Otto shakes his head, and rises to speak.

I must respectfully disagree with mein Steward. He says that the Milanese will be nearly finished after we crush their mainland army. Well, if they're nearly finished, then why not finish them completely? We already have the ships, and I'm sure a small to mid-sized army will serve to seize both Corsica and Sardinia. We can convert these castles to towns and due to their position in the Mediterranean, they will pay for themselves in a few years.

I doubt the Milanese will accept an offer of peace on terms favorable to us, and I would not face a revived threat from them a decade from now. We must finish the job!