That, or you're all Bulgarian usurpers![]()
Could be worse, I could be a barbarous Angle!
That, or you're all Bulgarian usurpers![]()
Could be worse, I could be a barbarous Angle!![]()
Believe it or not but I was going to post this WI today! Thank God I checked first
As for the WI itself, I think Nicaea would focus more on the Asian front and without Strategopoulos' constant raids at Epirus we will see more money in Michael's treasury. Maybe Epirus could even be the one to capture Constantinople?
Excepting the potentially dangers political effects of recapturing Constantinople and putting the Latin Empire to an end, I would think just taking a small, defensible sliver of land in Europe wouldn't much overtax Nicaean resources. Perhaps the Nicaeans could hold onto an area that resembles current Turkish Europe, and then leave the rest for the future?
Such would probably keep the Nicaean state from overtaxing itself and weakening its position in its relatively prosperous Asian lands.
Excepting the potentially dangers political effects of recapturing Constantinople and putting the Latin Empire to an end, I would think just taking a small, defensible sliver of land in Europe wouldn't much overtax Nicaean resources. Perhaps the Nicaeans could hold onto an area that resembles current Turkish Europe, and then leave the rest for the future?
Such would probably keep the Nicaean state from overtaxing itself and weakening its position in its relatively prosperous Asian lands.
Its not so much that Europe is beyond their means, its the fact they have to deal with Europe and Asia (Minor) that winds up as "sufficient attention to one leaves too little for the other".
Yes. The post-1261 state, whilst probably the strongest state in the region faces reasonably powerful troubles on each and every border. I'd say the big issue is that the Greeks are not in a position of significant strength on any of their borders- Bulgarians, Turks, Serbs and Latins are all capable of individually holding their own against the Greeks, and, when two or more cause trouble at once, holding ground becomes near impossible.