As one of the most powerful naval powers in Empire: Total War, Great Britain begins their campaign with an unusually high number of ports, navies, and three very good admirals. On land, Great Britain possesses statistically the best line infantry of all the factions, above average light infantry, average artillery, and good light and heavy cavalry. King William III is currently sitting the British throne. Hannover, Austria, the United Provinces and Portugal are all allies of Great Britain, with France and Spain being potential enemies. They will join the British Empire by completing a mission given by them that of defeating the Cherokees, and controlling Georgia and New France. The 13 colonies are a British protectorate, but are not directly controlled. Great Britain starts off with the British Isles and various colonies in America: Rupert's Land, the Bahamas and Jamaica. This, then, is the fundamental aim of Britain: to side with the weak in Europe against the strong – and steal as many overseas possessions as possible while doing it! A nation that can unite the resources of Europe will surely crush the dream of Albion. They are partly right, but only as long as there is no centralised Continental power. The English and Scots like to think that they can sleep safe, that no foreign invader or tyranny need worry them. With Dutchman William III on the British throne, there is ambivalence in the traditional rivalry with the Netherlands! The English Channel keeps the French at bay and, to a lesser extent, the Dutch.

Trade taxes pay for the navy the navy allows unhindered trade.

Despite – or perhaps because of – this turbulent history, Britain is an engine driving the scientific and cultural advancement of northern Europe: turmoil fuels creativity.Īs an island nation, Britons have always looked to, as Shakespeare puts it:īritain’s strength lies at sea, but in trade and colonisation as much as naval power. Nonetheless, the exiled James Stuart has sympathisers, the Jacobites, throughout Britain. A short, vicious war in Ireland put paid to any chance of a Catholic Stuart restoration. Less than 15 years ago, the hated Catholic James II was forced into exile in the Glorious Revolution and a Protestant monarchy restored. The new nation has been through a century of unparalleled turbulence: an unwelcome joining of Scotland and England religious strife civil wars an executed king military dictatorship a populist monarch restored and the overthrow of a second king. Great Britain is not a natural creation, but the marriage of separate kingdoms and peoples.

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