2025 Reinach offensive

Before the offensive, 30 July

Offensive as of 27 August

On 30 July 2025, Venetian government took over a Genoan town of Salzburg located in central Austria due to its previous mayor's inactivity ("sniped" the town) and pulled off the biggest offensive of the Venetian-Genoan war so far.

Background

The beginning

Venice and Genoa are in an ongoing conflict since the very beginning of Terra Aurora iteration due to conflict of interest, especially over lands in the northern Italian peninsula. The war is primarily in an idle state with none to a very few PVP skirmishes throughout the entire conflict and revolves around the Italian peninsula, the Iberian peninsula and the Alps. The war, as it is for the majority of conflicts throughout EarthMC, mainly focuses on territorial dominance. Actions done by both parties include but are not limited to sniping towns, bribing & purchasing them or sabotaging (for example, reporting players to the server staff).

Introduction of the overclaim feature

Since the introduction of the overclaim feature on 1 January 2024, Genoa and Venice have been overclaiming each other's towns. On 2 April 2024, nations of Genoa, Aragon, Egypt and Turkey formed the Mediterranean Pact. In the same year, these nations turned against Venice, however it was Venice which particularly overclaimed hostile towns, such as Cairo, Tabarca (located in north Tunisia) and a few Iberian towns. In 2025, the pact has been unofficially dissolved due to inactivity and Venice managed to end conflicts with former Mediterranean Pact members except of Genoa.

Reinach

Town of Reinach was an enormous town covering almost the entire Alps. It was founded on 4 February 2024 by Genoa in Liechtenstein, on the premises influenced by Savoie. Over its 17 months of existence, it maintained a stable population of more than 100 players and expanded to 954 chunks. In July 2025, its mayor stvnder became inactive and town's resident count started to drop to the point it reached 4 people. The overclaim feature allows mayors to prevent overclaiming regardless of being over the town's chunk limit by subscribing to the shield which costs a gold ingot per 4 over-limit chunks per day. The shield lapsed in July 2025 due to the mayor’s inactivity.

Offensive

Loot from Reinach on 24 August

Last day of the offensive, 8 September

Before the attack, on 13 July, town of Venice overclaimed 21 chunks of east Reinach. Town of Salzburg has been sniped down and renamed to "Alps" but stayed idle. In the first two weeks of August, town of Venice overclaimed 95 chunks but the next day it all has been rolled back. The same day, the town of Alps striked and continued the invasion alone. By the end of the third week, attackers made it to the town center. On 25 August, Reinach’s founder stvnder transferred leadership to another holder. On 26 August, Auronzo (recently bought German possession) became engaged in the conflict. By the end of August, the very vast majority of the urban area has been occupied.

As of early September, all of the urban area has been overclaimed. On 7 September, Reinach mayor's position was transferred to yet another holder. On 8 September, Reinach's holder deposited 400 gold ingots to town bank and subscribed to the shield, decelerating the offensive. This much gold makes the shield effective for 9 days.

In the first two weeks of August, town lost 29 chunks. The overclaiming pace largely increased in the following weeks. In the third week, the town lost 192 chunks. The average area loss per day since 13 August to 8 September was 25 chunks. The number of occupied chunks totaled 698, which makes it three fourths of the town's area prior to the attack. Total cost of attack came to ~11200 gold ingots.