Drew,
More revisionist history.
The rules of our game stated that one needed 85% WS to force a peace. Even with St. Petersburg and a couple other provinces left in your hands, you were down to around 30%. You also went south instead of east, a critical mistake, and I'd regrouped and rebuilt my armies so that even with your fleet intact you never could've regained a foothold.
And you never would've gained one to begin with if you hadn't DOWed after we'd already called the session and were simply cleaning up the map. My regular standing armies had been dispersed to the south and I didn't both reestablishing the Kremlin Guard. But even unprepared and faced with Wellington, you were still unable to defeat Russia, and would've been quite apart from the ambush on your fleet (which can be well compared to the surprise attack after we decided to end).
It was a nice landing and a good move until you moved south where tax base, manpower and VPs were all lower. And you retreat to the coast was hardly "clever." If you'd remained in the north you wouldn't have nearly lost Wellington, and even keeping him alive was a moral victory rather than a practical one. With my armies rebuilt and reorganized, you wouldn't have been able to come near winning that war, and extending yourself in that way left you vulnerable in Sweden's home waters.
All-in-all, a regular war you've blown up into some kind of titanic achievement and example of what MCT can do. It was Wellington who got the job done, and even he, with mass cannon, was unable to make it stick.
More revisionist history.
The rules of our game stated that one needed 85% WS to force a peace. Even with St. Petersburg and a couple other provinces left in your hands, you were down to around 30%. You also went south instead of east, a critical mistake, and I'd regrouped and rebuilt my armies so that even with your fleet intact you never could've regained a foothold.
And you never would've gained one to begin with if you hadn't DOWed after we'd already called the session and were simply cleaning up the map. My regular standing armies had been dispersed to the south and I didn't both reestablishing the Kremlin Guard. But even unprepared and faced with Wellington, you were still unable to defeat Russia, and would've been quite apart from the ambush on your fleet (which can be well compared to the surprise attack after we decided to end).
It was a nice landing and a good move until you moved south where tax base, manpower and VPs were all lower. And you retreat to the coast was hardly "clever." If you'd remained in the north you wouldn't have nearly lost Wellington, and even keeping him alive was a moral victory rather than a practical one. With my armies rebuilt and reorganized, you wouldn't have been able to come near winning that war, and extending yourself in that way left you vulnerable in Sweden's home waters.
All-in-all, a regular war you've blown up into some kind of titanic achievement and example of what MCT can do. It was Wellington who got the job done, and even he, with mass cannon, was unable to make it stick.
and my England was weak... I was up to 550 income I think at best, that is because when you start close to 1800 and the nation has been left too long it will tend to lack the CCs, lack the Income and Ships neccessary to be an unstoppable killing machine that it is capable of being in the right hands. True I was bit weak I just wanted to show the World that Russia could be bested at least on her own terrain and that Wellington would get involved. I didn't however save France nor did I properly arrange Cochrane to face the Swedes and Spanish with what little reserves and ships I did have. I ended up getting pounced for it losing 1/3rd my fleet. I had only 400 or so Warships!!! I didn't expect anti-English Sweden on top of Spain. I had Smith at the helm<foolish altogether> With you even more foolish, with as weak an England as I had I should've sent 3 Xs the infantry to sit on those ships for when you went to kill Wellington! You were weak disorganized and likely distracted yourself with dividing Prussia and it was late... 
