Venice AAR:
What a crazy session. So, we left off with Venice embroiled in a costly war against the Mamluks, but the tide had begun to turn against Venice's foe, with both Oman and the Ottoman's DOWing the Mamluks towards the end of last session. My mercenary army (no sense wasting Venetian lives in that damn desert) once again crossed into Mamluk territory from Morocco, and began sieging provinces, awaiting the inevitable counterattack. Which never came. Clearly the Mamluk army had run off, afraid of Venetian superiority. Claims that the Ottomans had infact wiped them out, thus doing Venice a huge favour, are to be entirely rejected. End result of that war was that Venice took four provinces, including the city of Alexandria, and access to the Red Sea.
I then settled down to recover from that costly war, paying off loans, rebuilding manpower and firing mercenaries. During this time Europe erupted into utter chaos. Morocco, after conquering part of Iberia, collapsed into a mess of rebels, revolutions and anarchy, splitting up into multiple different countries. Then Burgundy's weak king was overthrown by a pretender, and again split into multiple different countries, which were quickly preyed upon by the bigger fish in Europe. Meanwhile I took the opportunity to conquer Tuscany, who had been left alone and friendless, Florence's mighty fort proving no barrier to Venetian cannons.
It was at this time that the collapse of Burgundy started a continent wide war, France/GB/Scandinavia and Aragon vs Brandenburg and most of what was left of the HRE. After seeing the Germans suffer a defeat during a monstrous battle near Trier, I figured it might be an opportune time to join in. For totally honourable and legitimate reasons, of course, and not at all because I wanted to kick some German arse.
Turned out that German arse is tougher than I thought, so after besieging the provinces I wanted, I called in the Commonwealth and strategically advanced my armies back into Venice itself, to hide behind the wooden wall that is my fleet. Truly, Venice's army is the wonder of the world.
Provinces Gained: Alexandria, Damietta, Rosetta, Suez, Tuscany
Provinces Lost: None
