This is going to be my first AAR. Don't expect too much. It will be mostly gameplay, don't expect anything special. English is not my native language, so if a make a few mistakes, be nice.
I do not have a fancy name for my AAR, but i am definitely not going to call it something like "GenoAAR" or stuff like that.
I decided for Genoa, this is not going to be to easy, but i am pretty sure i can make it, so far i never had any problems. I play on very hard. I use the Mod Death&Taxes. It's awesome, i can only recommend it to everyone.
My first goals:
- Become the dominant naval Power in the Mediterranean
- expand my black sea holdings
- make my trade center the wealthiest in the world (except maybe for ridicolous ones with 2500 wealth or so like nanjing)
-conquer or vassalize venice
So lets begin:
I could hire some good guys in the beginning:
My mission was to the End the Sound Toll:
My allies, the papal states dragged me into a war with naples. Then i got the event death of a merchant, which gave me a nice sum of gold.
Because i could make no gains in that war, i declared war on byzantium with the alliance casus belli (the papal states were also allied with venice, and they DOWed byzantium)
The first battle in the war was lost, i managed to slip my small fleet into the black sea, but lost to the byzantine fleet
I white peaced naples. I decided to expand the bureaucracy (as always), and landed my troops in trebizondian territory. the byzantine fleet was destroyed by the venetians, while the trebizondian troops were defeated by the ziyyanids.
I annexed trebizond some month later, switched to men-at-arms and payed byzantium a symbolical tribute of 25 gold for peace. Now i was finally able to move a slider. I chose quality, because i didn't want any large scale revolts in any of my colonies.
Next year saw a new Doge. (actually a pretty nice one). I realized i needed a bigger fleet, so i began building some carracks, cogs and galleys.
I canceled my mission, because i saw no realistic chance to finish it in the next 10 years or so. The next one was to secure trade rights. This was finished in 2 days. Now i was asked to build a proper fleet.
My allies called me into a war again.
I became alliance leader. While Milan was sieging my capital with 14k soldiers, i sieged all of their provinces at once with only 1k soldiers, but for some reason, my sieges were finished a lot faster then theirs, so they accepted my peace offer. I didn't want to take any of their provinces because they were in the HRE, except for sardinia, but i wasn't able to conquer it in time. During the war i commissoned a tapestry and began supporting the florentine school for some infamy burn. My infamy wasn't really high, but 0 Infamy is always better, especially as such a small country.
Last thing i did for this session was to hire a trade advisor, so i could pass the liqour act. My new mission is to convert azov, i think i gonna pass on that for now.
I leave you with a picture of my trade league. With some gifts i was able to convince a lot of states to join my trade league or at least give me some trade rights(croatia, castille). This makes Liguria the wealthiest trade center in europe.
I do not have a fancy name for my AAR, but i am definitely not going to call it something like "GenoAAR" or stuff like that.
I decided for Genoa, this is not going to be to easy, but i am pretty sure i can make it, so far i never had any problems. I play on very hard. I use the Mod Death&Taxes. It's awesome, i can only recommend it to everyone.
My first goals:
- Become the dominant naval Power in the Mediterranean
- expand my black sea holdings
- make my trade center the wealthiest in the world (except maybe for ridicolous ones with 2500 wealth or so like nanjing)
-conquer or vassalize venice
So lets begin:
I could hire some good guys in the beginning:
My mission was to the End the Sound Toll:
My allies, the papal states dragged me into a war with naples. Then i got the event death of a merchant, which gave me a nice sum of gold.
Because i could make no gains in that war, i declared war on byzantium with the alliance casus belli (the papal states were also allied with venice, and they DOWed byzantium)
The first battle in the war was lost, i managed to slip my small fleet into the black sea, but lost to the byzantine fleet
I white peaced naples. I decided to expand the bureaucracy (as always), and landed my troops in trebizondian territory. the byzantine fleet was destroyed by the venetians, while the trebizondian troops were defeated by the ziyyanids.
I annexed trebizond some month later, switched to men-at-arms and payed byzantium a symbolical tribute of 25 gold for peace. Now i was finally able to move a slider. I chose quality, because i didn't want any large scale revolts in any of my colonies.
Next year saw a new Doge. (actually a pretty nice one). I realized i needed a bigger fleet, so i began building some carracks, cogs and galleys.
I canceled my mission, because i saw no realistic chance to finish it in the next 10 years or so. The next one was to secure trade rights. This was finished in 2 days. Now i was asked to build a proper fleet.
My allies called me into a war again.
I became alliance leader. While Milan was sieging my capital with 14k soldiers, i sieged all of their provinces at once with only 1k soldiers, but for some reason, my sieges were finished a lot faster then theirs, so they accepted my peace offer. I didn't want to take any of their provinces because they were in the HRE, except for sardinia, but i wasn't able to conquer it in time. During the war i commissoned a tapestry and began supporting the florentine school for some infamy burn. My infamy wasn't really high, but 0 Infamy is always better, especially as such a small country.
Last thing i did for this session was to hire a trade advisor, so i could pass the liqour act. My new mission is to convert azov, i think i gonna pass on that for now.
I leave you with a picture of my trade league. With some gifts i was able to convince a lot of states to join my trade league or at least give me some trade rights(croatia, castille). This makes Liguria the wealthiest trade center in europe.