7000 killed is an insanely high number, what's the total casualty? Could be easily half the Army of Syria out of commission for the time being.
Really does sound like even if Team Sophia comes out on top, they won't be able to get back to Syria to prevent the Egyptians from rolling over the...
How about a novel solution - the Emperor finally realised what’s up and sees the writing on the wall? The Tourmarches power derives from him so if he takes it away they’re done.
Control of most of the natural gas/oil in the Persian gulf alone should be enough to secure Ottoman status in the great power club, especially if their institutions keep up with the West.
The outcome of this final Roman Persia war should have long reaching consequences….will Constantinople be...
The thought of an Eastern (Eastern) Roman Empire in South East Asia is incredibly interesting.
You’d have to combine almost all of OTL ASEAN to reach Tier 2 so imagine a TTL Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesian Empire ruled from Singapore. With control of the most critical shopping lanes in the...
Going to assume that if the war is to be resolved - it’ll be a short limited engagement to try and maintain the status quo now that Baghdad was a disaster?
Otherwise the Tourmarches will be too entrenched if it drags out.
Is the Andronikos in Alexandria the OTL Emperoro?
Looks like the current situation has Egypt, split between the Romans and Crusaders probably favouring the latter.
So whatever he does will lose Egypt for the Romans?
A possible side effect of this war is that it could strengthen Mesopotamian statehood - especially if Iskander takes his oath to Odysseus very seriously.
A strong neutral state between Persia and Rome could be the path to peace…or it could be another Armenia.
Why didn’t the Tourmaches target North Africa to expand the territories around Carthage? It’ll avenge a past loss and the Marinids could booted out of Iberia by Spain - would imagine they’re quite a bit weaker vs before.
How badly could the Lothargarian fleet was damaged in the Triune war if they could bounce back so quickly?
Could it be incentive for the Romans to eventually build a presence near the Cape of Good Hope to counter western traffic?
What a bloodbath, Germany is going to be demographically screwed until the 1700s
Isn’t it up to Calvary to follow up and pursue once the enemy line is broken? Recall that Leopold had a reasonable number of mounted troops (vs the Ravens).
What’s the line of succession like for the triple monarchy? We know of Louis, but no siblings as far as I recall? Assume there’s plenty of cousins waiting in line.
What would be the key factors preventing Henri from simply cutting this loses and leaving Philip on his own?
He’ll lose the buffer states that he wants but will still retain all the conquests.
Ouch - Stephens life really is one step forward one step back. His realm looks quite powerful on paper, but still clearly so fragile.
Would he have been able to muster a relief army in his own if he was able to get his realm to cooperate?