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January

Ducats 301 (+64 / month)

Prestige 500 (-/+0)

Manpower 62k (+4.8k / m)

Diplomats 4 (2.25 / m)

War Exhaustion 0.66 (- 0.14 / m)

speed we are able to reinforce our armies,

generate income,

base morale and

the higher the base revolt risk across our domain.

Naval Movement – Implement Repair at Sea to allow our squadrons to repair at sea.

to allow our squadrons to repair at sea. Economic – Implement National Banking System to decrease interest on any loans we may take out.

to decrease interest on any loans we may take out. Production – Implement Naval Dockyards to increase the global repair speed of naval units.

to increase the global repair speed of naval units. Command – Implement Diplomatic Corps to increase our ability to generate diplomats per month.

to increase our ability to generate diplomats per month. National (British) – Implement Press Gangs to decrease naval maintenance and increase naval unit travel range.

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February

Ireland: Cork, Limerick, Belfast are disbanded – leaving only the garrison in Dublin.

Scotland: Inverness, Inverness are disbanded – leaving only the garrison in Edinburgh – for Glasgow, as it does not have a fort.

Wales: None - the Bristol garrison is sent to amalgamate with the one in Cardiff to protect this vital province.

England: Carlisle, Hull, Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, Leicester, Birmingham, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Colchester, Yarmouth, Norwich are disbanded – leaving only garrisons in London, Newcastle, Chatham and Dover.

Overseas: Gibraltar and Malta retain their original garrisons.



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Ottoman Empire with its satellites, fight against Austria and Egypt.

Russian and Persia are also locked in conflict.

The first month of the year sees a lot of naval and some diplomatic action. France automatic calls her satellite states to war. Her other coalition member – Spain, almost immediately heeds her call to war. We are guaranteeing the independence of Portugal as a check to ensure that Spain knows that if she tries to grab its territory, it shall have us to answer to.There are four main resources (or assets) that we will use to conduct operations. These are are shown on the top left toolbar – showing the current value and in brackets +/- monthly gain:Obviously the more ducats we can gain the more military operations we can fund. The higher manpower, the larger the number of armies we can raise and maintain their losses. More diplomats means more options to manipulate the state of affairs between our nation and others or France and others.Furthermore we must also manage an anti-resource which will affect our country's ability to operate. This is War Exhaustion which is stands at:While the higher the war-exhaustion, the more crippled aspects of our nation will become. This includes the:Next I turn my attention to the alerts. We can see four alerts currently. The left most shows that we are at war. Highlighting the icon will show who we are at war with. The next one over shows us we have leaders unassigned to any military formation. The second from the right demonstrates that we have enough Idea Points to choose a new area of knowledge. Highlighting the 'light-bulb' icon shows we which ones are available.Given the current situation we should consider adopting one of the following:All but National Ideas area available to every other nation in the game. National ideas though are only available to the eight major powers, each country possessing a set of unique ideas.For now our priority is to go on the offensive on the diplomatic front so lets choose to implement Diplomatic Corps. The navy is obviously on a level footing and we will look at those areas before deciding on any other idea categories. Though we won't have the dilemma of choosing until we accumulate another two hundred idea points.First order of the day is to reassign the transport squadrons in our naval fleets to the ports in London ready for when they are needed. Both groups of naval fleets jockey for position in the English channel. Trying to engage their rivals with superior numbers. A French fleet moves northward around the western coastline and begins to block several of our ports.The Mediterranean Fleet commanded by Admiral Horatio Nelson currently anchored north-west of French held Corsica is returned by to the coast off Gibraltar. There it will be either serve as to guard the approaches and keep the enemy fleets at bay or as an escape vessel for the army stationed there. If the unthinkable should happen.General William Beresford is assigned command of Malta Force (army). Both it and its sister force in Gibraltar are given the order toif attacked, through theThe Portsmouth Fleet commanded by Sir Edward Gardner is joined by the eight ships of the Medway fleet. They fight against a total of twenty ships of the French enemy force in the Cap de la Hague, off the French coast.Result: GB victoryLosses: French - 3x Ships of the Line; GB - 1x Ship of the Line.Given the fourth alert informs us that we are able to create a coalition, we make diplomatic efforts to reach out to a number of nations whose relation score is high. These efforts that were made a few days earlier bear fruition as Brunswick, Portugal and Sicily join our coalition.Austria and Prussia cannot be approaches as they are also friendly with France. We must look to sabotage their relationships if we are to attempt to gain their alliance. Russia could also join but her lack of proximity will most likely relegate her to a naval offensive role.The Mediterranean Fleet intercepts a small Spanish fleet east of Valencia. Its eight First -rate ships of the line and four frigates are no match for the forty fighting vessels under the command of Admiral Nelson. As a result he gains the Fighter trait (+ naval attack, - naval defence)Result: GB victoryLosses: Spain - 7x Ships of the Line & 1x Frigate; GB - None.A Dutch fleet raids the south-east coast blockading the ports of London, Colchester and Chatham. Lord Keith takes the Channel fleets The brief contest twenty-four ships of the line and twelve frigates and defeats the smaller fleet without any casualties.Result: GB victoryLosses: Netherlands - 6x Ships of the Line & 1x Frigate; GB - None.Sir Edward Gardner takes his Portsmouth fleet and chases the fleeing enemy fleet catching them off the coast of St. Malo. The resulting engagement sees the French force lose half its complement.Result: GB victoryLosses: French - 3x Ships of the Line & 1x Frigate; GB - None.Spain guarantees Moroccan independence.Admiral Nelson's Mediterranean fleet arrives in the Strait of Gibraltar to ensure its protection from seaborne attack.The Medway Fleet under the command of Sir John Duckworth meets a superior French force in the Baie the Somme. Its eight ships of the line and eight frigates defeat the enemy sixteen ships of the line.Result: GB victoryLosses: French - 3x Ships of the Line & 1x Frigate; GB - None.The Channel Fleet stationed off of the south-east coast finally meets up with the French fleet which cir-cum-navigated the British Isles. Though Lord Keith's thirty six ships greatly outnumber the French navy's, they receive their first casualties.Result: GB victoryLosses: French - 10x Ships of the Line; GB - 2x Ships of the Line.A new month arrives giving us more of the same and a few new situations to deal with.On the diplomatic front we use half of my diplomats to sabotage France's relation with Prussia and Austria. Bringing both down to zero. We have a small dilemma now, do we reach out to Russia and include her in our coalition? Or do we keep our remaining diplomats to attempt to persuade the somewhat fickle Prussians and Austrians to join our cause? I choose the later. Lets see how this pans out later in the month.Unfortunately it seems as though Denmark has joined France's coalition, but as yet not declared war on us.In terms of military forces we assess the number of army formations we currently have in the field. A large portion of the army is a static one; garrisons of coastal artillery and militia, cheap and quick to build. However they take up a huge amount of manpower which could be used to train an elite force for combat overseas.Therefore we sanction the reorganisation of British garrisons as follows:Manpower is boosted: from – 62k, to – 153k.Another area of concern is the economy. It is just not producing enough ducats for us to be able to afford the recruitment of new brigades or squadrons, nor allow us to provide enough war subsides to support coalition partners.So we look to increase this capability by increasing the Province Development in a few areas that are under-performing. Selecting thegives us a good indication of the provinces producing most income: Green is most, yellow, red and then green. After scanning our provinces the best candidate seems to be Dublin. All others provinces in the realm seem to already be at their maximum development level – Civilized. Yet we have a problem. We do not possess enough ducats in our treasury.So we grab a loan through the. We receive a loan of 1134 ducats giving us a treasury total of 1481.A thousand ducats will be enough for now to fund the upgrade of Dublin's development level to Civilized (highest). It will also allow us to build a few more ship of the line squadrons. To reinforce our current fleet. So we go to Portsmouth and Yarmouth and through theorder one new first rate ship of the line squadron from each province.They will be ready around November time, so we will still need to our fleet intact if we are to avoid an impromptu invasion by the French army.In additional some twelve months from now, we shall have an increased income from Dublin. Though in terms of an immediate increase in income, the amount of army maintenance will drop due to the decommissioning of those army garrisons.A Spanish army of 20,000 troops arrives in Gibraltar. Our force of 14k troops retreats into the fortress to join the local garrison. Together with our fleet patrolling the coastline, it will be safe from any attempted siege.The Irish Fleet returns safely to port in Falmouth, just as the Channel fleet reaches the French coast off of Brest and is immediately sent to tackle the Dutch fleet attempting to sail home.It seems that Spain really desires possession of Gibraltar. It sends a large naval force of 28 ships of the line and 8 frigates against Admiral Nelsons 32 ship of the line, 8 frigates and 8 transports. The battle lasts a few days and ends today with another resolute British victory.Result: GB victoryLosses: French - 10x Ships of the Line & 1x Frigates; GB - 2x Transports.Now that it looks like we are winning the battle for naval supremacy, it is time to set nearly all the home navy fleets to actively intercept any enemy fleets that stray from their home ports. This is done using the Operational Toolbar, using the Intercept order. Only the large Transport Fleet anchored in London and the Home Fleet blockading the large French Invasion fleet are not given this order.Transports from the Mediterranean Fleet are sent to port. One of the squadrons requiring repairs to two ships to return it back to full strength.A battle in the Baie of Somme is won by a force commanded by Admiral Sir Robert Calder who led his 32 ships against a French force has his size. Admiral Sir John Duckworth gained a trait as a result of his victory.Result: GB victoryLosses: French - 5x Ships of the Line & 2x Frigates; GB - 5x Ships of the Line.A small Spanish fleet is spotted off coast of Malta. Without a naval force to repel it this could mean trouble for the garrison and small force stationed there.It appears that Austria and Prussia cannot be invited to coalition. Their relations to us are to low and must be increased first. So we shall focus diplomatic actions on doing so, first for Austria (55 relation). We hold off from attempting to do so to Prussia (100 relation) and instead invite Russia into the Coalition. Next month we shall work to influence both parties.Apart from rearranging our fleets across the channel so that they are more evenly spaced along the coast, the other other movement is to return the Irish fleet with two additional frigate squadrons from the Channel Fleet, back to Dublin.In terms of ongoing wars there are two other than the conflict between France and ourselves:Over the next few months we should continue to go on the offensive diplomatically and perhaps also in a limited capacity on land.