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I can now finally see the Austrian forces. The main army is quite impressive. I think it was recently concentrated due to the arrival of all the PoW's available for smaller units.

August 1801
Peace Treaty

A simple document with a simple name, Transylvania Peace, ends a 7 year war. This war had a "slaughter rate" of over 400-for both Austria and Turkey. There can be only joy on both ends of the Danube.

There is great hope that the war with Spain will be a much smaller and easier affair.

The Spanish war is still raging on. Most of the battles are small affairs, but those do add up.

Political Reports

Note the subsidy of 140 bushels of gold that Britain is sending to Austria-and the damn war is over. If only my ally, England, had supported Turkey in this way. [;)]

National Moral

Prussia is still at the bottom even though it is Russia that recently surrendered. I wish I knew what kind of hell has been visited upon that country-oops, nation.

Spain is still low and Austria is rapidly climbing-again.

Strength Report
August 1801

With the initial release of PoW's by both Turkey and Austria, both nations surge in military power.

The Ottoman Empire received 13 divisions that had languished in PoW camps for years. Many of these divisions have a moral of approximately 2.5. It will take a lot of marching and replacements to bring those formations back up to standards. I believe that a couple of the returned divisions were irregular cavalry. Those are infantry now-and with a very low moral. At least it seems that they can increase in moral whereas the starting irregulars could not.

December 1801
Strategic View

The Spanish/Ottoman War was a very brief affair that involve Ottoman forces moving into position to attack, but never having the chance. The Turk/Spanish Alliance was cancelled in the late summer, followed by a DoW by Turkey in September. The war was official by October.

The Egyptian Army was loaded on the Turkish Fleet at the beginning of the war. The Plan was to sail to Valencia or South France to disembark. The overriding consideration in this operation was to have a safe landing zone. The Ottoman Army cannot make an amphibious assault-it lands disordered and would be massacred. I needed to land in a French controlled province-or at least one where no Spanish forces were capable of reaching for at least one turn. The area would also have to be supplied, which I could handle-even across the entire Mediterranean Sea-for a few months anyway.

The Invasion Fleet move only about halfway across the sea in the initial phase. Another Army was moving as quickly as possible to West Egypt to invade Tripoli. In November, the Fleet was ordered back to the Adriatic and to land at Anacona while the forces in Africa reached their jump off point. By December, the battles were to begin in earnest. The first Army was then going to be transported by the Fleet across the Adriatic to reinforce the Egyptian Army which would have been in Italy already. This would have been a force of over 200,000 men in Italy to begin an unstoppable drive on Madrid.

The great surprise came at the end of November;Spain Surrendered to Turkey and England-but not to France. Turkey ended up with the cheapest victory imaginable, but Spain just gained 350 experience points. France was now once again fighting against Spain alone. France was now in a very good position to achieve victory, but the back stabbers to the north were still holding the dagger....

This is the Egyptian Army on board the Fleet in the Adriatic. They were just a bit too far to land in Anacona in November-or the surrender stopped the move.

The forces were ready in N. Africa.

In this situation map you can see the Fleet (with the Egyptian Army) adjacent to Anacona and the first Army in Illyria ready for transport ASAP.

The French Army had moved back into Venice, but I was not sure it would be safe to land there at that time.

Political Report
December 1801

Glory Changes
Note: The report gives a date of November, but the report was not made until the December turn.

Beginning Glory and Completed Developments
December 1801

December Ending Glory

Provincial Improvements

The are now 36 of 41 provinces being built up. It may appear that the number one priority, barrack, is not taking up enough positions. However, the way the plan is moving along, some developments are going forward at a low speed (to maximize production) while others, primarily barracks, are moving ahead at a high speed. The number of completed projects are mostly barracks.

Turkey has ended the year with an experience gain rate of 29. This is actually less than it was a year ago when much of Austria was occupied. The rate quarterly increase will expand considerably over the next year and a half. Before there is another war with Austria, Turkey will have a significant advantage in experience gain-although not in doctrines-yet.

The economy is noticeably stronger. Income has never been higher. With the end of any war for some time, development can at last be put on priority.

The year end national economic comparisons.

Very interesting sequence of events,this coupled with the french perspective gives an interesting account of what went on. Are you going to bring this close to current or are you not wanting to show your hand to the opposition?

I am going to bring this much closer to the current point. We just finished turn 141. This AAR is now up to Turn 115. After another few months the level of activity really drops off. Everyone is working on the economy or building up their forces for the next war.

I am not too concerned about security leaks from this thread. I am sure that my past opponents had good intel on my dispositions anyway. I will hold back on publicizing any military operation until after it is rolling along.

France had captured Madrid, but the arrival of large Spanish forces necessitated the withdrawal of the French Army. It did garrison Madrid before withdrawing.