TO THE IRON FIST
FROM BRITAIN
Have you forgotten how many times the quickest to take arms are often wrong?
I suggest that you fully investigate this "Arab" fleet, since I had a small squadron of sloops in the area defending my East Indiamen ships, and they reported seeing the Arab navy in port and the same time the attack happened.
As they continued, they saw the mystery fleet being hunted down, and British seamen know their ships, and the commander suggests to me that those were NOT Arab vessels.
Britain calls for a United Nations investigation, and MI6 is currently beginning an investigation itself, in conjuction with the Royal Navy.
Queen Elizabeth
Orders:
Integrate the Home Guard into the regular army with extra training to upgrade the army to Small, then upgrade it to Medium with German help.
Continue to upgrade the National Health Service and state schools.
The trading navy, including the East Indiamen, is to become the Merchant Navy, which merges all of the trading fleets together under the command of the Crown, where they can be properly protected, and if needed, taken over in case of war. The focus for this turn is on upgrading the Merchant Navy, giving them plenty of money to encourage them to trade - some of the money is to be spent on their escorts and equipping trading vessels with some defences against pirates. The majority of trading is to be done with Germany, followed by the Andes Confederation and France.
Share Gunpowder with the Germans.
Investigate the "Arab" fleet.
Send 1/10th of Armed Forces to fight with the United Nations - all of the rest are to remain home and defend Britain and her Empire.