Earlier today the skies over
Spa Belgium were filled with the majority of the Alliances
Aeronef fleet. 7 squads in all, assembled from all three current
member nations. Despite the
sheer show of force the military practice
maneuvers were far less impressive. Early in the day a turn in the weather scattered the Luxembourg ships to the wind, quite
literally. It took
the remainder of
the day for their forces to
regroup. The
Belgian forces proved just as ineffective when the
battle cruiser Leopold and its escort became lost in a cloud bank and
narrowly avoided crashing into a mountain top.
Showing a bit more promise the Danish fleet held
their formation and completed
there practice bombing run. despite this many
commanders complained that their crews were uninspired and generally "
lethargic". Even worse the captain of the battle cruiser Kiel was
rumoured to have taken command of the ship while Stuttering drunk.
Few
commanders were willing to comment on the days exercises, with one notable exception. Lord
Amedeo II of Belgium, captain of the pocket battleship Charles, and organizer of the event. He simply exclaimed "God himself couldn't save us if the Germans or Austrians were to attack
tomorrow. Let us all prey
they have more pressing matters to attend to
elsewhere."
Thankfully the Germans and Austrians seem to have overlooked all alliance actions so far. If they were observing today surley they would have been infinantly ammused. We can only hope for better results in the future.