Recaps

Vitus prepared the empire for war, conquered the Armenian highlands, and then led the campaign to reclaim Jerusalem. The arc ended with his army defeating the Mamluks near the Sea of Galilee and capturing Guwaz.

• Vitus reorganized the fleet, expanded glassmaking, and prepared cavalry units and supplies for a campaign against the White Sheep Dynasty.
• Vitus led the eastern campaign through Erzincan, Erzurum, Kars, and Van, defeating Uzun Hasan’s army and securing Tabriz as a frontier headquarters.
• Vitus divided the Armenian highlands into provinces and borderland regions, while George Kamsarakan received a hereditary domain and began organizing its defenses.
• Vitus and Romanus prepared the Jerusalem campaign as Western knights and the Knights Hospitaller joined the imperial forces, and Felix’s fleet damaged more than half the ships in Alexandria’s harbor.
• Vitus landed at Acre, captured the city, and marched inland to take Tiberias while avoiding a suspected Mamluk ambush.
• Vitus rejected Guwaz’s proposed battle date and waited for reinforcements before deploying against the Mamluks near Taysile.
• Vitus’s legions routed the Mamluk infantry as the Dragoons and Knights Hospitaller engaged their heavy cavalry, and the imperial army captured Guwaz and twelve thousand Mamluks.

Vitus conquered Egypt and expanded Roman influence across the Red Sea while reorganizing the empire and managing its growing trade and military demands. The arc ended with Leo governing newly captured Tripoli and confronting the region’s uncertain prospects.

• Vitus entered Jerusalem, negotiated Rhodes for the Hospitallers, then launched a campaign that captured Damietta and Cairo and brought Egypt under Roman rule.
• Vitus reorganized the conquered territories, appointed officials and garrisons, and returned to Constantinople to address military rewards, administration, and the empire’s growing population needs.
• Andronikos traveled to Abyssinia to secure trade and weapons agreements, while Samuel’s fleet seized Socotra and Demetrius and Michael worked to establish a settlement there.
• Vitus ordered the Red Sea Fleet to take Socotra and later saw Samuel’s ships strike the White Sheep fleet in the Persian Gulf.
• Vitus faced competition from Indian cotton, imposed export restrictions, and declined to protect Florence’s textile trade, while Leo married Eudokia and was appointed governor of Tripoli.
• Edric negotiated taxation with the Knights Hospitaller and began assessing Cyrenaica, where he found sparse information, scarce water, seasonal farming, and Berber resistance.
• Michael recruited islanders, organized a militia, developed whaling, and married Lokan’s sister to secure labor for Suq Fort’s outer wall.
• Leo joined Thomas in Hesperides, then led the capture of Tripoli and found a small, dry region whose arms trade brought profit but carried strategic risks.

Vitus prepared the empire for war while France’s advance drove Pauli from Florence and brought his family to Constantinople. The Roman army invaded Serbia, captured Priština and Lapovo, and forced Hunyadi’s battered forces back toward Smederevo and Belgrade.

• Vitus responded to falling grain harvests by ordering stockpiles and appointing Tucha Agricultural Minister, while approving naval measures for Socotra.
• Phil investigated the attack on Pauli and sought support for the Pact of Padua, but French forces advanced into Italy and Pauli eventually fled Florence with his family.
• Jeanne d'Arc helped the French capture London, then resigned her command, while Charles VII held Henry VI and Margaret near Paris.
• Kazhuo led a Cossack expedition into Nogai territory, and Vitus appointed Michael governor of Socotra for life while refusing to legitimize him as a Palaiologos.
• After Uroš died amid a Serbian noble revolt, Vitus ordered war against the Jagiellon Dynasty and planned an advance through Serbia into Hungary.
• Vitus led the Varangian Legion into Serbia, while Roman forces captured Paraćin, surrounded Niš and Priština, and took Grgur prisoner after storming Priština.
• French forces seized Florence, forcing Pauli to Constantinople, where he concluded the city would struggle to regain its prosperity.
• Boranov’s forces captured Lapovo and helped rout the Black Army from a forest, then Roman troops crossed a stream under artillery cover and disrupted the enemy retreat with rockets.
• Hunyadi withdrew toward Smederevo and planned to move his main force to Belgrade, while Irene Kantakouzenos rejected his advice to retreat across the Danube.

Vitus’s forces captured Malta, expanded their campaign across Sicily, and seized Corsica as Roman naval attacks threatened French and allied positions. The arc ended with Boranov uncovering signs that Ratmir had been murdered in Constantinople.

• Vitus directed the campaign in Serbia, forced Hunyadi and Władysław to negotiate, and secured a ceasefire before reorganizing the conquered lands.
• Vitus prepared for the Italian Wars as Cohen’s fleet captured Malta and Pantelleria, while Felix patrolled the waters around Sicily.
• Xerxes landed near Sciacca, Orlando captured Mount San Calogero, and Perollo surrendered the city to the Roman army.
• Orlando and Xerxes defeated French reinforcements near the Three-Way Junction, while Caboto’s fleet raided Palermo and later captured a French cruiser.
• Michael defended Suq Fort against Tristão’s Portuguese expedition until rain halted the siege and the Portuguese withdrew.
• Romanus accompanied the campaign to Corsica, where the Roman army captured coastal batteries and Caboto later landed troops in southern France.
• Vitus assigned lands in Sicily and Corsica, while Romanus returned to Constantinople and Leo visited the city’s theaters.
• Boranov learned that Ratmir had drowned and found his valuables missing, then attacked a dagger-wielding man as the detective pursued him.