I am playing Venice “Land of Griffon” from 1419 to 1819. Difficulty is normal and AI Aggressiveness is also normal.
This is my first time writing AAR. I just hope this will work.
My first goal, are to recover all core provinces which are Mantua, Ragusa, Morea and Cyprus. Once that was done, what next? Hmm, Good Question.
Chapter 1, Part 1: And so it begins.
Recently, the decline of the Venice Republic made people so fed up with their government. So the government of Venice Republic fallen under the revolution of the people. And out of that ashes of the Government, are the group of nobles who sworn to restore their Republic to the height of her power. So that group of nobles formed High Council. It would compose of the:
Council Leader, Tommaso Mocenigo who is the chairman and made the final decisions.
Rodolfo, his job is Administration Councillor, who deals with taxes and expense.
Angelo, his job is Army Councillor who of course deal with army and responsible for maintenance of its men and equipment.
Luciano, his job is Diplomacy Councillor who deals with other nations and gauges their reactions to Venice’s triumph and mistakes.
Enrico, his job is Navy Councillor who of course deal with navy and responsible for maintenance of its men and equipment
Rinaldo, his job is Religion Councillor who deals with church and the public relation. He is Catholic, but understands the position of other religion which is rare and very good idea since, most of her island provinces are in fact Orthodox.
Each of these Councillors got depended on each other. Army and Navy depended on Administration for their wages and may God help Administration if he does not have any money at all.
On the New Year’s Day, the first meeting was took place in Macenigo’s palace. It was midday and the High Council was having a small lunch. On the old but best quality wooden table, Mocenigo sat at the head of the table, while other sat in the seats around the table. Angelo and Enrico sat opposed to each other, same thing occurred with Luciano and Rinaldo. Rodolfo sat opposed Mocenigo.
Mocenigo told the group “Welcome to the council, I hope we do much better jobs than our previous Government. We must restore Republic to her height but first let hear what you got say about your responsibility. Rodolfo, shall you start?”
Rodolfo laughed at the group and said “Well, after paying the Army and Navy, also the groups of scientists to develop the technology for the good of the Republic, we only have 500 ducats left in the treasury. It is of course, a bad new since we thought that we had more ducats left to play with. Anyway, I started a Republic-wide, promotion of Tax-collectors so we can improve our income. However these mean we only have 200 ducats left.” The cries of the councillors can be heard across the Gulf of Venice. Angelo screamed at Rodolfo “What do you mean we only had 200 ducats left, you big spender, you just used half of our treasury. Why, I declare a due….” But he was suddenly quieted down when he saw Mocenigo’s rapier across his throat. Mocenigo said “I think you better not say that, we are the High Council, we do not fight among each other as long as I said so. Understand?” Angelo paled and nodded very quickly. Mocenigo went back and sat down on his seat. Rodolfo continued, “But I hoped that the tax we would get from our people would replace the money I used for the Republic.” Mocenigo said “Hmm, let hope it did work. So what about you? Enrico.”
Enrico sighed and said “We got 5 warships, 30 Galleys and 5 Transport under the command of Admiral P. Loredan. He is a very good at his jobs. Much better than I can, but his ways are much unsuited to ways of noble. He swear most profoundly that he can remove the bark of the trees with sound. He and I had an understanding, I order him and he go. He is getting bored with nothing to do.” Mocenigo smiled in mystery “Don’t worry about that, I got an idea that might work. Angelo, what about you?”
Angelo shot him with annoying expression. “Well, Mocenigo, I got 10000 Infantry and 5000 Cavalry. That can be easily replace although Cavalry are bit harder. I also got 30 Cannon. It does work most of times but it is irreplaceable at the moment.” Rodolfo cut in “Our scientist are doing their best to discover the secret of building Cannons, but it would take a while.” Angelo snarled at Rodolfo “Would you let me finish this first?” Rodolfo sighed “Of course, Angelo” Angelo continued “Well, I done what I am saying but men are sitting doing nothing and getting a bit fat.”
Mocenigo frowned, as for why no one knew. He looked at Luciano
Luciano said rather loudly. “As for this day, Croatia and Hungary declared war on Venice.”High Council looked at Luciano shocked, Luciano quieted down bit “But they are so agreeable with us when I gave 100 ducats to Croatia, the leader of Alliance, so therefore we are not at war with them, well not at the moment.”
Mocenigo said “And pray, what does the world think of us?” Lucian replied “Well, they thought that we stand at the very twilight of our Republic, so they won’t think we are very bad nation if we attack Byzantium, Mantua, Ragusa, and Cyprus.” Mocenigo brightened up and looked at Rinaldo
Rinaldo took on his preaching tone and said “Oh, God had told me that we must look after other Religions so I told my priests not to scream at Orthodox and start screaming at Moslems and what a very bad people they are. It would, I hope to increase Tolerance toward the Orthodox. This does make sense since half of our provinces are Orthodox.” Mocenigo approved “Good work, Rinaldo.” Rinaldo responded “I only live but to serve the Republic.”
Mocenigo said “This is what I want you to do, Angelo and Enrico, I wanted your men ready to march and sail. Angelo, I want your men to be load onto Enrico’s fleet. Enrico, once all men is on board. I want that fleet to go to Corfu, once you got there, I declare war on Byzantium and you would land on Morea and begin siege on the city of Nafplion, once you got that city, you would go to Constantinople in Thrace and get that city. Then we get Morea and leave the Thrace alone. End of the war. I want you two to be there personally oversee the war.” Angelo and Enrico stared at Mocenigo. “MOVE!!!” yelled Mocenigo. Angelo and Enrico ran out of the room to do Mocenigo’s bidding.
The rest grinned at the reaction of Angelo and Enrico. “Luciano, when I declare war on Byzantium, I want you to go to Constantinople to tell the emperor personally.” Luciano replied “Well, I mean to lose weight anyway.”
Mocenigo looked worn out and said "This meeting is over."
The local map of venetian Republic in 1419
This is my first time writing AAR. I just hope this will work.
My first goal, are to recover all core provinces which are Mantua, Ragusa, Morea and Cyprus. Once that was done, what next? Hmm, Good Question.
Chapter 1, Part 1: And so it begins.
Recently, the decline of the Venice Republic made people so fed up with their government. So the government of Venice Republic fallen under the revolution of the people. And out of that ashes of the Government, are the group of nobles who sworn to restore their Republic to the height of her power. So that group of nobles formed High Council. It would compose of the:
Council Leader, Tommaso Mocenigo who is the chairman and made the final decisions.
Rodolfo, his job is Administration Councillor, who deals with taxes and expense.
Angelo, his job is Army Councillor who of course deal with army and responsible for maintenance of its men and equipment.
Luciano, his job is Diplomacy Councillor who deals with other nations and gauges their reactions to Venice’s triumph and mistakes.
Enrico, his job is Navy Councillor who of course deal with navy and responsible for maintenance of its men and equipment
Rinaldo, his job is Religion Councillor who deals with church and the public relation. He is Catholic, but understands the position of other religion which is rare and very good idea since, most of her island provinces are in fact Orthodox.
Each of these Councillors got depended on each other. Army and Navy depended on Administration for their wages and may God help Administration if he does not have any money at all.
On the New Year’s Day, the first meeting was took place in Macenigo’s palace. It was midday and the High Council was having a small lunch. On the old but best quality wooden table, Mocenigo sat at the head of the table, while other sat in the seats around the table. Angelo and Enrico sat opposed to each other, same thing occurred with Luciano and Rinaldo. Rodolfo sat opposed Mocenigo.
Mocenigo told the group “Welcome to the council, I hope we do much better jobs than our previous Government. We must restore Republic to her height but first let hear what you got say about your responsibility. Rodolfo, shall you start?”
Rodolfo laughed at the group and said “Well, after paying the Army and Navy, also the groups of scientists to develop the technology for the good of the Republic, we only have 500 ducats left in the treasury. It is of course, a bad new since we thought that we had more ducats left to play with. Anyway, I started a Republic-wide, promotion of Tax-collectors so we can improve our income. However these mean we only have 200 ducats left.” The cries of the councillors can be heard across the Gulf of Venice. Angelo screamed at Rodolfo “What do you mean we only had 200 ducats left, you big spender, you just used half of our treasury. Why, I declare a due….” But he was suddenly quieted down when he saw Mocenigo’s rapier across his throat. Mocenigo said “I think you better not say that, we are the High Council, we do not fight among each other as long as I said so. Understand?” Angelo paled and nodded very quickly. Mocenigo went back and sat down on his seat. Rodolfo continued, “But I hoped that the tax we would get from our people would replace the money I used for the Republic.” Mocenigo said “Hmm, let hope it did work. So what about you? Enrico.”
Enrico sighed and said “We got 5 warships, 30 Galleys and 5 Transport under the command of Admiral P. Loredan. He is a very good at his jobs. Much better than I can, but his ways are much unsuited to ways of noble. He swear most profoundly that he can remove the bark of the trees with sound. He and I had an understanding, I order him and he go. He is getting bored with nothing to do.” Mocenigo smiled in mystery “Don’t worry about that, I got an idea that might work. Angelo, what about you?”
Angelo shot him with annoying expression. “Well, Mocenigo, I got 10000 Infantry and 5000 Cavalry. That can be easily replace although Cavalry are bit harder. I also got 30 Cannon. It does work most of times but it is irreplaceable at the moment.” Rodolfo cut in “Our scientist are doing their best to discover the secret of building Cannons, but it would take a while.” Angelo snarled at Rodolfo “Would you let me finish this first?” Rodolfo sighed “Of course, Angelo” Angelo continued “Well, I done what I am saying but men are sitting doing nothing and getting a bit fat.”
Mocenigo frowned, as for why no one knew. He looked at Luciano
Luciano said rather loudly. “As for this day, Croatia and Hungary declared war on Venice.”High Council looked at Luciano shocked, Luciano quieted down bit “But they are so agreeable with us when I gave 100 ducats to Croatia, the leader of Alliance, so therefore we are not at war with them, well not at the moment.”
Mocenigo said “And pray, what does the world think of us?” Lucian replied “Well, they thought that we stand at the very twilight of our Republic, so they won’t think we are very bad nation if we attack Byzantium, Mantua, Ragusa, and Cyprus.” Mocenigo brightened up and looked at Rinaldo
Rinaldo took on his preaching tone and said “Oh, God had told me that we must look after other Religions so I told my priests not to scream at Orthodox and start screaming at Moslems and what a very bad people they are. It would, I hope to increase Tolerance toward the Orthodox. This does make sense since half of our provinces are Orthodox.” Mocenigo approved “Good work, Rinaldo.” Rinaldo responded “I only live but to serve the Republic.”
Mocenigo said “This is what I want you to do, Angelo and Enrico, I wanted your men ready to march and sail. Angelo, I want your men to be load onto Enrico’s fleet. Enrico, once all men is on board. I want that fleet to go to Corfu, once you got there, I declare war on Byzantium and you would land on Morea and begin siege on the city of Nafplion, once you got that city, you would go to Constantinople in Thrace and get that city. Then we get Morea and leave the Thrace alone. End of the war. I want you two to be there personally oversee the war.” Angelo and Enrico stared at Mocenigo. “MOVE!!!” yelled Mocenigo. Angelo and Enrico ran out of the room to do Mocenigo’s bidding.
The rest grinned at the reaction of Angelo and Enrico. “Luciano, when I declare war on Byzantium, I want you to go to Constantinople to tell the emperor personally.” Luciano replied “Well, I mean to lose weight anyway.”
Mocenigo looked worn out and said "This meeting is over."
The local map of venetian Republic in 1419
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