Master and Commander

It is September of 1803 and that vile French dog, Bounaparte, has our forces on the retreat in the Iberian peninsula. Our generals thought to destroy Bounaparte's only stable ally while his forces were engaged against our own allies. The Redcoats and Cavalry are awaiting reinforcement by the elite Lifeguard units, but I fear that they may not last long enough to be supported. The Royal Navy maintains undisputed mastery of the North Atlantic and the Straits of Gibraltar, keeping the French and their Spanish allies in their ports for fear of our gun-crews, but this means little when the French forces need not take to the sea. The situation on the mainland is most discouraging. Our allies have sued for peace with France one after another, and soon it will be only his Majesty's sailors and marines who will be able to stand against Bounaparte.

I'd be scared of the Royal Navy if Russell Crowe were really a captain. He might hit me with a phone or something.

I'm playing the Napoleonic Campaign of CivIII and I'm finding that the French gain this strange advantage when fighting against enemy forces. You see, whenever a military unit attacks them, they gain an amazing +10 billion defense, and whenever they attack another countrie's unit they gain the same amount of attack bonus as defense. This is a very serious concern when attack and defense is normally measured in single digits. Mikie has beaten the campaign as Das Vaterland already, but I am not as ambitious, instead trying my skill with the naval might of Great Britain. I feel the need; the need to read.