New World War 3: 1479-1480 - The Blitz
By the end of the 148th decade, Piracy was becoming a major concern in the New World, and something most experts predict will continue to be a problem for many years to come. With the exception of one previously captured Pirate Carrack, the British Navy is just a whole bunch of Cogs.
In the middle of 1480, Great Britain reached stability level one again, for the first time since the Irish wars. In the minds of many British citizens, especially those in the high command, it had become a matter of pride to not have to be at a high level of stability to run the nation successfully. Thus, a way to reduce the stability level was sought. It didn't take long at all before someone suggested that perhaps it would be fun to declared war on Castille again, just to see what would happen this time. Castille at this point has 4 colonies on the American continent: Acadia and Unamakik in the North East, as well as Cartagena and Antioquía on the northern coast of South America.
By the end of 1480 British ships were in position at the coast of Cartagena, and a British army was ready on the Acadian border, ready to charge across and claim it for Great Britain. And so, war was declared in the middle of December. The planned landing in Cartagena immediately ran into trouble though, as a strong Castillian naval force located and attempted to sink the landing party.
The retreat was immediately ordered before any ships were lost. Within a week the adjacent sea zone was reached, where the invasion force was ordered to disembark into the nearby province of Magdalena, from where it was to march south into Castillian territory.
In the North things were going according to plan at first. The British force flooded into Acadia and quickly siezed it, but soon ran into trouble as they were about to cross the Cabot Strait to Unamakik. However, the most powerful naval constallation to date was ready for that, and so 2 captured Pirate Carracks and 4 cogs overwhelmed the lone transport vessel that blocked the strait, and so by late February, Unamakik and its 800 citizens was also in British hands.
While our South American force is fighting it out with the Castillians over Cartagena, back in Europe, a well tested strategy from the past is applied once again - a cavalry force is sent through Castille to capture Navarra. Some would claim it never worked those times it was tested in the past, but the British high command couldn't care less. It's just too much fun to send 3000 men and horses across an entire country to lay siege to a mountain.
While Antioquía fell into British hands on the 8th of March, when the time the Castillian force that had retreated there from Cartagena arrived on March 12, the natives of that province decided it was a good time to rise up and kill all the settlers in the province, just on general principle.
Not much was to happen the rest of the year as the war waged on. The end of November seeing the siege of Navarra complete, just a week or so before a large Castillian force was due to arrive. Some reinforcements were immediately ordered to ship from Ireland down to Navarra, which was to be our springboard into Castille for the duration of the war, since most of the Castillian army was focused in the west.
By March 8,000 more British troops had reached the Iberian penninsula by boat into Navarra. Not seeing the need for any more troops, the King of Great Britain and Western Surroundings - as he now styled himself - sent an offer of peace to Navarra. 50 gold went into the British coffers, and everyone congratulated themselves on a job well done, as the massive siege of the Castillian capital went underway.
Two spies were dispatched to hurry the siege along, and after just a couple of months the news reached Britain that the Castillian capital had fallen. All of Britain felt sure this war had reached it's end now, the Castillians were sure to come begging for peace.
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