Trebizond finally broke free from the claws of the Timurids, but that does not change the fact that they were compromised, they are a disgrace to Orthodox nations everywhere. With the might given to me as Emperor, I hereby dismiss the Kingdom of Trebizond!
Oh well... they saw it comeing, let's get to the instresting things:
Part 3: ...The Punishment Due!
We sadly start with tragic news, our old monarch, has passed away!
But thankfully, the regency was only a temporary state, the new king was ready within months. And realized the mistakes of the old king. We have let the Ottoman Empire too much space, they found a way to deal with the hordes and they can now grow in might. Still, we can only hope for the best, a war with the ottomans now would be suicide.
But since we've crippled Venice, they seem to have lost a lot of diplomatic influence, their strongest ally is Switzerland, a country with no way to reach me so go figure. I think it is time to end their reign on greek lands, once and for all!
As predicted, the war starts off with a critical blow for the heretics...
But as the war wages on and on... Switzerland has got me into huge trouble with begging the Holy Roman Emperor for help!
To say the least, Bohemia was not much trouble, Bavaria wasn't really acitve either, my primary concern was Milan and some rebellions that were sparkling later. Then we decided to call Naples to join the war, after that we could face the powerfull Venetian Navy, that would soon feel our wrath!
At the time the Orthodox Rebels that were sick and tired of their new masters sucseeded in takeing naxos (with some of our help of course).
After cleaning some of our home terretories a bit, we decided to do what we should have done back in the days when Byzantium was still together!
Looks like our old enemies aren't sleeping either...
Aww... look! How cute is this? I already though that I had to fight Castille for Rhodes. It's my lucky day, isn't it?
Well, every war has it's price, and getting rid of Milan is worth it, they will pay this sum back in the future anyways!
In the meantime, the Knights decided to get a bit active, pesky little bastards, pretty annoying for an OPM!
This was their greatest victory... not very impressive. And don't misunderstand me, I'm not talking about the Knights alone, this was the greatest victory for their entire alliance in this war!
And some days later, we got exciteing reports from the battlefield!
Ahh yes, the irony!
And here began our winning streak, nothing could stop our armies!
And we they finally accepted our demandings!
Soon, the the Knights followed. And, because Bohemia put already too much effort into the war and couldn't go on...
I personally think this was a sucsessfull war! For us! I don't really think Venice will have a big mouth after this one, they will be happy if I don't annex them til' the 16th century, or Austria... hopefully not, I have my own plans with them.
That's it folks
Gonna post the next part as soon as I can.
