The updated Power Ratings and last week's ranking (though I apparently overlooked a Moroccan force in Grenada and they should have been somewhere in the mid-teens):
1. Venice 1
2. Saxony 3
3. Byzantines 2
4. Poland 7
5. Lithuania 4
6. Golden Horde 9
7. Hungary 11
8. Aragon 12
9. Sicily 17
10. Baveria 5
11. Hafsids 10
12. Morocco 21
13. Roum 8
14. England 15
15. Acquitaine 14
16. France 6
17. Mamulukes 20
18. Norway 16
19. Denmark 18
20. Novgorod 23
21. Teutons 19
22. Castile 13
23. Arles 22
Originally posted by catfoodtimYou broke agreements both times; first agreeing to remove your troops from Lombardy, but deceitfully leaving them there. If you had kept your word, there would have been no fighting.
The Prophecy of Shav is now apparent to me.
It was a warning not to trust the Venetians.
Twice he has agreed alliances and peace deals.
Twice now he has invaded my lands.
Twice now he has blamed the Mad King of Arles.
Mad?
I'm sodding Angry!
😉
Then just last season, you agreed in advance to peace and forfeited all designs on Lombardy, only to at the last moment send threatening notes to the Republic demanding that Lombardy be ceded to you! No doubt you were goaded into such a foolish action by the forces of German militarism, but the free Republic of Venice does not sit idly by in the face of lies and aggression.
No more deals will be cut with someone who's word is of no value; if you want the Republic's lands you will have to defeat us in battle. Come and get it; stop hiding in your castle in Savoy. Army Group West awaits you on the plains of Saluzzo. There it will be finished if you have the courage.
