UPDATE FIVE:
From Archeological findings, we now know that
Egypt went through severe dry years, but it did not entirely collapse due to grain from Antioch. It did however destroyed the former powerhouse into a weak poor state.
The Egyptian army decreased its ranks dramatically, and most of its cities were abandoned to the villages. The Capital did remain, and one of history's legendary love stories happened between the king of
Antioch and the princess of Egypt. The Pharao saw this and tought of it as an opportunity not only to repay antioch, but to make sure that the Lands of egypt would remain strong forever. He would propose a marriage between the royal houses of Antioch and Egypt to unify the empires... it was only for Antioch to respond now...
From Egypt:
To Antioch:
Let a marriage of blood become the ties between our nations and our peoples...
Victory was nowhere certian when the epic war between
Rome and
Venetia started. Venetia had won some ground and morale boosts. But the size of the Roman army could not be understimated, and Venetia was going against a power twice as powerful. Not many records remain today of how exaclty the Venetians gained some ground in the start of the campaign, but we do know that they were able to take and burn a city. (Altough had no time to gain any wealth from it). The Venetians Fought and held down the Romans perfectly well for a long time, winning several small but undecisive battles.
Despite its success on holding down the Roman legions, it was completely stretched to its limits. And the roman triumph card came as Ceasar knew, not by Roman military strenght entirely, but by the diplomatic agreements with the
Genevans.
The Genevan forces marched down towards Venice, and there was few or nothing to hold back the army numbering over 20 divisions. After a short siege, the City of Venice fell to the Genevans, and was occupied. The Venetian leadership did escape, but defeat is closeby. After the fall of Venice, the armies in Italy fell into chaos and only re-organized to halt a Roman army headed to destroy and burn the one city in the italian coast. The Romans will stop at nothing until they burn each Venetian city and kill each of its citizens.
Venetia would have long ago fall altogether if it wasnt for its navy, which was the primary form of transportation. The Remains of the Venetian forces are either defending the city under siege by Roman legions or the somewhat safe temporary capital.
The Genevan forces are unable to push forward, as its supply lines have reached its limits and the several generals controlling it never go a day w/out heated discutions over the way the army should be used.
Is this the End of Venetia?
Rome -16 divisions, Venetia -12 Divisions, Geneva -4 divisions, Venetian M/Leadership +1
From Rome:
to Venetia:
EMPEROR HAVALEI!....give me back my cities!!.
Kalmar went through another war of survival, this time not from
Swedish power, but from
Lithuania
instead. The war was not as devastating as the Kalmar armies were more ready and the great river served to hold down the Lithuanians. Casualties were not very high on both sides. As Kalmar quickly forgets the Swedish enemy, they might now rally to crush their new neighbors, or cease to exist altogether.
Kalmar -4 divisions, Lithuania -6 divisions
The Power of
Byzantium grows with nothing to hold it back, or at least not yet. They are by now seen as an aggresive expansionist in the Aegean, and the Greeks know this!. The Houses of
Athens and
Sparta watch carefully as the great nation that diminished the power of
Troy continues to expand. But Byzantium does have a new border w/ the nation of
Crimea, and this might take some of its attention away from the area.
Some citizens of
Crimea joined the ranks of the army to help fight off petty barbarians on its expanding borders.
+3 Crimean Divisions
Other nations continue to grow and thrive, but lack anything of interest worth pointing out in our modern history books.
UPDATE MONDAY, NO MATTER HOW MANY ORDERS I HAVE.