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King John - seated at the table on the right - has arranged a victory feast. All of his rivals are invited. |
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CreditsCongratulations to Pasquale (king John), and thank you all ever so much for the game. Special thanks to our judge Matti.I have rated the players below, based on the number of controlled cities at the end of the last Campaign Season. The number of controlled areas is considered in case of ties. Players who got eliminated are rated on the basis of how long they stayed in the game (I think this is sheer quibble; only the victory counts). Here is a graphical representation showing how the number of controlled cities has fluctuated during the game.
The Rating of the Players
AftermathThe game as seen from Zara (the royal dalmatian capital):The general impression I got from this all-new scenario was that - with all respect - the medalists were exactly those players who were left in peace. Tenacious local battles raged all the time (France vs. Genova, Naples vs the Papacy), or at least there was no mutual trust (Austria vs. Dalmatia). This regrettable state of affairs prevented any co-ordinated attacks against those who continuously expanded their terrirories. For example, there was a certain critical moment, when France and Genoa could have done much harm to already quite strong Sicily, if only they had built fleets instead of armies and advanced southwards together. When there are this many players, the weaklings must co-operate in the beginning. Of course, if France, Savoy and Genova had built fleets in Corsica and Sardinia, and then advanced towards Sicily, the end result would probably have been totally different. The same could be said about the district of Tuscany. We saw in the first Campaign Season that if Cosimo and Pius really had bribed a ferrarian army, duke Borso would probably have went quickly out of the game, especially if the Doge would have attacked him, too. As to my own strategy, it mostly failed. I had mused upon an alliance with Austria and Venice. We could have made a hefty westward thrust, but that came into nothing; Venice had certain problems with her game, and Austria did never attack Milan, for reasons which until to this day remain incomprehensible to me ;) When looking backwards, I think I made an error when betraying the Sultan. A triple alliance of Naples, Turkey and Dalmatia would also have worked well; but Naples was unwilling to open hostilities towards Sicily. Please send your comments just about anything in our game - the happenings, how the game was organized and presented in the web, the mapboard - more port cities would certainly be a good idea - the rules (oh I know that Pasquale would like to support a supporting unit...) etc. We shall publish your comments here. Anyway, I had a great time, and I hope that so had you, regardless of your success in the game. Perhaps our game gave you an opportunity to detach your thoughts for a while from everyday business and the tragic tumults of the world. And now - best wishes and so long! Ciao! Adjö, vi ses! Heippeippeip! Risto alias Janos Hunyadi
Your Honour MIGHTY JOHN !!!!!!!Congratulations for Your Highness ,as a supporter to You, I hope that we in France have a good futurealways Yours CHARLES
From Sicily, FINAL WORDSI want to thank all warriors for the fun (and the Judge Matti principally). Also I must say that I was almost constrained to win so early (and with the regreetable taken of a friendly neapolitan city), but I begin from the start. As said, for me Naples and Turkey cannot coesist, thus at the very beginning I proved to convince Sultan Muhammad to leave me the west for concentrating him in the east by selling me Malta: in this manner we hadn't any places of contrast and could begin an eventual strong alliance; incredibly he disagreed and wanted to remain everywhere. Obviously Dalmatia and Naples had good time in east immediately, and I joined them happily. I wished a quiet south because I was very preoccupied about the North, before the start: too many ports and with too many players with France and Firenze very dangerous for me; instead buildings and first moves was a very pleasant giving: before no fleets in Sassari, Ajaccio, Bastia and Pisa and two coalition that attacked Firenze and France (after quick destruction of Savoy). I promptly joined France and stay to see middle Italy events.All went good, and my allies Naples and France grew as I wished, until the Pope became crazy: probably it was the contemporary disappearance of Firenze and Turkey and a sort of sense of surrounding. He filled my email box of messages to attack together Naples, that is very dangerous, and so on, except that he retreated everywhere and went to the Laguna of Venezia (????). Ferdinand seemed more trustable and I continued to cooperate with him, and with Charles that arrived to have all Savoy except Torino with my help, though also Banco di Genova asked to betray him; but, as anyone understood, I think, I am very reluctant to do this unless constrained from the game, as I was at the end.
About North-East events, I am very perplexed: the Doge, the Emperor and
the Hunyadi continued to tease each other for quite all game until Borso
and Sforza joined against Venice; what are they waiting while Sicily and
Ferrara growing theirselves, Firenze and Turkey disappearing and the war
continuing? Probably they took pleasure from the court life.
Yours, Primo Re d'Italia John II di Sicilia
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