I can't emphisize too much how important patience is as Britain fighting France. This is in part a "do as I say, not do as I do" kind of thing, as I screwed that up in my last war with France. Three years in, War score was + 30 (and not getting higher - it is tough just to maintain it at that level given that France still outnumbers me in troops about 2 to 1), with France's war exhaustion 14 and climbing, their stability -1 - I made peace, taking Piccardy, a little cash, and making them release Hanault. Not a bad peace, but I think if I had waited them out I could have caused a lot more damage & maybe even taken a second province.
As it is, though, while France has expanded a bit to the SE and E, since they have lost some important cores (3 in Normandy to an independant Normandy, and now Picardy to me), they are ranked 5th I think in income, less than half of mine (I'm first, my ally Castille a close second, and Denmark, owners of much of northern Germany, is third).
I think I need to bite the bullet and expand my army a bit for the next war - it's only 40,000, and my force limit as I recall is at least 50. Of course, as always, manpower is an issue as well; one of the reasons I made peace when I did (in each of the two last wars, actually) was that manpower was running out.
As I said, fun fun.
As it is, though, while France has expanded a bit to the SE and E, since they have lost some important cores (3 in Normandy to an independant Normandy, and now Picardy to me), they are ranked 5th I think in income, less than half of mine (I'm first, my ally Castille a close second, and Denmark, owners of much of northern Germany, is third).
I think I need to bite the bullet and expand my army a bit for the next war - it's only 40,000, and my force limit as I recall is at least 50. Of course, as always, manpower is an issue as well; one of the reasons I made peace when I did (in each of the two last wars, actually) was that manpower was running out.
As I said, fun fun.
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