long time, as do the health pots, but you will need to heal fairly often. Something VERY important to understand is BOWS ACTUALLY DO DAMAGE. Bows do ~2 hearts of damage against iron armor when fully charged. Archery/having archers is actually a viable tactic for once ever.

Gracias, compadres, gracias.

- Farley50