RE: [eia] Austrian reinforcements, July '06

[Michael Gorman <mpgorman@xxxxxxxx>]

At 02:02 PM 12/12/2004, you wrote:
> > Thus spake Michael Gorman:
> > > At 07:31 AM 12/9/2004, you wrote:
> > > >1I placed with Charles at Mainz.
> > > >Mack placed with the Venetian corps.
> > > >
> > > >Nothing else visible.
> > >
> > > Doesn't the Venetian navy get placed at some point now that the
> > > Kingdom of
> > > Italy is declared?
> >
> > It should be, yes.
>
> Ah yes, quite right, how could I have missed it?  Alright, so we'll head
> on down to the docks in Venice and HEY there's a few brigs.  And a
> couple of sloops!  And...do my eyes deceive me?  Could that be...yes,
> yes it's a FRIGATE!  All told, I'd say that's a fleet that's equivalent
> in power to a your typical line-of-battle ship.  We're on our way!


I had always wondered about 99 ships for the British.  Why not round it to 
an even 100?  Ran into the statistic somewhere else coming from the British 
Admiralty that 99 was in fact the number of British ships of the line in 
early 1805.

I'm pretty sure that the game in no way accounts for the hundreds of lesser 
vessels that all nations fielded.  I can't recall the exact British number 
in 1805 but it was hundreds of men of war of frigate class and less.  The 
French number was a little less but also in the hundreds.  So you can 
figure all those unblockaded French ports are regularly sending out 
commerce raiders of all sorts to ply the British shipping lanes, but like 
the transports, we're not bothering to count them, just assume they exist.

Just a side note I found interesting,
Mike

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