Chapter 6: English-French Punitive War.
After their defeat in the Battle Of Normandy, the English and their allies flee in all directions. I follow the meanest of the bunch, Burgundy, to wherever they are running to.
Somehow, I manage to win 2 seperate battles on the same day. That’s a first for me.
Aragon will take care of Savoy for me, along with their partner in crime, Napels, giving me free reign to run around, killing Burgundians left, right and center.
By November, the enemy’s forces have dwindled enough that it’s finally time to take a more offensive approach. (Hence the diplo mapmode in this and following couple of pictures; I wanted to make sure I didn’t miss a spot.)
Scratch 1 Breton army. Drop off 3 siege stacks and move the rest of the guys in the general direction of northern Burgundy.
Sneaky little buggers, did you really think I would ever allow you to lay siege to Paris?
The Savoyards manage to elude the Napolitan army long enough to jump Armagnac. Unfortunately for them, I am closer than they think. Scratch another army. Who’s next?
Fine. Provence it is, then.
And Burgundy.
There goes the last you’ll see of Burgundian soldiers for a while. I open the ledger and take a look at my individual enemies.
Brittany: no troops, 14870 MP. They are being sieged, so good luck getting anything going there.
Burgundy: 0 troops, 1725 MP, treasury: 22.18 ducats. No soldiers, no MP, no money for mercs. Nice!
England: 34K troops, 21176 MP. Where the heck are they? They are in no other war than this one, so why are they not coming over to party? I would love to have them now.
Genoa: 8K, 1432 MP. Hiding out in Ferrarra (I think it was).
Provence: no troops, 14775 MP, but there’s an 11,000 man strong Napoli army sieging Cuneo. Have been there for over a year now. So nice to help with the fighting. Thank you very much.
Savoy: 2,000 men, 15164 MP. Not really an issue.
I carpet siege Burgundy with the help of my vassals. The fighting should be largely over by now. My only regret is that I can’t get to Portugal (Castile won’t give me access) or England (the RN is still very much intact).
July 1472. Milan, Ferrarra and Urbino see an opportunity for some landgrabbing of their own, but strangely enough never show up for the party.
August 1472. Military Tech level 6. The best army in the world just got better.
I forgot to siege Zeeland, and the Burgundians try to make a comeback. While my attention is up North, Portugal lands 11,000 men in Nice and relieve the siege. These men will later die in Languedoc.
After that I only have some minor skirmishes in Aragon. I wonder what happened in the Austrian Succession War?
Without me, Hungary lost, of course. And look, there are the perfidious English. Landing where I can’t possibly get to them. Hungary is still in disarray after their defeat and can’t do anything to stop such a large army.
And there is the other one.
Now what? I have everything sieged that I can reach. Aragon’s army took a left instead of a right and got smacked around by the Portugese before I could get to them and can’t help their underling either.
So frustrating. I am looking at 87% warscore and it feel like it can only go down from here. My MP is in the gutter, and my war exhaustion is on the moon. I had so wanted to make it to 100%.
***sigh***
So here is the peace treaty. It is only small, but in the end, I did get what I wanted. Ghent and Vlaanderen will allow me to release Vlaanderen as a vassal. I could have taken Antwerpen as well, but that would have meant over 70% Overextension and a base 67.5 AE.
I can’t help but feel like I could have done more. But things are they way they are. No use looking over your shoulder at stuff you can’t change. I would like to know what you guys think.
See you next time.