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Soup
Soup, the perfect ration for war-torn soldiers

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"soup is good"

― main phrase of the soup team

Soup (also spelt soop, s00p, soonp (if they are part of SSS, III), and rarely sop) is a non-game item yet popular dish full of liquid food that is made with a mixture of meat and vegetable ingredients and certain liquids such as stock, juice, water and sometimes horse meat from a killed horse on any cavalry map or enemy player.

In the world of Blood & Iron, it has become a tremendous meme in which players (mostly of either the French or Russian Empire faction) are able to make Soup Stores and even attempt negotiating peace with the enemy factions. The trend's origins date back to sometime around late 2014-early 2015, however, it is currently unknown as to exactly who was responsible for creating this meme and why it became so popular within the game.

Soup Store

Soup stores are usually created by sappers as a way to encourage peace or ceasefires (they are also but sometimes used to protect their team if they either decide to camp or retreat, despite of their non-approval). These soup stores are usually made by sappers out of barricades (made out of fences or crates) with a "cash register", accompanied by musicians and rarely guarded by infantry. It is often debated whether soup shops are actually useful, however, neither side of the argument will likely ever succeed and take the cake. A gabion is usually built to represent a bowl/bucket of soup.

Peace

This method of encouraging peace depends on the sapper(s). Some people like to kill soup men, while others spare them and come back for them later or until they are the last player alive. Soup people are sometimes incompetent, but it is always important to look out for those who are trying to lure the opponents in. 

Remember, there can be peace in war. Soup men are one of the factors deciding whether a server is peaceful or full of war.

Types of Soup Role-players

• Sappers: These people are responsible for building the shop and mostly making the soup, either by themselves or with another sapper.
• Musicians: These people take it upon themselves to play music for the Soup Shop. Just like any other musician, be careful. Just because they might love soup, doesn't mean they won't act like a pro player in disguise.
• Guards: Though seen not too common in servers, guards are an extra defense to a soup shop. As they provide great protection with a sapper in time of attack.
• Fakers: Those who pretend to be friendly in order to lure their enemy into their trap and kill them. (How to fight them: "if you see a fest of dead body around the soup shop, better don't go to that soup shop and if you a first one... Well, BAD LUCK")
• Buyers: Those that would "buy" some soup. Perhaps the most commonly-bought soup is horse soup, due to the fact its "the most supplied item". Some will order weird things like human soup, hair soup and much more. Others would order real-life food, such as chicken noodle soup and vegetable soup. Rarely, some mash-up things like "I would like a human chicken horse hair lead hat soup." The buyers are either themselves, the team, or an equally-interested enemy.
• Cannibals: Rarely seen in-game, they are sappers or harvesters that use human meat or any other product originating from the human body to make their soup.
• Harvesters: Also seen not too common, they're the ones also responsible for "making" the soup, Most of the harvesters harvest horse meat, while some harvest human meat.
• Priests: Rarely seen ever. They say they baptize the soup makers to "bless" the soup. They use the pistol the perform baptisms. They say "MAY YOU BE ONE WITH GOD" (but most of the time say "MAY YOU BE ### WITH GOD") then shoot their pistol in the air.

Variants

Very rarely, players swap out the soup gabions for other food items. Listed as follows:

• Pizza (shown as crates)
• Tea (shown as gabions or 'tea' crates, often by British)
• Baguettes or Bread (shown as crates or rarely sandbags, often by French)

Gallery

Soupland I, a VERY ambitious soup store project. Later Soulands even included drive-thrus for Calvary

User frf4evrw took it a step further and made a soup emporium.

frf4evrws' soup castle.

GlenAA and BelayaSmert, both of which are a part of the Duchy of Warsaw serving as the Bartenders of a Soup Shop in Falenty

Pipierro after constructing a Soup Store in the map Plancenoit.

SaltStarzFromGalaxy and a friend proudly displaying their nine minute creation "Superior Soonp Sellers, III" which includes tables and chairs for buyers, and will late include drive-thru for cavalry. Mainly inspired by Soupland I

This is only one small portion of the (what I call) "the great soup shop", the rest is off screen

SaltStarzFromGalaxy serving a cav at the drive thru of Superior Soonp Sellers, III

SaltStarzFromGalaxy taking some orders

SaltStarzFromGalaxy finishing his store

Superior Soonp Sellers, III layout

Mr Soup (In Coda-Tv's 2 hour movie) where he is uniting the Russian soldiers in a church, to "Protect le soup, and praise the soup gods"

Enemies

Besides pacifist hunters, anti-roleplayers, and others who are against their idea of soup, their competition with the Tea Party (mainly comprised of members from the British Empire) is known to be the biggest non-nation rivalry in Blood & Iron.

Tips

• If you see a soup appear, it is best to not destroy their store or else they will go berserk with their axe.

• Soup sappers aren't the smartest of all. They have a slower swing speed than the one-handed weapons. Take advantage of this by blocking one of their hits, then stabbing them, then backing up. Rinse and repeat.

Trivia

• One server on 1/11/2020 had a colossal soup shop with everyone on both factions operating it. It had tables and a well for the buyers to sit down and enjoy some soup.
• According to a comment on this page, it says that soup in Blood & Iron was made by Crazedcrazy416. This is not yet confirmed.
• An alternate and quite rare spelling of soup is soonp, made by SaltStarzFromGalaxy (misslecake5 now). He is the founder of Superior Soonp Sellers, III and has a drive-thru for cav, as well as takeaway and dine in.