

The occupation of London began when a second invasion force landed on the shores of Ireland. The Battle of London took place in 1862, when 250,000 British soldiers died at the hands of 650,000 attackers, most of them in artillery units. Then came the invasion force, elite Italian shock troops backed up by thousands of Malagasy infantry. With the British fleet vanquished and their only major ally rendered inert, the Italian navy enacted a full blockade around the British Isles. In the east, I swept into the Russian border with a massive Japanese force. Russia had no way of getting to me except by way of wooden boats that got ripped apart by the French ironclads. Prussia and Austria were having their 52nd tiff over hegemony, so they kept out of the war. Russia was at war with China, which I influenced into fighting Britain as well. The French and Portuguese joined Italy (which I now called the Roman Catholic Empire) against Britain, but when I added the conquest of Wales to my war goals, Russia declared a war of containment against me. When Great Britain declared war on me in 1856 in the name of securing Japanese territory, I destroyed their navy in an epic battle in the English Channel and took their African holdings. I like to think of my soldiers as fanatical warrior monks spreading the faith with cannons. I started a game as the Papal States and ended up unifying Italy and conquering all of Africa and Japan.
