This is mostly a reply to David.
I guess that most of the reason I saw England as an enemy was the fact that I supported Norway against him early. I never stopped trying to help Norway make a stand against England, until Noray started trying to take Kiel. Even though England wasn't really out to get me, they were the only one of my neighbors who I hadn't been relatively friendly to so far.
I'd almost forgotten the convoy to Picardy. That was a horrible mistake on my part; as I wrote to Jen in my commentary at the time:
Believe it or not, I actually saw the potential for the convoy to Picardy, but I didn't see the threat it posed to Paris (just to Belgium), or I might have tried to stop it. Now I've lost Paris, and England will only drop one unit this year.I was prepared to play games with Belgium, but letting the English army roam around the French countryside was a horrible mistake. I haven't thought about it in a while, but at the time, I saw that as another crucial turning point, where England when from being on-the-run and almost-dead to looking like he was going to survive thanks to our inability to chase down that last unit while keeping up the front.
-Lowlands
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