Ralegh -> AAReport - Ralegh as Britain (7/8/2005 5:17:30 PM)
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Wow - every game is just sooo different. I just finished playing Britain at Napoleon level. I rushed the 2 British armies to Hannover, and then force marched them to Styria, trying to get there before Austria collapsed under the French attack. The rush naval moves meant that we allowed the French fleets near England to get out and choose not to intercept them to make sure our troops got to Europe as fast as possible. Fortunately, the French moved them out without any forces on board: otherwise we would have had to abort the invasion (or left one at home). Nelson beat the heck out of the French fleet, and then the Spanish fleet. The Spanish fleet ended up in Majorca, and Nelson stood off Gibraltar looking at the French, and then mounted a port raid to destroy the rest of the French fleet. It was a little costly in ships, but we sank them all. Meanwhile, the Channel fleets chased and attacked the French fleets, and then launched port raids to obliterate teh last few ships. (The French did win one naval battle, but were unlucky with the pursuit, so it was pretty much straight downhill for them.) Meanwhile, France beat us into Styria province, but we got there the very next month, and took it back from them, with the help of a Russian army (+34 glory battle). Amazingly, at the end of that month, Austria surrendered to France, and France surrendered to Britain! I suppose between the morale loss from the naval battles, my diplomats, and then the battle in Styria they must have been pretty low. Wow. I took Britany and Normandy, and made the French remove both Napoleon and Lannes. Hehe. I moved the navies around to focus on Spain, carrying my new corp and a couple of militia around as reinforcements, and marched the army into Italy - conquering Tuscany (at last - lots of wine!), Naples and Sicily, and occupying Calabria. Conquering Naples was awesome: they immediately built 3 British infanty divisions and 2 cav divisions - I don't really understand why, since my feudal level was zero. [I ran supply from Malta until I conquered Naples.] At this stage, France was a couple of glory ahead of me, so I started thinking about fighting them again. They were still at war with Sweden - they had gotten a surrender from Russia, and occupied Berlin to get a surrender from Prussia, but were only under enforced peace with Prussia. I had great relations with everyone (except France) because of trade routes... Austria declared war on France! Now was the moment. I thought about rushing back to Styria, but instead I ran a naval invasion from Sicily into Languedoc, violating French territory on my way to Normandy [I used the naval invasion because the fleets were there, and it might blindside the enemy a little more than marching up Italy would]. France issued an ultimatum, so I let them declare war on me. At this stage, the English First Army consisted of 12 divisions (ie. the army had a corps), including 4 cav, 4 arty, 2 guards and 2 other inf. The Second army was 4 cav and 2 inf. We moved straight north for Ile de France, which we beseiged until the mass of French troops were about to hit us. Then we withdrew in Normandy, hoping they would follow - we wanted the guns of Normandy helping us, since our army was only 120,000 men or so, and the French had double that. Meanwhile, Wellington and the new units we had built back in England (2 arty and a Rifle Infantry) got shipped to Normandy and joined the army outside Paris. We got lucky - we had three minor battles whooping French butt before the big stack arrived, and we must have stayed just long enough - we retreated to Normandy, and that very month insurrenctionists forced France to surrender to us! The glory from the surrender pushed us over the top - end of game in April 1808. At the end, it was Britain 1036 Sweden 392 France 380 Austria 361 Turkey 309 Pruissia 253 Spain 176 Russia 61 Noteworthy features: - Sweden never came out after the French - I tried a few different rally points, and tried leaving them alone, but they just stayed back and built. Probably a good strategy from them. - Spain surrendered to me without any enemy soldiers every touching mainland Spain - I have seen Russia be forced to do that, but never before Spain. - Exiling Napoleon and Lannes probably wasn't as helpful to my allies as taking a couple of armies on loan might have been - the Russians and Prussians were completely overwhelmed with Austria and I out of the war and Swedes refusing to come out of their mountains. - Developing the British economy seemed very successful - I had 3 provinces building good military units full time for the last year, and we had over 2000 gold in the bank. The next set of new divisions - which I didn't get to ship over - were a guard, another corps, and 2 cav, with 3 infantry nearly built. How come so much? I had used trade to get lots of food, and built roads so the population was up lots over the start. I improved farms and factories in relevant areas (up to level 5). I don't think I built a single bank. Towards the end I was building culture (trying to improve my glory rate to win peacefully). The tricky thing for Britain isn't getting glory or avoiding defeat - its preventing the French getting to 1000 glory first.
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