Year of to rather a nasty start with draw of Famine event meaning we are both reduced to 4 instead of 5 action cards this turn. I drew 4 x 2 actions.
Fairly uneventful year compared to previous with the curtailed Campaigning season.
Bourbons being in strong position mainly beefed up their army Corps.
Only in Spain did they manouvre with an army moving to Madrid to thwart my plans there.
For my part (ie Allies) I too restored a few Corps.
I did lay siege to Ostend with Galway managing to bypass Fortified Lines.
I also moved to besiege Naples which turned out rather risky as the Army involved had no line of communication to home so suffered a -2 siege modifier !
Of course Galway failed at Ostend whilst Naples fell to besiegers gaining me 2VPs hurrah !
1710 turn about to begin and first year that Peace Negotiations between Britain and France can occur at year end so will be interesting to see how this transpires.
Overall situation at end of 1709 (no real change except the fall of Naples to Allies)
Years end in Austria and Northern Italy
Flanders stalemated again
Bourbons consolidate in Spain
Nice to see that the pace has dropped off for a turn. It's a sign of a good game where both or one side can pause in preperation for another heavy year.
ReplyDeleteReally enjoying this report
Ian
It's cool watching this unfold - almost like following a miniatures campaign.
ReplyDeleteI had 2 '2' cards and 2 '1' cards as the Bourbons, so the pace had to drop off from my point of view :-) I'm just glad that there were only 4 phases this turn.
ReplyDeleteGary is doing a splendid job of relating the game as it happens.
Norman