Originally posted by Rasputin
In fact, I was building up to attack England at the time when India launched its wicked and completely unprovoked (but great fun) attack on me - I think that England knew this at the time, it was certainly moving defenders to the front, and was unsupportive in the face of India. In a way the fact I was preparign for war saved me, because it did mean I had some reasonable forces built up, and so was surprisingly able to defeat the Indian invaders. Unfortunately, the losses I suffered against India meant any attack on England was out of the question at that time. It also meant that revenge against India became the higher priority (coupled with the fact that their attack on me proved to me what you who were closer to India perhaps already knew, that they were completely dominant and so only a co-ordinated effort against India would have any hope of challenging them, which in the end in a way we organised those it failed). (Also, I was close to attacking England earlier at the time of the 4/5 small nation attack on them. I would have been very happy to coordinate an attack with them, but they never spoke to me about it, and launched the attack when my army was still overseas facing Russia. Again, I think England knew this because at that time they signed a treaty with Persia for mutual defence if either were attacked me by - talk about surrounded by bigger nations!).
Where you are right, is that in the 24 hours after the failure of the India attack, when Basil died and I rethought - what does this mean for Byzantium? - I realised that there maybe was then a chance to go back to the old enemy of England. Yes, England's losses in that war were significant in that calcualtion, but I had lost lots too - 17 tanks never mind infantry and artillery. To be honest more to the point was that while I was still on full military production England had stopped. I was producing three tanks a turn, and it was producing nothing. So by four or five turns later there was a massive inbalance in forces.
We are not going to see those events the same, I'm sure, and I'm not trying to argue the point, just answer your interesting question from my perspective. The important point for me, which I know others see differently, is that the India attack was completely genuine (unlike Persia's, you scheming *******) - it was designed to bring down an Indian tower, not to kill English troops to facilitate an attack on them, but yes once the smoke cleared I then did see an opportunity partly because of the scale of English losses and, as I say, the fact that they weren't building any new troops.
) (after I provoked you heavily indeed), but that's a part of the game.
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