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Miller Number 2001Fpw10

Fall 1467

Deadline/Winter-Spring 1468 6/20 Tuesday

France and Naples manage to keep Venice in check, but cannot prevent him from completing his conquest of Turkey.

The Venice garrison in Lucca cannot be besieged by the French fleet because Lucca is not a port.

Venice retreats F Ancona to garrison

France spends 12 ducats to disband Venice A Cremona

Naples spends 18 ducats to buy Venice A Bologna

Venice borrows 2 ducats for 2 years (3 ducats due Fall 1469) and counterbribes A Pistoia for 3 ducats

Summer 1469: 27 ducats due from Venice (18 borrowed)

Fall 1469: 3 ducats due from Venice (2 borrowed)

FRANCE	[A Tyrolea to Milan], A Como supports A Tyrloea to Milan, A Pavia supports A Tyrolea to Milan, A Parma to Cremona, [A Swiss to Tyrolea], A Turin supports A Swiss to Tyrolea, [A Modena supports F Lucca besiege (cut)], A Fornova supports A Modena, [F Lucca besiege (not a port)], G Genoa convert to A
NAPLES	A Pisa supports A Urbino to Florence, A Urbino to Florence, [A Ancona besieges (Dislodged, retreat Urbino, Spoleto, Aquila, OTB)], [A Bologna to Pistoia], F Otranto to Ionian Sea, F Messina supports F Otranto to Ionian Sea, F Gulf of Naples holds (u)
VENICE	[A Austria to Tyrolea], A Carinthia supports A Milan, A Trent supports A Milan, A Milan supports A Austria to Tyrolea, [A Cremona supports A Milan (nsu)], [A Mantua to Modena], [A Ferrara to Bologna], [A Bologna to Florence (nsu)], [A (EM) Pistoia supports A Bologna to Florence (nsu)], A Aquila to Capua, A Croatia to Slavonia, [A Albania to Durazzo], F Lower Adriatic supports G Ancona convert to A, [F Ionian Sea to Durazzo (Dislodged, retreat Palermo, Central Mediterranean, OTB)], F Tunis holds, G Lucca holds, G Ancona converts to A

France – Naples: Dear Ally, he is proving to finish this year. I hope that you made the good moves while I proved for Cremona and Milan. Next Spring, if we are still in the game, I shall send a fleet, or all two, to the south to help you.

Naples – France: Hopefully I heard something from you this turn....

Naples – Venice: Good moves, but I'm now going to rebound, I hope...

Venice – All: I hope the game ends within 2 years either by win or draw. If not, I know I will have lost by unbalancing things.

Venice – Naples/France: I think together you can crush me. The question is, can you work together effectively in a gunboat game? I am counting on an the constraints of gunboat being enough to hobble your cooperation and not be able to adjust tactics to account for my wild moves.

Venice – Naples: To be honest, one of the major reasons I attacked you instead of France was I have lusted after the Turkish variable for years now. Always just one province away. I truly wanted to attack France more but he always had such strong defenses and wasting my money against him would have just allowed you to keep stashing the cash.

Venice has conquered the Turkish home areas. He now gains all Turkish home areas as his own as well as the Turkish variable income die roll.

Good Year – No Famine!

Provinces and cities that are underlined do no produce income while those that are in italics could change hands depending on retreats.

Provinces

France	Avignon, Swiss, Tyrolea, Marseilles, Provence, Turin, Como, Saluzzo, Savoy, Genoa, Montferrat, Pavia, Fornova, Parma, Cremona, Modena, Lucca, Corsica	18
Naples	Bologna, Urbino, Florence, Pisa, Piombino, Sienna, Arezzo, Perugia, Patrimony, Rome, Spoleto, Aquila, Naples, Salerno, Otranto, Messina, Palermo, Sardinia	18
Venice	Austria, Hungary, Slavonia, Carinthia, Trent, Milan, Bergamo, Mantua, Ferrara, Verona, Padua, Treviso, Friuli, Carniola, Istria, Croatia, Dalmatia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Ragusa, Albania, Durazzo, Pistoia, Ancona, Capua, Bari, Tunis	27

Seas

Naples	Gulf of Naples, Ionian Sea	2
Venice	Lower Adriatic, Venice	2

Cities

France	Avignon, Swiss, Tyrolea, Marseilles, Turin, Saluzzo, Savoy, Genoa (3), Montferrat, Pavia, Cremona, Modena, Corsica	15
Naples	Bologna, Florence (3), Pisa, Piombino, Sienna, Arezzo, Perugia, Rome (2), Naples (2), Messina, Palermo, Sardinia	16
Venice	Austria, Hungary, Trent, Milan (3), Mantua, Ferrara, Padua, Treviso, Carniola, Croatia, Dalmatia, Ragusa, Albania, Durazzo, Ancona, Bari, Tunis (2), Lucca, Venice (3)	24

Totals

Variable income die roll was 6.

	Variable	Provinces	Seas	Cities	Gross
France	15	18	0	15	48
Naples	14	18	2	16	50
Venice	20	27	2	24	73

	1454	1455	1456	1457	1458	1459	1460	1461	1462	1463	1464	1465	1466	1467	1468
Austria	3	2	3	4	5	4	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Florence	3	6	8	7	6	6	6	7	11	10	8	7	6	0	0
France	3	7	8	9	10	12	13	10	12	12	14	12	11	12	13
Milan	3	5	5	2	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Naples	4	4	5	6	7	7	8	9	8	7	7	10	10	12	12
Papacy	4	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Turks	3	5	5	6	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Venice	4	6	7	6	9	10	14	14	12	15	13	15	15	20	18

Naples retreats A Ancona retreats to garrison

Vencie retreats F Ionian Sea to Palermo

		Cost
France	Maintains all, builds G Cremona, F Marseilles	33
Naples	Maintains all, builds G Messina	24
Venice	Maintains all, builds A Dalmatia, A Padua, A Treviso, A Hungary, F Durazzo, F Venice, G Tunis	63

France – Naples: It seems that we have some other time to stop him. He knows that he must finish within Summer 1469, after he will be assassinated by the moneylenders. Quite surely he retreated in Palermo and so you was able to build a fleet in Naples only, but I made one in Marseille and shall be to your orders against his fleets: please give them to it, and eventually to the other one. If you can, and if he is still there, in Spring you also should support my army move from Modena to Lucca. In Summer we ought to coordinate ourselves to attack Mantua: I must see his buildings and shall make a proposal for this next time.

France – Venice: Will you able to finish within Summer 1469? We shall see how you will prove to do.

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