Background:
Prussia is tricky. You start with 1 army and a bunch of scattered troops. Your troops are well trained but it takes a few turns to get them organized. You are also in a horrible position, stuck between France and Russia. Either of these opponents could crush you in the start of the game, so it is important not to get on the bad side of either. The one benefit you do have is you start the game at war with NOBODY.
The game up till now:
I went bank-crazy this game. Paranoid that I would have cash troubles I made sure early that my banks were going to keep the money flowing. My first idea and a successful one was piggy-back on France's assault on Austria. I declare war early and take home two provinces worth 1 glory each. Or that was the plan at least. Spain took one of the two, so I only got a 1 glory province and the bonus for winning the 1 month war vs. Austria. Strangely enough the allies didn't seem to care and I am now 100% neutral again.
I use this time to ensure my protection by forming an alliance with Russia. I have no intention of declaring war on France so I form a free passage treaty and let Russia and France duke it out on my soil. Blood makes the grass grow, so why not?
Prussia has a number of "Neutral" objectives. I secure an alliance with Britain, which is the country they favor (mostly). I begin systematically capturing neutral territories worth Glory. My armies are growing by leaps and bounds. I now have 4 mobile armies (no corps yet, nor guards).
Spain decides to intervene on the behalf of some backwater country and declares war on me. This is good. They took Bohemia from Austria and that should have been mine. It's payback time. Spain's army is months away and is probably much weaker than mine. I use this time to capture the two spanish controlled provinces before their army arrives.
When it finally does I decimate it, but not before it retreats into a small british province and captures it. As soon as it does I march on what is left of their army then demand their surrender. They comply. I let them smack britain because of what was going on in the rest of the world during this time.
While I was wandering around the neutral territories France was defeated by Britain but DEFEATED russia! This puts everyone on pretty even ground betwee 200 and 300 glory. Britain takes the lead with France's surrender. I end up right behind them and will waver in and out of first place based on how wars are going. Spain's surrender was also to britain and russia, so it didn't gain me any ground other than the perminent capture of 1 glory/turn.
For the briefest moment I thought I was done with wars and could now focus on delivering a KO punch to Sweden (not only does their control of denmark cost me 1 glory per turn but also I know their major objectives are all Prussian, so I figured I would hit them before they hit me). Well, turns out Turkey wants to save Mecklemburg and declares war on me... Guess Sweden will have to wait.
And now I stand at the bring of war with the Turkish Empire. I myself have now reached Empire status but I am unsure of the size of Turkey's army, I don't want to risk LOSING empire status so I decline becoming an empire.
The Turko-Prussian War has begun... and that is where we stand. Strangely, I marched south through west Austria and they marched north through EAST austria. I left half my army behind to defend my home, the armies marching on the attack never saw eachother... kinda funny
I'll toss up a screenshot of the map as it stands in the current month, May 1808
-Joe
