It was time for the Templar Knights to make their move and unify Constantinople with the rest of the empire. A low level diplomat was send to the Byzantine Capital.
The demands were read to the Byzantine Court
They were flatly rejected. It was time for the offensive campaign to begin. All generals went to the prepared SOP. War had been declared!
The first attacks were the lightly defended island fortress.
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The Citadel of Diyarbakir was besieged. Near Caesarea the first field battle took place between the former allies.
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The enemy attacked with reinforcements coming from Caesarea. The enemy contained heavy infantry regiments that were rained upon by flaming arrows has they advanced.
Before the infantry units could engage combat the Knights ordered a cavalry charge.
The enemy units were scattering just has the reinforcements arrived.
Again the Knights cavalry came in to support the infantry and route the last enemy regiment.
Victory
The Citadel of Caesarea was besieged.
Iconium was the next city to fall before the year end.
The Venetians were reconciled and a state of war still existed between the two nations.
Other announcements de Ponte was appointed the Duke of Alexandria. There was a large force in the African frontier. Councillor Edmunds had made his way to the coast from the Red Sea to take some of these veterans with him to the Byzantine shores. The capture of Rhodes and Nicosia brought advance naval technology to the Templar Knights bigger and faster ships could be built for the navy.
The Venetian ruler had passed away and peace could be obtainable with the faction.
Another young general in the Constantinople Region ready to fight for his father
A new Lord Seneschal
The agency reports the northeast corner of the Byzantine Empire is lightly defended. The enemy’s armies must be in the field for the cities are only small garrisons.
The Citadel of Caesarea easily falls.
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The siege ends in Diyarbakir with a Templar victory.
The Byzantine capital of Niceaa is under attack.
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There was no need for a long siege there was plenty of artillery and a new weapon for the Knights “Mighty Mary”
A siege tower was placed on the far right flank as a diversion. The garrison committed itself to the front gates.
The breach in the wall was made and the knights charged forward
The young general made a charge through the gates and was heading for the town centre.
Victory was at hand the Byzantine capital had been captured.
An up and coming agent removed some orthodox priest to clear the for the catholic clergy in Iconium.
The Master Spy of the agency was in Sinop trying to locate the new capital and see what the enemy had prepared on the Black Sea coastal cities.
The Duke of Constantinople’s youngest son comes of age.
Another new member to the Order by marriage to the Grandmaster’s niece
A preliminary financial report: The sacking of the enemy’s cities had been very profitable to the war effort.
Further intelligence of the remaining Byzantines cities in the Dardanelles
The Byzantines and French sign a truce and the Templar allies the Danes have declared war on the Byzantines.
Faction announcements of 1477
The Citadel of Canakkale falls Operation Gateway is a success. Constantinople is linked by more then one region to the rest of the empire.
Yerevan had fallen into chaos and was no longer under Byzantine control. The Knights besieged the city with a small force. The Byzantines also had interest in the city and attacked the besiegers.
It was a close battle but not a victory for the Knights. The only defeat in the campaign.
The Orthodox Bishop was removed from the Constantinople Region he was trying to create unrest in the predominant catholic region.
Obits of 1479
Pope Meter
Relations are perfect and the Pope is pleased with the Order's work. Heretics are being tried and executed all over the empire.
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