In my campaign, I am the British-born commoner, Joshua Spanvard. I enlisted in Britain's Army and was assigned to a regular foot regiment as a Private. There was no Marshall yet, however, so fighting was delayed for a while. We were at War with the Dutch, the French, and the Bavarians. Italy and all of them were to far away for us to care about. About 10-20 days in game (I wasn't paying attention), the Duchy of Warsaw was totally decimated by the, you may have guess it, the Austrians. I didn't even know about it until I got the Faction destroyed pop-up. The French decided to take the offensive on us, not striking any villages but immediately attacking Sheffield. My first siege was their first attack on Sheffield, and we successfully defended the town after our new Marshall made a call to arms and marched on the French host. There were a few skirmishes here and there after the French host scattered, and they retreated afterwards. We stayed on the defensive, rarely launching attacks. It didn't take very long, but the French were back, once again attacking Sheffield. They succeeded in taking it, but it didn't last long. We took it back shortly after we gathered our troops. The French once again retreated back to France. Coming back to economic affairs in England, some random lord was given Sheffield, and I was given the honour of becoming the lord of the very rich village of Nottingham, even though I was a lowly, dirt poor Private with 10 renown
. Since nothing was happening for a while, I decided to brawl in the local hidden boxing societies throughout Britain. I was so good that they decided to start throwing two people at me at once instead of one person. Finally, we the Brits went on the offensive, but not against the French. We struck the Dutch, laying siege to one of their towns. The French came back however, and decided to be sneaky. They did a full scale invasion on our poor island while were away, attacking London and Sheffield at the same time. Our Marshall got spooked, and ran back home to defend. The first defence was played at London, the Officers of Britain were however too lazy to come save their own Capital. So it was me and a few others defending London. The French had almost a 1000 in combined troops, and we only had below 400. The outcome? We defended London, taking minimal casualties and outright destroying those Frenchies. Sheffield was next, the force attacking it was small however and I paid no mind and decided to hunt Pirates.
So, what is happening currently in my campaign? Well, Britain now has a truce with the French, the Dutch, and the Bavarians. We are still at war with the Italians, but we are ignoring them currently. I worked my way up the ranks to Sergeant and switched to a Grenadier Regiment. I had a hard time gaining renown as I had to go to the ends of the Earth and back to find bandits to fight (there seems to be quite a lack of them). The Austrians made peace with the Bavarians, but are still fighting the Dutch and French. Hanover switched hands a few times, first being owned by the French, being taken by the Austrians, then the Dutch swooped in and took it. What am I doing currently? I am running around Denmark like a crazed maniac with an old sailor/pirate guy who is also crazy, made him the NCO of the 12 95th Rifle Recruits I have currently. I've been fighting there as well, and got totally annihilated by a bunch of sailor looking land bandits with giant knives.
That's about it so far, I must say that it hasn't been a hundred days yet, and the only factions taking territory currently are the Austrians and the Dutch. The Russians are just chilling in Russia, Prussia is doing its own thing, the Duchy of Warsaw is dead and being more dead, and us Brits are just being fat, feasting, and sitting on our fiefs. The Italians are, well, I don't know. They haven't done a single thing all game, and I haven't bothered in visiting them.
(starting options 100 renown so that is why. Will be changed by Docm I'd imagine because it is too high to start off with 100)
