RE: [eia] my introduction

[Michael Gorman <mpgorman@xxxxxxxx>]

> Frankly, France is in a vulnerable position with Napoleon and an army in
> England, and even from the passive start this Austria has built, things
> could change, and rapidly. So, if we decide to stay the course, I'm more
> than willing to just step in and play the hand that's been dealt...
>
> FYI - although I haven't played in several years, I used to play this as my
> #1 game of all time. It's a superior game, and very much fun!
>
> William W. Jaffe
> billj6203@xxxxxxxxx

Yeah, I got a lucky break in the early going and took the channel and that 
was the last lucky break I've had.  I had three months with a major army 
and I couldn't touch the British.  Couldn't roll above a 2 on attacks or 
less than a 5 on forage rolls.  At this point that army is just marking 
time until it dies and hoping the dice upgrade to mediocre so I can at 
least harvest some political points for the adventure.

I had a very high probability of taking London by March and wiping out the 
British army before the Russians arrived.  If that happened I had figured I 
could probably hold London at least through June and losing two income 
phases this early would leave the British as a non-entity on the mainland 
for sometime to come.  It also would have allowed me to pin down the 
entirety of the mobile Russian forces so that JJ wouldn't have been able to 
take advantage of being sheltered from France to really bother me.  But 
those plans never really worked out so well.  Well, beyond keeping lots of 
troops busy.

Austria's passivity has been interesting since by doing nothing they 
actually completely altered the fabric of the early game and many of those 
alterations are to Austria's benefit.  So it is certainly a playable 
position as Austria has had the unusual position of getting to sit back and 
watching Britain bleed rather than having the Brits sit back and watch 
Austria bleed.

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