I sent rakes into France just to see what was going on. Apparently Savoy invaded for whatever reason. Like I said I dont know who originally attacked who because I was concentrating on taking over Italy at the time and wasnt paying attention to France, who I was friendly with and in a trade agreement. Anyway once I saw some smoke coming from a burning town I sent in rakes to investigate. By the time my rakes got in there Savoy had three armies going around looting and burning. French armies were more or less ignoring it too. There was one French army in Paris, two armies in Alasce-Lorraine, one army in western France where the English channel and Atlantic meet, and the French had an army down in Eastern Spain for some odd reason. France and Spain were allied.

About three turns after I got my rakes in place to observe the goings on one Savoy army took Paris. At that point the French armies in France began to get active and actively seek out the Savoy armies but they lost every fight against Savoy. After a couple of turns the French only had one badly beat army left in Alasce-Lorraine I then declared war on France and took Alasce-Lorraine thus destroying the French nation for good.

I quickly made a trade agreement and alliance with Savoy for 10,000 and took Flanders, Lombardy, Naple, and Sardinia from Spain. Which is where my campaign is so far. Savoy controls Savoy and France and allied to me and Spain is awaiting my assault. I may however go after France and Savoy first and then move onto Spain itself. I'll have to wait and see if Spain accepts a cease fire first or not.

I just find it amusing little Savoy took on and captured France. I've never seen Savoy do that before. Past times they just sit there and happily move their little armies around Savoy until attacked.