Worse news reaches Saxe Märchen

News has just clattered into Schloss Schonburg...it would seem that the proposed Saxon alliance with France has resulted in the French believing that the Saxe Märchen forces are available for their field army to deploy.

And the French want to see them muster by mid February as they plan to march out of winter quarters early to attack perfidious Albion. The French commander has written to say he will be coming down the Fluss and will pick them up on his way north.

Duke Werther is beside himself......mainly because neither the French nor the Elector have mentioned who will pay for his troops, and while the option of being tardy with the Elector was one thing, telling the French they are not ready when the French have an army parked on your beach is not so easy....