*destroys your armada*

*destroys your armada*

She got kind of lucky, to be honest. (saying this as a bong)

*destroys yours' back*

people never remember the squeakquel

would have been tough for the Spanish to occupy England and keep fighting the Dutch.

they could have probably forced some concessions on England though...Irish Independence, rights of Catholics, etc.

I member...

She looks unbelievably smug in that painting.

Yeah I'm not saying they would've been able to invade, but poor weather and Philip being dumb (if you need barges to get your men onto boats you're doing something wrong) mostly won the day. (also if she'd listened to Drake instead of being so indecisive she would've been able to really, really fuck the Spanish over hard)
Elizabethean period is fascinating though, England was pretty much run like a martial state. At some point three quarters of all living men had seen some form of combat

reminds me of the cadiz expedition later on:
>ships battered by storms on the way to cadiz
>spanish ships that could easily have been captured were left to escape
>unnecessary took a fort
>let the men drink from wine vats in local houses after realising there was no more food
>little to no men are sober at this point
>spanish arrive
>british leave without a single shot being fired
>try to intercept a fleet returning from the new world
>the fleet was diverted due to bad weather
>ships were in bad shape and men were dying of disease so they went home
>7k dead, 62 ships lost, fuck all done

Actually it was God that sunk that fleet