Bougainville

Thank you for the free ports

It's always our pleasure to indulge in your literature.

Yes you do. I say there was a British empire before 1778.

Our hulls are made of baguettes, Our sails tinted of fine wine Our cannons smoke cigarettes Let loose our cheeses-of-the-line!

Of course we have to argue! This is how we keep ourselves entertained while sailing the long way to Panama.

"in return"??? This said without the slightest ounce of irony from me, if there is any quality I sincerely admire in the British, it is their remarkable talent to tell the most fascinating tales. Dracula, Frankenstein, Sherlock Holmes, Harry Potter, Alice in Wonderland, etc... Britain has graced the world with the most inventive, elegant and entertaining fiction ever written. Now, would you please entertain us with yours, of a timeline so evidently inverted it could only have happened in a parallel universe? How do we gain access to it? I bet it is through a portal in the Greenwich observatory.

La pasión de la destrucción!

Precisely. This one was so elaborate and expensive you had to pay thirteen colonies just to admire it.

I regret to inform you that we French, despite our recent setbacks, have not renounced our claim on the monopoly of Arrogance. However, our own brand of Arrogance™ doesn't merely consist in constantly belittling others in a drunken rage, like the rosbifs our desperate neighbours from across the Channel do, but to set the global standard of culture, elaborate fashion, good taste and enlightenment, leaving onlookers in awe. *strikes a pose*

Oh please. I would like to hear this from American lips.

I foresee a huge game of whack-a-mole across the entire Caribbean

It was a pleasure to receive kind words from you guys on our way West. If I may suggest, just let PFK and their likes have their sandbox brawl with DRUNK, while we grown-ups take on the big red troll sitting on the middle of the map.

I honestly fail to see where said pressing concerns actually lie.

That is true, Spain wasn't at war anymore with Britain after being evicted from Panama. This is where it all began.

We only wish it had always been the case.

I believe the sheer size of the British playerbase effectively prevents it from handling a single, coherent foreign policy. Therefore it is tempting to see every other faction turning against them as the game regulating itself, so to speak.

That's why sad lion looks sad.

That's not how I recall our exchanges with PFK

Honor dictates that there be no place at the side of someone who taught his men to "hate the French like the devil", even at the cost of defeat. Although it makes me smile that his own conduct of marital affairs qualifies him as more French than he would admit.

You might want to specify the server in the thread's title, next time.

It couldn't hurt to have a static view of a 3d port with clickable buildings, though

Erm... you may have missed the time when they actually went for Perdernales, yesterday evening. Anyway, we are not miserable as to seize this gross violation of the cease-fire terms as a petty excuse to inva....er, to retake what is ours. We leave it to them and their lack of will, of honor I dare say, to meet the obligations of their word and confront Sweden as they so fiercely pretented they would. Lest the weight of shame upon their shoulders sink their entire nation into the depths of the ocean. And there will be no amount of polder engineering that will prevent this.

Looking at the thread's title I, for a moment, thought this was about a war between Danes and Norwegians. Allow me to express my most sincere disappointment.

I agree. Yet it is rather unfortunate that this "away" we fled too often to, happened to be in the general direction of your possessions. Apologies for the footprint on your gums, sir.

That's a remarkable narrative, a true fairy tale. However, here's what I read: "French conquered from us with bloody fights the ports that we initially collected from the non-existent Spanish on the coast of Venezuela, while we PFK were seizing their possessions from Maracaibo to Panama, equally poorly defended, until we were rebuffed several times around Cartagena. That is, until the British attacked RAE from behind and wiped them there too. Then we tried to negociate peace when we met with the lobsterbacks, hoping that it wouldn't show on the forums (too bad it did) all the while turning east with the cunning masterplan to cry for help from the Danes, because even combined with DAS/BOAT we couldn't make significant advances past the Maracano/Pampatar front before. This worked so well that we now feel naturally entitled to claim half a dozen cities without actually having to work for it, and anyone in our camp who dares to disagree is an undeserving cunt, even if he bore the brunt of the French assaults during the whole war." Have to admit I deem my own version more accurate.