Re: What to do now??
Originally posted by boehm
dear Backpack, Storet & RaulTheRunt...
what do u think I should do now that its my turn? ...I mean Im pretty sure that if I really put my mind to it I could probably hurt atleast one of you really bad....so what are your intentions? Are u planning to all jump me again?
If your intentions are purely to hurt France...well then I probably cant please u (not willingly anyway!)...but if u have other less aggressive goals then perhaps we can come to some sort of aggrement?
claus
For France:
I was going to PM ya before seeing this post...but...since I have nothing to hide...I'll air it out here. Venice should be done playing in Western Europe for a long long time. Our house is burning to the ground around us as I write this. I expect to get my butt kicked by Hungary and lose some provinces in that war. I don't think Venice can handle the additional BB points for DoW's without CB's. Our rep is very bad already and we still need to whittle Hungary, the Turks, and Austria down a little. As stated previously, I want to work in the Balkans, Black Sea, Italy/central Med, and maybe colonize. If France goes to war and takes back their provinces in France, I won't retaliate. However, peace and state gifts to Venice during their current war would even produce an ally if France looks to expand eastward in Europe.
I have seen the strength of the dark side and am powerless to resist its pull.
If Venice gets mauled or heaven forbid completely snuffed, Francisco will continue to fight even if that means he goes into exile with another nation (maybe the Pope) and dedicates himself to freeing Veneto and reestablishing Venice as a separate state.
For Spain:
Please send ducats since we gave up the opportunity to stick it to the Turk again and then stripped our country bare to rip the gorilla off your back. We could really use some extra funding now (besides you're rich).
Sidenote: I cannot believe Aragon would not grant military access when we were both at war with France, had +124 relations, I had no port in the area, and was suffering from naval attrition. Also, Spain signing a peace treaty once I was sieging two provinces and causing havoc with 15K cavalry lead by my General deep in central France was a real problem.
Suddenly I got a lot of attention as Spain, Aragon, and Navarra jumped ship and all the European minor nations stood around looking at their shoes mumbling things to each other like, "Yeah, Venice...do you know that guy?...I don't know him either...well...lets go get a beer or something before we sign that peace treaty tomorrow with France." The last 2 years of that war were painful. BTW, I found it interesting that Burgundy and England didn't capitalize on the opportunity to stick a spear in France.
For Sweden:
Hi, RtR...bet it's cold up there.
Your alliance goes to war again and again and again and...well...you get the picture.
They must be trying to conquer somewhere warm for a vacation spot.
Cyprus is still available
....probably a bad idea though since I have a CB on it. By the way, I suspect the AI does not experience the same war exhaustion as a human player since there were only 2 French revolts during my 5 years of this 15 year continuous war against France.
Th-th-that's all folks,
Backpack
