After the eventful struggles of the previous few months, the pace of life calms down. Our time this month is spent reassessing the assets that survived the wars (and our mishaps!) It includes looking over our finances. Understanding the emerging political and diplomatic situation. Yet also determining which aspects of our military to construct. So to assessing our opponents future plans by their actions.
We ask questions of ourselves. We ponder our next move.
3 October
Through a very canny play France reasserts herself as a coalition leader. She annexes her satellite Netherlands thus grabbing possession of Utrecht from the Dutch. In the same breath she removes easy access to that victory location from us. It is enough for her to reacquire her status in Land Dominance.
In terms of rebuilding the army money is not the problem. We are making a healthy profit as we can see from the money before and we have access to loans. Moreso since most of our armed forces on land were destroyed by those two or three decisive French victories. The real problem which will limit our capacity to recruit the army we want is manpower. It has dipped below 100,000 and though it is only my personally set threshold, I would have preferred to keep this this safety net high in case we are dragged back into another European-wide war.
Hopefully though if we play our cards right we can build enough of an army to expand our influence and still grow our manpower pool over the next few years that we will be able to prepare or army for the next big coalition war. For no we elect not to recruit any new brigades or commission any new squadrons.
Some minor good news. I discover two more infantry brigades in the Portsmouth garrison and split those off and sent them to the
4 October
The remnants of the British Liberation army is reorganised in the Hannover Garrison, but is stationed in the fortified town of Bremen. We could expand our holdings by declaring war on Oldenburg but we are not playing aggressively. Our focus is purely on our own strategic targets and Minden is not one of them. Let the Prussians be distracted with taking the province for now.
5 October
Spain declares war on Tunisia. Possibly one of Spain's own dominance targets lies with the Tunisia borders.
15 October
With peace reigning free most of the Royal Navy return to home ports to return their squadrons to full strength. The survivors of the third coalition war reformed under General Wellesley are embarked to return home.
18 October
War Exhaustion remains relatively high. So for this month and perhaps next month there will be little fighting on our part. Reinforcement speed is particularly high.
The war between the Ottoman Empire, her satellites and Austria and Russia continues to go the way you might expect.
30 October
A quick check of the units in Hannover reveals that we have another of brigades that are were instrumental in our initial victories of the war. We will use these to form the core of a new Continental army.
Thus ends October. With November on our doorstep winter is not to far away. It is time to draw breath and anticipate the victories that will come forth.
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