I had a similar experience as Sweden yesterday. Dead in 1705 on VH/VH :)
As before I would make sure someone gets into a few wars and attack them; Lithuania/Poland were attacked by Ottomans, Austrians and Prussia, so I chose them as a target.
I concentrated all my forces in eastern europe (bribed Demnark, got trade agreement, allied with prussia, etc). Attacked and captured Courland, Vilnius and Minsk. Got a Dow from Russia (as expected), killed off their attackers at StPetersburg and moved on towards moscow.
Left a small force in Vilnius to kill off Polish raiders...
Then the BRITISH declare war on me!They land in SWEDEN (my capital region) with 1 full stack and 1 half stack; after letting the troops go, their NAVIES SINK MY NAVY
. No way I can get my armies back now :(
Next turn the British capture Stockholm and - amazingly - leave the HALF STACK there and move the full stack back into the ships... and to Finland....The goddamn AI was blitzing!!!!
Ok it did leave the troops in finland for 1 turn doing nothing, but there was no way I could get there in time...
I must admit I quit the game; hopeless, after 2 stacks of russians showed up near moscow...
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