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Quote[/b] ]and just to clarify, it is ok to declare war on the english,yes, if they have our homelands?
Yes, Major^3, it is OK, but only if they have our homelands. This goes for any power that has our homelands. Later on it's going to be Byzantines with their island of Rhodes, if memory serves correctly.
However, you must remember that if you start a war with the English because they have our homelands, then you must restrict your conquest to those homelands ONLY.
Well, let me know if you need some other clarifications.

I took a look at the current situation of French Kingdom, and not all is bad. In fact we are doing OK, or so it seems. We are somewhat behind on the GA scale with only 16 points. Byzantines and numerous other countries lead the GA race with 26 points. However all that is about to change once we start acomplishing some GA goals.

A remarkable thing was observed by one of our princesses. Tripoli is currently controlled by Rebels. It may seem very exciting at first as the thought of bribing them is very very very tempting; however, this would violate the Crusade to Tripoli GA goal. Bottom line is that Tripoli must be captured by a crusade. On the positive side, if Tripoli does remain in rebel hands before it is captured by a crusade, then we would not have to fear the reprisals and massive build up of AI armies in that province as the factions normally do. But I think that this scenario is unlikely.

I must say Mount Suribachi did a commendable job on developing the infrastructure of France. I did some calculations, and we can reach the coast of Tripoli in 13 years assuming nonstop production and calm seas. Oh yes, we would have to make some sacrifices to Poseidon to keep the seas calm as a loss of even a single ship can put us back by 3 years.

Germans are still ready to pounce on us, their massive armies on our borders are not gathered there for a picnic. however, so far they havent done it so maybe we will be spared, who knows.

Finally, Aquitaine is in our GA homelands. So this gives us a reason to declare war on the Brits and take our province. It would link up Brittany and Toulouse and also cut off the Brits in Navarre. Hopefully that will make the small garrison in there rebel, in which case we can take it, thus having impenetrable and the most secure border on the south with Navarre and Aragon as border provinces.

Enough of my musings.
Cheers,
Rev