A Comedy of Errors Aug Sep Oct Nov 1809
As expected Denmark joins Algeria's coalition.
In war and the subsequent peace Russia takes Warchau from the Prussians plus Danzig for good measure.
Prussia request military access from us, this is granted and Prussia becomes one of the few remaining nations to see us in a positive light! Plus if they get too frisky they have about 25,000 men total , they wouldn't last long in the war.
Russia declares war on Sweden.
Sweden makes peace with Denmark and asks that we honour our guarantee.
Since the prospect of another war with France looms large in the mind, Sweden is left to her own devices.
Wellesley takes the war to Bavaria.
Sardinia falls.
The whole pointlessness of the interlude is compounded when I make Piedmont a satellite rather than annex it! This has not been my finest hour!
Wellesley moves deeper into enemy territory and squanders more of our precious manpower.
The Bavarians come to the table.
Depot construction begins at Wurzburg.
Northern Europe.
In a bizarre diplomatic move Sweden guarantees Denmark.
We get the final Fire idea, Line of File Instruction.
Algeria now leaves Denmark's coalition.
Nelson saves Malta yet again.
In the year of peace they had the Danish navy has not improved.
Algeria leaves the Tunisian coalition and disbands it own coalition against us. Still no clue what the hell is going on here.
Freed from Bavarian interference Wellesley marches north and storms Kiel.
We only have 2 field armies at the moment Wellesley in Denmark and Moore in the Med. Other than garrisons the only other forces we have are the troops at Gibraltar and on Malta.
Misreading the victory conditions Moore is ordered to storm Palma in the Med rather than Porto.
I'm becoming increasingly concerned by my fixation with islands.
We take Tunisia's offer of a White Peace.
At Fredericia Wellesley exploits a breach.
Once again Denmark surrenders.
Depot construction begins at Kiel.
We accept Tripolitania's White Peace offer.
Six more naval victories, 4 of them bloodless.
Two new ships captured
Running total of new Royal Naval vessels = 53