Here is my latest game as Venice:
Things have went down well, I first conquered Friuli, than warred on Ferrara and got Modena + Ferrara. I than joined in on a war against the papal state, sienna, pisa, and Umbria, with Milan. Milan got the best of this deal, it was clear it would be between me and them for control of Italy. (I believe at one point in the game, Venice was number 1 in world and Milan number 2 in Europe). I must also mention I`m making a shitload of money.
I spammed a Merc army, and invaded Milan`s vassal, Mantua. I invaded Milan at 3 points. (2 from Roma up, and 1 from Treviso (which also got Mantua). I annexed Mantua and was pushing Milan into Lombardia. Tuscany and Genoa wasn`t happy with me and declared war on my the month before i got peace with Milan for all their states except for Lombardia.
I crushed and annexed Liguria and Tuscany with 1 battle each. (and the following battles with their troops running around my land.
) I was about to invade and annex Milan when Switzerland sent me a warning. So i annexed Lombardia and took Schwyz and settled for peace.
I then spent two decades getting rid of rebels and i`m still having troubles with them, especially in the south in Roma, Romagnia and Urbino. During this time I got stinking rich.
Than once the rebels started to cool down with only Lombardia and those 3 i mentioned earlier with revolt threat, I looked down to Napoli, it seems like they were at war with Ottomans, Aragon and Sicily. It also looks like the Ottomans have conquered most of their territory, and settled for peace with 1300 ducats, So I took the pleasure of invading and strolling through their empire which was quite simple as all the provinces had like 300 garrisons and morale was at near zero. I took all their territory aside from their southernmost which Sicily got.
Interestingly enough, Sicily gauranteed their former enemy Napoli, so I took the second pleasure of streamrolling and annexing through Sicily and Napoli. I now spend most of my time becoming richer, stopping revolts and improving my horrible reputation(i`m dishonorable scum that is hated throughout the world, and majority of nations in Europe have -200 with me!
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Now for the rest of the world as it stands on 1462:
England will likely become UK in this game. England is also hated throughout the world (as a result of annexing Ireland), and was in war with half of Europe for 20 years. In this time, England has lost alot, but gained alot. By lost alot, at one point it looks like England will fall when they were forced to peace releasing 3 irish states, cornwall, northumberland as independent states. Since then, England gained most of it back, including taking Brittany and a stronghold in Scandinavia.
Castille gobbled up Navarra and Granada. Aragon declared on Castille and took some provinces including Madrid. In the peace deal Castille let go Navarra, Grenada and Galicia. Portugal took Galicia, Aragon took Navarra and Castille cut down Grenada. Castille than declared on Aragon and took their states as well as Navarra.
Castille also took an African stronghold. They look ready to form Spain.
Most interesting area of development. First of all, the ottomans didn`t really do all that well. It took them 3 decades to take Thrace, and where badly defeated by Hungary in a war and had to give up several possessions. (various greek states and Kuraman).
Bosnia and Serbia are muslim allies of the ottomans. The Golden Horde did really well and got deep into Hungary till Hungary got elected papal controller, launched a crusade against them, and Poland-Lithuania beat them down with a stick... HARD. Hungary had it`s losses though, they had to release Croatia, (My Istria was gifted to them, the rebels there were particularly bad) they also had to release Transylvania and Wallachia. Hungary later got a truce with the Golden Horde, and made them release Moldovia and Crimea. Lithuania got 2 central asian states independent as well as Zaporozhia. Golden Horde is now a shadow of it`s former self.
Nowadays, Zaporozhia was warmongering. They annexed Moldovia, claimed the throne and annexed Transylvania, took a state of Crimea and started the downfall of Georgia. They are now probably going to be a key player in the Balkans history.
One last thing, Georgia was HUGE! They were a force to be reckoned with! They controlled all of the Caucasus, had all of Northern and Eastern Anatolia, and several other possessions. Zaporozhia started to beat them down to size though, the army was annihilated and they went to arms against the ottomans over the sovereignty of Montenegro.
They got steamrolled in the south and let go their Anatolian possessions by either ceding or by new states. They also had to let go Armenia, the two Azerbaijani states, their persian possessitions and several others.
I saved before Georgia got destroyed so I can play with them later.
France has defeated Burgandy, and will soon achieve blob status. German states are warring. England has a stronghold on Scandinavia, Sweden is warring and will probably annex Norway and Denmark in the future. Denmark is reduced to a small state in Sweden and Kobenhavn as the Platenite has their mainland possessions. Bohemia grew, Poland grew as well, Lithuania is achieving blob status. Surprisingly, Poland-Lithuania is becoming close to it`s historic borders. The battle to form Russia is now between Novgorad and the Muscovy as the Golden Horde is no longer a threat. Hungary is neutered and Austria has collapsed to a small state as Tyrol and Styria gained independence following their war against Bohemia. The Teutonic Order will probably form Prussia in the future I think.
Anyway, it looks like the plot is already made for the future of Europe. Let`s recap, universally hated England will become UK, Powerful French blob, Castille forming Spain, a united Italy, a not so strong Ottomans, a more balkaned balkans, a neutered Hungary, the medieval powers of Georgia and the Golden Horde gone, a new state, Zaporozhia rising to power, a strong Poland-Lithuania, a collapsed Italy, a deranged Scandinavia, a German mess, a grand war over Russia between Novgorad and Muscovy and a possible Prussia under the Teutonic Order.
I like my game so far!
France is becoming huge! Moldovia suceeds from Zaporozhia
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I was building ships to try and land in Africa.
