Your detachment of the Army of the Rhine, along with 40,000 troops will be transferred to Toulon, and you will be given an independent command, to secure our interests in Egypt and if you are successful, continued interests in India.
Reward: You have been promoted to Générale de Division. You have been given independent command of the Army of Egypt.
This is....better than the news I was expecting if this backfired.
I'm down for whatever.
So long as we go about things intelligently and have some luck, this might not go as badly as we think.
It seems someone in Government wants you as far as possible from France.
pretty much the farthest we can go while still having at least some reliable supply lines
Those are
not reliable supply lines. Men will starve. The question is how many, and how many before an alternate line of supply is established, if one is established at all.
1. Secure the Mediterranean, Red Sea, and Nile ports to transport men, supplies, and equipment across Egypt.
2. Secure Naval Vessels to transport the army to French Held Territory in India.
3. Take over India, or at the very least, find ways to disrupt British rule in India by way of diplomacy, armed conflict and other types of warfare, as well as making favorable trade deals with indian powers to gain huge quantities of wealth..
1. The Mediterranean would be hell to secure, the Red Sea is more doable, the Nile literally comes with the territory, if we can take it.
2. Insane, we should table that immediately until we have a reason to think it's possible.
3. Impossible without dice magic.
That is what your government wants. You, however, can have different goals, including straight up abandoning the campaign and doing something else,
force around 100,000 and see what you can do."
I have some fanciful ideas, but honestly we'll just have to see what we're dealing with when we make landfall.
Because that many men will be starving in a month if things don't go incredibly well.
Can we get an idea of what the children themselves would prefer?
I second this. I want to bring them with us because I don't trust France not to have some shenanigans go on.
I agree.
Then we can think of fortifying the Sinai line and afterward pushing to the west
I'm seeing a lot of people talk about Libya and Tunisia like they're somehow safer or more sustainable than Egypt when it's the complete opposites.
If we have an
easy opportunity to hit them, sure we should take them on in the
Eastern Mediterranean, but it's not worth the time, money, and blood otherwise.
if we don't involve ourselves in religious controversy and don't try to set up any tax on the locals we should have a good headstart on the Ottoman.
After we're done eating them out of house and home it won't matter what else we've done to them.
Or, go north from Egypt into Greece
The Ottomans are not free real estate.
They will absolutely destroy us if we try something like that.
