I'm betting that as soon as Brian is Consul, he will send a fast ship after us with orders to come back home.
THat is a possibility, but right now, you are not going to get a message until... after Sicily has been attacked and after he makes sure France won't implode because... dear lord, we have plans for the Life of Brian.
We'll start our expedition, smash Sardinia and Sicily, and open up a path between the routes of the Royal Navy.
Sardinia is a diplomatic expedition, Sicily is a military campaign.
That depends on what the three Consuls decide. I think at least Sicily is definitely still on the Table. Egypt...might be another matter.
Well it depends on how successful we are when we get to sicily.
If they don't start a comedy triple act I will be disappointed. Auclair, Bonaparte and Robespierre could be the Marx brothers of France!
... I mean they already are. Max is even the one everyone hates!
The British sugar interests are going to go utterly ape here. A slave revolt is knocking over Spanish islands, disenfranchising white "property owners" next door to the British occupied plantation islands? And the Royal Navy hasn't descended on them like the wrath of God?
TBF, after the shit show that was the war of the first coalition... Pitt was sacked, and they are trying to find a new man to take over and fix the problem.
There is also a... Considerable British fleet on the way to start bringing the Wrath of God on whoever gets in their way.
Pitt will not be remembered well in English history.
Pitt is going down as the man who could not stop France for situations that were entirely out of his control.
After all, who would expect some surveyors to cause so much trouble?
(And looking at what is going on in the British Caribbean, it looks like
the Second Maroon War would happen soon in our history. With the Haitians wrecking faces in the area, we might see a much worse 2nd Maroon War in Jamaica. I'll bet the British blame the French for it if it does.)
Oh yeah... and despite the Haitians doing so well, they are not equipped to handle a functioning naval force, or a highly drilled regular army.
Cause spain, did not have that.
Well yes. My point was that the failure to respond is going to increase British political turbulence. The big plantation families have a great deal of power in the British parliament since they use their wealth to buy rotten burroughs, that the Pitt government has given ships to France while letting the Caribbean get out of control is going to be a scandal.
Well...
We'll see who the prime minister is...
I don't know how to pick for a nat Crit, but everyone else is pretty much found out already.
