Quote Originally Posted by Slaists View Post
Especially the French are dangerous: they have many small fleets hanging around the channel: all of those tend to attack British ports upon English declaring war on French or vice versa. Placing a unit of milia in each England's trading port is a good idea too (the enemy fleet cannot take the port over (necessitating an extra turn for port repairs, which would be impossible if the treasury was in red) that way: they can just blockade it and trade can resume as soon as the enemy fleet is removed.
Good recommendation about the garrison. In my game, the French fleets were mostly docked. I had to flush them out with a depleted land unit that occupied their ports. Then my fleet of 4th, 5th & 6th rates and brigs blasted them out of the water. I even captured several 6th rates & brigs...