Quote Originally Posted by Kulgan View Post
This is correct. There was no such thing as massive invasions, givven a few exceptions.

- The invasion of England by spain's ' grande armada ' which was sunk by the weather and the english fleet ( francis drake etc )
- The invasion in the 13 colonies after declaring independence by england
- Napoleon was about to invade England in 1804 ( camp de boulougne ) but then he had to move his troops to austria to prevent a coalition between austria and russia ( battle of austerlitz )
While not exactly D-Day scale operations you also have, among others:

- the glorious revolution of 1688 (William the third brought a Dutch army along)
- the Spanish invasion of Ireland in support of the O'Neill rebellion of 1604
- Pretty much any English operations in continental Europe (or is it only a naval invasion if it goes from Europe to Britain?:p) from the failed intervention in the Dutch war of independence to the Napoleonic wars...

I think any of these are of at least the same scale as the planned armada invasion (12000 soldiers under the duke of Parma IIRC). Vastly improved naval transport is a defining feature of the period.

I've had serious naval invasions conducted against me in Rome btw (in the same predictable order as in M2 whoever holds Greece goes for Rhodos, and whoever holds Rhodos goes for Halicarnassus in Turkey), but I guess that was only added in a patch.