Despite having owned EU3 since its release, I have recently figured out that I never wrote a EU3 AAR. Thus, I have limited time left before we all move to EU4! I have been mostly playing HttT and Magna Mundi, recently got DW and now I want to try a new mod, Death & Taxes (this should also represent a big disclaimer on my future game play).
I have chosen to write a sort of sequel to my Apulian trilogy (see my signature) and therefore I will play the Kingdom of Naples, but with an original (and facilitated, I admit) starting date: 1408, when King Ladislao the Magnanimous of the Anjou-Durazzo dynasty managed to conquer Rome and Central Italy during the convulsive days of the Western Schism.
In real life, Ladislao prematurely died in 1414 at the age of 37, leaving the throne to an unfortunate successor, his sister Giovanna II. Many historians think of Ladislao as an overambitious and ruthless leader, who attempted to unify the Italian peninsula with inadequate means, too much in advance of the times and against too many formidable enemies. Anywise, “Aut Caesar aut nihil” was his motto (revived one century later by Cesare Borgia)...
Will I do better than Ladislao and safeguard both kingdom and dynasty?
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Some game features:
Contents:
List of rulers:
I have chosen to write a sort of sequel to my Apulian trilogy (see my signature) and therefore I will play the Kingdom of Naples, but with an original (and facilitated, I admit) starting date: 1408, when King Ladislao the Magnanimous of the Anjou-Durazzo dynasty managed to conquer Rome and Central Italy during the convulsive days of the Western Schism.
In real life, Ladislao prematurely died in 1414 at the age of 37, leaving the throne to an unfortunate successor, his sister Giovanna II. Many historians think of Ladislao as an overambitious and ruthless leader, who attempted to unify the Italian peninsula with inadequate means, too much in advance of the times and against too many formidable enemies. Anywise, “Aut Caesar aut nihil” was his motto (revived one century later by Cesare Borgia)...
Will I do better than Ladislao and safeguard both kingdom and dynasty?
_ _ _
Some game features:
- Version: Divine Wind 5.2 plus Death & Taxes mod
- Start date : January 1408, I will go on until the history seems realistic enough (i.e. no WC)
- Settings: everything on normal, except for difficulty set to Very Hard
- Goals: survive as a dynasty, recover historical claims (Sicily, Epirus), grow in Italy, possibly create a Mediterranean power
- House rules: no cheats, reloads and similar techniques, possibly adherence to reality (i.e. no marriages with exotic princesses and similar).
Contents:
- Prelude to action
- Eat slowly, live long (1408-12)
- On the verge of the cliff (1413-16)
- Ladislao’s last years of serene reign (1416-24)
- The regency for Ferrante (1424-34)
- First Ionian War (1435-39)
- The Council of Thessaloniki (1440-44)
- Second Ionian War and the Sicilian reunification (1444-48)
- The shape of a new country (1448-55)
- The “unfair alliance” with France (1456-61)
- The Queen baby is not cute (1461-74)
- The Three Years’ War and Queen Maria’s escape to Sicily (1475-79)
- Growing prospects (1480-99)
- The dawn of a new era (1500-03)
- Maria, a devout Queen (1503-14)
- Reach the sky and see the death in the face (1515-20)
- The second Austrian Invasion (1520-26)
- You want more wars, don’t you? (1527-31)
- Maria (I) is dead, viva Maria (II)! (1532-42)
- The Italian Wars (1543-57)
- Golden years and death of Maria II (1557-72)
- A male ruler after 107 years, Ferdinando (1572-79)
- The Austrians will never prevail, the Milanese will bow (1580-88)
- See Florence and then die (1588-98)
- A new ruler for a new century (1599-1610)
- A nation under construction (1611-22)
- Hardline approaches (1623-39)
- The birth of Italy (1640-46)
- Martino, a young flower of war (1647-56)
- Epilogue, with Francesco III’s definitive triumph (1657-70)
List of rulers:
- Ladislao Durazzo, King of Naples (1386-87 under regency; exiled/titular 1387-99; reinstated 1399-1424)
- Ferrante Durazzo, King of Naples (1424-48, of which under regency: 1424-35); King of Sicily (1448-65)
- Maria I Durazzo, Queen of Sicily (1465-1536, of which under regency: 1465-75)
- Maria II Durazzo, Queen of Sicily (1536-72, of which under regency: 1536-43)
- Ferdinando Durazzo, King of Sicily (1572-99)
- Francesco I Durazzo, King of Sicily (1599-1644)
- Francesco II Durazzo, King of Sicily (1644-46)
- Martino Durazzo, King of Italy (1646-55, of which under regency: 1646-53)
- Francesco III Durazzo, King of Italy (1655-onwards, of which under regency: 1655-58)
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