ORIGINAL: Titi
Austria tried a counterattack in Italy spending a little more than half of her treasury for it. The corp alone sieging the capital of Piedmont and those forward in Lombardy were attacked but with poor results as Austrian forced were forced back from where they came.
November saw Austria surrender unconditionnally : Papacy, Switzerland and Piedmont joined the French sphere of influence; France gained access in Austian territories and a 3 year forced peace was enforced.
Austria was unlucky as Toscany and Romagna were occupied by Piedmont corps, so both provinces became neutrals and were shared one each by France and Austria in the next month.
1796 started by an inactive Spain still controlled by Russia being DOW by France. It was a phoney war as Spain surrender immediatly to France that accepted a conditionnal peace and took 24 month of peace and control of Naples.
The goal was to protect the fleet from British anger that is looking for any opportunity to DOW on Spain and at the same time to reduce PP of Russia that was again in the 15. What i add forgotten was that Sapin would call me and force me to broke the alliance.
However at first step of dominance, Russia is less a target for the others, at least it was what i thank.
1796 saw a French player broke the alliance with Russia, make an alliance with Prussia and gave back Saxony and Turkey landing two corps at Constantinople and marching those to the north while slowly marching three corps toward Poland. Prussia also allied with Turkey.
Everything was ready to a DOW of 4 countries to Russia.
In the 1792 scenario, Austria, Prussia, Spain, and Russia have to work together if they want any hope of stopping the quickly growing monster that will be 1805 France. It appears to me that Russia has not been a team player here, content to sell out Austria and Prussia in return for gaining dominant status. It will therefore end up facing France alone and will get what it deserves. It also appears that the British player has not been active enough in building a coalition and checking the avarice of the Russian Bear.