2025 Reinach offensive
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On 30 July 2025, Venetian government took over a Genoan town of Salzburg located in central Austria (due to its previous mayor's inactivity), and pulled off the biggest offensive of the Venetian-Genoan war so far.
Background
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. 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 933 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
The offensive started on 30 July 2025 and continues to the present day. Town of Salzburg has been renamed to "Alps" and as it was neighboring Reinach from the east, it started to expand westwards. In the third week of the offensive, the attackers made it to the town center, successfully overclaiming the town’s central structures. After 25 August, Reinach’s founder stvnder transferred leadership to another holder. As of 27 August, the number of occupied chunks stands at 386, which makes it two fifths of the town's area. Towns of Venice and Auronzo (recently bought German possession) are also engaged in the overclaim. The overclaiming pace is averaging 14 chunks per day. As of 27 August, the offensive has cost approximately 6000 gold ingots.