I thought this was as good a time as any to provide a status description of our game.
Western Europe is mostly the place and aim of war between two old ennemis : France and England. But France has grown lavishly in the decade following the 1789 revolution and annexed states (Western Germany,...) or allies (Denmark) make up a strong holding on the mainland.
England, well protected by the Channel, had dropped its isolationism, thinking it could easily operate on the continent too. But its encircling theory (Amsterdam, Italy and Portugal) may have caused weakness more than brought strength. Indeed Italy is on the way to become French, and the agreement with the Russians allowing for an English naval base in the Black sea means little as far as influence in the Med is concerned. The quest for allies has started but apart from Austria that sided with the French in the Med, few monarchs seem tempted to go looking for glory on the battlefield. The bloody exemples of France and Britain might scare a few actually.
Spain's King is a trouble-maker, at war with many countries such as the Ottomans (for religious reasons as usual) or Austria (whose leadership among the catholic monarchs it tries to challenge).
Prussia and Russia seem to be very much "waiting and seeing" (
), strengthening their grip on their holdings. Maybe waiting for France and England to weaken.
That is all for now.