Recent content by Valin Arcadius

The empire didn't have much of a navy by the end, or the troops to capture the castles, so for them, it wasn't really a viable strategy. The Laskarids ITTL however, are a different story. Besides it's not like I'm advocating for it to happen immediately, for this war Alexandros II should focus...

Classic EU4 strategy, isolate their European territories with a naval blockade and then siege them down one by one.

Not enough...

Agreed, think how this looks to the average citizen of the empire, the Palaiologoi are siding with the very republic that destroyed the empire against the descendent and heir of one of the men who helped restore it, as he tries to free their fellow countryman from said republic all the while the...

WOO! Reconquring Crete, the Greek Venetian territories, and he finally has a son. Man Alexandros is on a roll. The Sicilians

If their 7th child is a boy he would be the perfect age to marry Valentina Visconti forging an alliance with the Visconti in northern Italy and if things go as IOTL giving them a claim on Milan. Can't wait for more.

Emperor of Nicaea is probably a more apt comparison.

I'm not sure why you all are so convinced that they need access to the Atlantic through Gibraltar to become a top-tear colonial power, especially when the population you all want to send out to colonize distant lands would be much better suited to colonize the old imperial lands of the near east...

Now it is time to rest and recover.

All this debate regarding the capital raises an interesting question. If the Despotate can be considered the bedrock of a third refounding of the Empire (Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance) and it finds itself in a similar if not identical position to the early gunpowder empires. What is a...

Agreed it makes more sense to break the stalemate by opening up a second front in Epirus hitting the Serbs from behind and forcing Dusan to split his army.

The Western front is stable for the moment, and Despotate forces are now making their way east, hopefully, they can finally break the stalemate.

Classic EU4 Stratigy.

You know thinking on the Visconti, if things go similar to OTL, and if Alexander II and Blanche have a grandson born around the early 1370s as the second in line to the Despotate it opens up the possibility of a marriage alliance with rather fascinating long-term implications, in the form of...

Rest well oh valiant general for you have gone above and beyond the call of duty.