FAL said:
Heya guys,
Sorry for giving such a short notice. I'll be there next tuesday if necessary (I assume no perm has been found?).
I understand from the comments in the thread that a mini-gangbang has taken place and England was defeated, with Chinese provinces going to Venice? And Spain has broken a NAP?
Can someone make a summary for me?
Well, um, let's just say that more "ept" gangbangings have occurred. :rofl:
Here is a summary of events during the session:
England was subbed by
Sorelius. England and Russia continued their war against the OE, the end result of which was that England got the Alexandria CoT and Russia I believe got some provinces as well, I think managing to finally connect up the Siberian provinces with a land connection.
Venice, smelling blood, immediately attacked, demanding four provinces in central slavic Europe. After a rather half-hearted defense by HAL, who was in pretty bad shape from the prior war, the OE agreed to the demands. However, France began to rattle sabres and said to Venice that taking a fourth province, namely Serbia, was not acceptable. After it looked like war would break out, the OE agreed to the exchange of the province to Venice in return for Venetian financing of a fleet.
At this point, the Anti-English Alliance began to form. France and England had started a trade war when England's traders refused to stop competing French merchants out of their monopolies in the French CoTs. So France banned English merchants from the French CoTs. After about two years, the English responded with their own ban. By this time, the OE was down to the business of bulking up a fleet, so the OE, Venice and Spain joined the trade war, banning the English merchants. Russia, England's newfound stalwart friend, began banning French (and I presume Venetian, Spanish and Turk) merchants. The only winners, of course, were the smaller nations, who swooped in to scoop up open places.
The trade war took a bad turn for England when the French king suddenly realized that Delhi was an "open" CoT. The French promptly flooded the CoT, and managed to compete out the English merchants entirely. This, I think, more than anything else, really began to hurt English trade income.
Meanwhile, as the OE continued to bulk up for naval action, and France sat and twiddled its thumbs waiting to see if anything would actually occur, England and Russia ganged up on the Turks again. Russia DoW'd, and England had the lion's share of its fleet in the Med with troops galore, threatening to join in. The OE gave up right away, and more Turkish provinces were handed over to Russia, including the Astrakhan CoT. But this was a mistake on the part of England, for unbeknownst to them, the French fleet was in the Med, off Provence, taking on about 300K of soldiers. It then set sail for the coast off York.
So, while the English fleet was where it never should have been, the French declared war, and dumped a sizeable army onto the Home Island of the English Empire. York and Lincoln were speedily reduced, then the armies met in a gigantic clash in Essex, where the French troops pulled a victory out of the jaws of defeat, and began chasing the English troops around a bit. Meanwhile, the Venetians readily joined the war, but the Turks and the Spanish dithered, worried that their meticulous preparations were not ready. Venice attacked in China, and had managed to reduce Zhejiang, and was getting ready to attack Shanghai. Finally, the Turkish and Spanish fleets showed up in La Manche, and the French fleet was ready to join them, so that more French troops could be ferried over to continue the attack (English forces had managed to wipe out the French troops, and were working on retaking Lincoln, rebellion having broken out in York).
Then, ineptitude, if you will. The French king, having seen that the WS against France was already above the magic number (France was taking provinces in America speedily), made a stabhitting offer. Without realizing that the province in Asia taken by Venice wasn't the CoT (it's been a while since I've done this MP thing, and I was BUSY, dammit
), the French offered to peace out for the Chinese province and some minor cash on hand. England ignored this for almost two months (as I had expected they would; we were having FUN, dammit), but then England unexpectedly accepted the peace offer, and all the fun was over.
Now, Venice has a rather uninspiring province in China, the OE has a ton of ships it isn't using, France had to build its troops strength back up (and took a stabhit of major proportions when, not realizing it was against the rules, it broke the truce to reinitiate hostilities - dammit, isn't this game about deceiving and lying and doing generally underhanded stuff??
- then had to take a wp), and god knows what, if anything Spain got out of the deal besides a red face.
In other news, while all this stupidity was going on, Prussia and Denmark decided Frederick just HAD to be used, so they ganged up on poor Austria. After some spirited defense, Austria was forced to give in, especially when the OE, licking its wounds, decided to swoop in and recoup something from the whole mess. At session end, the Austrians and the Turks were going at it, but we limited the action to less than two years, since the English sub dropped suddenly with 18 min to go in the session, and England had been a major financer of Austria. I believe someone had loaned about 3K to Austria on account against Enlish promises.
Thus, the session. It really was too bad. It was going to be a splendid war across La Manche.
ETA: Or, what
Aladar said. :rofl:
