England! Whatever you do, do not movethere in Fall '01. Even when (if) you get Stp, you will get no further (who will support the army you spent so much trouble getting there, or were you planning to convoy to Livonia?). A fleet in the Barents is wasting its time. If Germany and France are too stupid to attack your wide open back during that time, why aren't you suckering them into helping you expand elsewhere?
This province should never have a unit in it. Russia needs to move F Stp(nc) to Norway, and anyone else will take too long moving the fleet to somewhere useful once he's gotten Stp.
This may be just a fluke, but never in all my Dip games have I seen anybody use the Barents Sea. Nor have I seen anybody actually use the Kiel Cannal.
Boy, do I lead a sheltered life.
-Rodger Hartley
Barents Sea:
Rule Britannia! Britannia rule the waves! But here?
It's easy for England to get a fleet here as early as Fall '01
(if for some crazy reason she passes up Norway), and rather common
in '02 and after.
However, an English navy in the Barents Sea early in the war is
usually a reason for both France and Germany to rejoice ...
especially if the two are working together ....