Venice: All trade, all the time.
Also war. There may be some war.
Also war. There may be some war.
Well here's Venice:
Venice is, of course, a merchant republic. Note the lack of a legitimacy icon at the top of the screen, that is not something republics have to deal with. What do republics get in return? Well they change leaders more often so they don't have to stick with a bad ruler for too long, and they are more tolerent of other religions, and while I'm here let me also show the starting CoT values:
Starting out I DoW Zeta for my core and grab a rear admiral from the starting advisor pool. However there's no one else I like so I use my cultural tradition to create 2 treasurers. I get lucky and they are both 2 stars, I was only expecting single star advisers with this much tradition, but I'm not going to complain.
I also move my slider one step towards naval, although about 2 minutes later I realised I'd misread the decision I'd been looking at and that Athens + Zeta didn't count as overseas. Duh.
I unpause and invade Zeta with 2 units. PAP and HUN offer me alliances so I accept.
While sieging Zeta a crusade is called upon Granada, since I'm allied with the Pope I join in and DoW them. Of course, the crusade bonus doesn't hurt either, and now it also grants Papal Influence:
I fail to spot some transports from Algiers sailing past to invade Crete. My fleet sinks them as they return home, but Algerians are sieging Crete.
Luckily the current Pope is a firm believer in conversion by the sword. He lands an army in Crete and quickly converts all the Algerian troops into corpses.
With the Algerian transport sunk and Castille sieging Granada there's no danger of futher invasion. In fact, Algiers sees which way the wind is blowing and offers a white peace which I accept.
I've recieved a mission to conquer Aquilla, but they're part of the HRE while I am not, so Bohemia would likely protect them, even if they weren't allied. I'll have to bide my time for now.
I try to invite Bavaria to join my trade league, but they refuse. Right now they're trading through my CoT anyway, so their joining wouldn't do much for me directly, but it would prevent any other leagues from inviting them to their leagues. Sadly they refuse.
Meanwhile peace has broken out as the Pope has invaded and annexed Granada and I've annexed Zeta. Achaea and Naxos are allied to Aquilla, so I moved my two regiments to Athens rather than bring them home.
I've also secured an alliance with Austria, who I hope will be able to shield me against Bohemia.
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