Barking Up the Wrong Tree
Spring 1254
Miller Number 2007Bpw10
Advanced Rules, Natural Disasters, Special Military Units, Conquest, Gray Press, Ultimate Victory
Deadline/Summer 1254 8/18 Tuesday
Milan and Avignon continue to duke it out, while Aragon and Venice reclaim lost territory. The Pope moves south, as does Florence into the Pope's back yard.
Builds
|
Cost |
||
| Aragon | Maintains all, builds F Durazzo, F Messina | 18 |
| Avignon | Maintains F Provence, A Avignon, A Swiss, A Tyrolea | 12 |
| Florence | Maintain A Lucca, A Bologna, build A Florence, A Arezzo | 12 |
| Milan | Maintains A Savoy, A Turin, A Como, A Milan, A Modena, A Mantua, builds A Pavia, G Genoa, G Modena, G (Elite Mercenary) Savoy | 33 |
| Papacy | Maintains all, build G Ancona, A Perugia | 18 |
| Venice | Maintains all, builds F Venice, A Padua, A Treviso | 24 |
Orders
| Aragon (Scharf) | A Bari to Otranto, F Durazzo holds, F Messina holds, F Tyrrhenian Sea to Sardinia, F Western Mediterranean supports F Tyrrhenian Sea to Sardinia, F Central Mediterranean to Tyrrhenian Sea |
| Avignon (Nichols) | A Tyrolea to Como (Dislodged, retreat Carinthia, garrison, OTB), A Swiss to Turin, A Avignon supports Swiss to Turin, F Provence to Savoy |
| Florence (Whyte) | A Lucca supports A Bologna, A Bologna supports A Lucca (Dislodged, retreat Florence, Pistoia, garrison, OTB), A Florence to Urbino, A Arezzo to Perugia |
| Milan (Renken) | A Savoy to Saluzzo, A Pavia to Turin, A Turin to Swiss (Dislodged, retreat Montferrat, OTB), A Como supports A Milan to Tyrolea, A Milan to Tyrolea, A Mantua supports Venice A Ferrara to Bologna, A Modena supports Venice A Ferrara to Bologna, G Genoa convert to F, G (EM) Savoy convert to F, G Modena supports A Modena |
| Papacy (Robles) | A Rome to Capua, A Perugia to Rome, A Ancona to Aquila, A Naples supports A Aquila to Salerno, A Aquila to Salerno, G Ancona convert to F |
| Venice (Partridge) | A Ferrara to Bologna, A Verona holds, A Dalmatia to Herzegovina, A Padua to Ferrara, A Treviso to Padua, F Venice holds, F Upper Adriatic supports A Ferrara to Bologna, F Albania to Lower Adriatic |
Spring 1254 Famine Losses
Autonomous garrison Ragusa, Avignon A Carinthia (if retreated there), Florence A Pistoia (if retreated there)
Summer 1254 Plague
Bad Year – Row and Column: Bergamo, Ancona (Papal F destroyed), Parma, Mantua (Milan A destroyed), Istria, Friuli, Sienna, Albania, Modena (Milan A and G destroyed), Urbino (Florence A destroyed), Pistoia
Press
Florence: As the little Ice Age sinks across northern Europe, leaving latitudes north of Florence in the grip of a cold war, the Florentine army packs its bags and heads south, to warm its icy fingers by means of a hot war with its heretical neighbour, the false-doctrined, fatuously worldy and significantly unspiritual so-called pope. May the world-famous marshmallows of Lucca be grilled to perfection upon the pyre of papal perfidity!
Next month:
- Are Venetians blind, or is it just their world-view?
- Is a female from M’ilan a M’lady?
- Avignon or ‘Ave he not? The choice is yours in our special free pull-out supplement.
- Putting the boot into Italy: if the shoe fits…
| Barking Up the Wrong Tree, Issue 153 | ||
| Barking Up the Wrong Tree, Issue 155 |