General Insidious Drew, renowned Defender of the Venetian Crown and Nobility displaced in a far away land, Georgia.
Leading up to these events:
The Italian Accords of 1419 divided Half of Italy at the Papalcy between Venice and Sicily, however the Venetians would discover that the Sicilians would not ever keep this end of the bargain, that they would re-write the Accords to only include Lands North of Po River excluding the prior Agreement infuriating Doge Nicolo, Carlo the 2nd who happened to be the son of a Leonese Nobleman...Venice sought to regain her Glory and break the ill treaty as Sicily expanded into Moroccan Territories, Venice was approached with a plan. One to take down Sicily. We proceeded and the Doge got cold feet peacing the Island to the South after Smashing Victories nearly taking the whole of Italy. North Africa was however taken by the Moroccans. You see the Presence of Large Amount of Dutch Troops on Northern Borders that and a personal letter from them claiming any further actions would be met with the Sword. Sadly Brittany had been convinced by Leon and Morocco to join the Frey and this Was precisely what Flanders wanted. Going on a Killing Spree, Venice would break her truce and Invade the Southern Portion of Holland. With a Willing Mecklemburg/Hungarian Alliance in the East we felt it possible to hold the Mighty Dogs of War at bey. No such luck, we would be left to fight alone most for the better part of a decade...
The Wars that proceeded left Venice in Utter Hell. Raging Storms, Torrential Downpours of Blood, Bitter Firey Hatred in the Eyes of the Venetian and Sicilian Armies. War was nonstop, in the Alps/Italian Pennisula/and in the Capitol, Thousands of Dutch, Sicilian and Venetians lost their lives. The Moroccan Foreign Expeditionary Legions came to the Aide of Venice but too little too late. The Missing presence of Advisor Temujin of Hungary would be an extra nail in the coffin of Venice. There was a lack of desire for any more war in the hearts of the Rest of the Monarchs of Europe. As far as Hungary The tattered ruins of his nations finances, no war and no expense could be spared to favour Venice. Nor could a clear picture of the Fog of war be ascertained having arrived nearly at the end of the rope. Venice would be left with a Huge War Debt, the loss of Much Land..
After the Dutch Wars, succession of Frankish Lands, most of Germany and the Heart of Italy would remain Loyal to the King Lodewijk. The poor General Drew would have in the absence of the Dutch attempt the Unification and Empowering act of Conquoring the Whole of Italia, and utter failure now moving to Georgia the Orthodox Minor in the East. A defeated Man, and leave Venice to Sicily and Flanders to divide the Spoils...
There he would set his heart on Expansion, slow and steady...1459
Arriving in a Far away Land Sir Drew would assume Control of the Georgian Capitol, with no real Goverment as Bagrat the IVth could do little more than arrange his own funeral which would take eons, luckily for us it would allow for much freedom to do what we wish in the Country. I took to building an Army, for one Sole purpose, conquor everything in sight. The biggest Goal was the Turkish Campaign. After Peacing and appeasing the Hungarian Giant to the North, I set my armies in Motion the Northern Branch vs the Crimeans and the Southern Branch vs the Ottomans, no Leaders, not a 1 amongst the hopeless Rabble.
We failed Hoplessly in the South, though held the Line from breaking, Our Brave Georgians fought for years and years. However in the North breakthoughs were made due to tactical errors on the side of the Crimeans, the Nation would be subjugated in two Wars.
The Turks however fought much more Bravely and with their General Aswar they were almost unstoppable for the better part of 20 years. No matter what we attempted they would have a counter, we would move into Ak Konyunlu and they would move in behind us to prevent our plan to encircle them. It seemed a demon possessed the Sunni Nation. Finally a breakthrough came, freeing the men of the Northern Armies, we could mass troops in all Turkish Provinces, throughout the Coastline use our Navy to ship in supplies from Allepo and overwhelm the Turks with Shear numbers. We didn't really want their lands and the Penatlies that went with them, but the war carried on so long that we needed gains of some form we captured Ankara and forced the Turks to give all their Lands to Georgia, later we shall annex them entirely to teach the World what Defiance means... Leaving them no as Vassals but soon to be Children of a Greater Cause.
In the North, Russia had conquored Kazan and other of our Interests with not so much as a hint of Offerings... Right near our Capitol nonetheless we shall prevail! We have fought hard to carve our small Empire and to the South Iraq rises Under a New Banner we hear the Ancient Flag of Mesopotamia will Rise once again there. We feel a part of a brotherhood. Marrying into the Reigns of Europe, plotting, waiting, researching many facets of Warfare. Throwing away the Exploration Star Charts and the Different ways tax a foreign merchant out of your Trade Centers. Picking of the Sword and waiting for the Day that Once Again the Sun Shines in the East and this I promise my friends it may not be tomorrow or a century from now, the East Shall Rise!
CD