I'm playing Empire: Total War right now as Great Britain. The game's a bit broken, since I started the campaign before the patch came out that would let the AI use ships to launch naval invasions (which means London and Edinburgh will never, ever be touched), but I just wanted to get to know the game. The year is 1740 - after making British India a reality and folding the Thirteen Colonies into the Empire (which involved securing Quebec, which I did by buying it off the French), I turned my attention onto the great Franco-Spanish alliance. Due to the presence of large numbers of French troops in Calais, I had to land my twelve full stack armies in Normandy, and a further six in Bilbao, Spain. By this point, the French Empire had rampaged across Europe, reaching the gates of Berlin and annexing everybody from Amsterdam to Austria along the way, at which point I decided I had to act before the unification of continental Europe made an invasion impossible (I also needed Gibraltar, but I couldn't declare war on Spain without dragging France in, either). Within a year, I had captured Madrid and Paris, and set about defending the west side of the Seine against French counterattacks while renplenishing the units lost in the Battle of Paris with late arrival armies from India.
That's the thing I like most about Total War games: They make for some really good alternate history stories :P
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