[M2TW Vanilla AAR] The Green and White

[Diamond]

This will be a single-chapter AAR about Milan.
It should be a quick, fun read.

To start, the Council of Nobles - they're very brave people, I don't know anyone who would want to be a noble in Milan calling the shots - tell me to take Ajaccio. I comply with their wishes.

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Also, I order every city under Milanese thumb - a whole two cities - to be a military based center.

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To be successful, the Italians must band together. It's an Italian brotherhood kind of thing.

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We also decide the Vatican dwellers must be allies as well.

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And the Sicilians - they're Italians.

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We also allied with the Germans... we just forgot to make the scribe report it. Also, Ajaccio falls to us.

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We ship our Ajaccio army back to the mainland to do what we Milanese do best.

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Yes, we waited until they sent their armies away.

Venice falls to the Milanese too - which brings us to our first achievement in history.

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We intercept Venetian troops, no doubt they were marching on our new toy - Venice. After the battle, we do what Milanese people do second best.

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Then we pull our first best out of the hat again.

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The Pope is a funny man - after all this intercepting, we're told he won't excommunicate us for taking Bologna. So, we do it.

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Pope Gregory's orders to stop fighting annoy me, so I pull out #1 again. On the Pope. Yes.

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We use a small army, I don't know what I was thinking, it gets trashed.

WHAT THE HELL? Why are we viewed as despicable to the rest of the world?

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Remember what I said about Italian brotherhood?

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They try to help the Venetians and the Papal States, with a boat.

So, we decide it would be better if we took the Papal States seriously and took Rome.

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I'm satisfied by the growth of the empire so far.

We sack Rome, because we're Milanese. It's our third strength.

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We Milanese do what we want.

Another feeble attempt...

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We use our second best strength again.

We landed a boat in Sicily and placed the Sicilians in a bad position - defend Naples from one army or defend your capital?

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They choose the latter - which is a grave error. They won't make it in time, and our catapults can assault Naples right away.

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Yeah.

In order to complete the Italian conquest -

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-we siege a rebel settlement.

Rebels don't deserve to be in this world, so we use our fourth strength.

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Extermination. HAHAHAHAHAHA-

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An invasion force takes Cagliari, and the Italian conquest is complete.

The map:

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This is the end of my story.

Thanks for reading everyone, I know it's everything you expect from a Milanese AAR.

[Sweger]

Hehe, effective, ruthless and backstabbing, that's Milan alright!

Nice chapter - could also be regarded as a guide for Milan.

[Diamond]

Oh, Sweger, I read your AAR on the Spanish crusade... very nice. Descriptive.

[FootSoldier]

Haha - very enjoyable. (Why did it sound so familiar, tho'?????)

[Diamond]

Haha - very enjoyable. (Why did it sound so familiar, tho'?????)

Probably because all of us have gone through it numerous times

[the new username]

hahahaha love it

[Latin Knight]

Nice start, friend. I myself always hated playing as Milan, not sure why, as i loved the other Italian factions

I didn't understand why you made all these alliances with your neighbors. If there is one thing i learned from TW is that those alliances never last, the only TW game i saw the diplomacy reasonable was Shogun 2. Specially an alliance with the HRE, they will inevitably betray you. The most safe diplomacy is always with the Pope, of course.

Anyways, nice start, and get already spamming those crossbowmen to crush your enemies!

[Diamond]

Nice start, friend. I myself always hated playing as Milan, not sure why, as i loved the other Italian factions

I didn't understand why you made all these alliances with your neighbors. If there is one thing i learned from TW is that those alliances never last, the only TW game i saw the diplomacy reasonable was Shogun 2. Specially an alliance with the HRE, they will inevitably betray you. The most safe diplomacy is always with the Pope, of course.

Anyways, nice start, and get already spamming those crossbowmen to crush your enemies!

Hmm... Did you not read the entire thing? That's it - that's the entire story.
It's supposed to be a comical story about typical Milan, thus why I allied myself with all of my surrounding nations. The sole point was to betray them.

[Latin Knight]

Hmm... Did you not read the entire thing? That's it - that's the entire story.
It's supposed to be a comical story about typical Milan, thus why I allied myself with all of my surrounding nations. The sole point was to betray them.

Damn, i surely didn't read all of it (only the beginning) , i pressupposed it would be some effort of Milanese world domination... My bad. But, indeed, that was everything i expected from the Milanese

[Jasper Yeonge]

How typically Machiavellian of you, Milan! Great AAR for sheer laughs. I'm sure Milan wished they could do that in my games where they get excommunicated by turn 5.

[Diamond]

xD it's without fail, is it not? They always manage to turn the world against them and their Crossbows of Hell...

[Alexanderos]

And indeed ! What a great AAR ! So well written ! So much passion ! Betrayal ! Execution ! Extermination! Milann !

[Diamond]

And indeed ! What a great AAR ! So well written ! So much passion ! Betrayal ! Execution ! Extermination! Milann !

Why, thank youuuu...

[419]

This AAR pretty much covers all facets of the Milanese lifestyle.

My only regret is that there were not enough stacks consisting entirely of Genoese crossbowmen.