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Tinto Flavour #21 - 26th of May 2025

Hello, and welcome one more week to Tinto Flavour, the happy Mondays (some), Tuesdays & Fridays in which we take a look at the flavour content of Europa Universalis V!

Today, we will take a look at the two most powerful Merchant Republics of Europe, Venice and Genoa!


Let’s start taking a look at Venice:

The Most Serene Republic of Venice is the most important and powerful of the merchant republics in the Mediterranean Sea. It controls important trade ports and islands in the Eastern Mediterranean, which form the Stado do Mar, and many inland territories in the North of Italy, which form the Domini di Terraferma.

Nonetheless, the lagoon city cannot lower its guard, as new threats arise around it. In the East, the once great Byzantine Empire will not easily forget the Fourth Crusade and the Venetian involvement in it. In the West, the Superb Republic of Genoa and the Crown of Aragon are continuing to expand their influence, conquering more territory and dominating trade routes. And at last, the Signoria of Verona have grown to be a noticeable threat to the Domini di Terraferma.

What will the future hold for the Most Serene Republic? Will it fall under the pressure of its enemies, or will it rise to the top and become the indisputable ruler of the Mare Nostrum?
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The 3 subjects of Venice are Candia, Ragusa, and Trieste. As usual, take any UI, 2D and 3D art as WIP.

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As you may have seen in one of my forum posts or Reddit, Venice is now an island! Here you also have the full extension of its Stado de Mar, with all its subjects (which, at the highest zoom levels, have their name replaced by that of the overlord, as it happens here with Candia).​

Venice is a very unique Republic, which starts with some unique reforms and privileges at the start of the game:
Venice Reform Concil of Forty.png

Venice Reform Council of Ten.png


Venice Privilege Zonta.png

Venice Privilege Avogadoria do Comun.png

Venice Privilege Libro dOro.png

Venice Privilege Libro d'Argento.png

It also hosts some works of art, some of them sacked from Constantinople in the Fourth Crusade:
Venice Works of Art.png

Here is a selection of the advances available for Venice:
Venice Advance Arsenal.png

Venice Building Arsenal.png

Venice Advance Thalassocracy.png

Venice Advance Stato do Mar.png

Venice Advance Venetian Palaces.png

Venice Building Venetian Palaces.png

Venice Advance Magistrato alla Sanita.png

Venice Advance Heavy Naval Tactics.png

And a few of its flavour events:
Venice Event Piazza San Marco.png

Venice Building Piazza San Marco.png


Event Promissione Ducale.png

Venice Reform Promissione Ducale.png


Venice Event Tizziano.png


Let’s now take a look at Genoa:

The city of Genoa stands out as the most important commercial port in the Western Mediterranean, its Republic having expanded its influence overseas through trade and war.

After defeating the Republic of Pisa, it gained the island of Corsica and established a foothold in Sardinia. However, this might have been a poisonous gift, as it may now face not only the opposition of its inhabitants, but also that of King Pere IV the Ceremonious de Barcelona, self-proclaimed sovereign of both islands.

Another challenge may arise from the east, as a network of possessions has created the conditions for a commercial dominance over the Black Sea, centered around the port of Kaffa; although dangerous neighbors such as Venice, Byzantium, or the Golden Horde might be a threat.

Relying on our numerous Fondaco and wealthy bankers, will Genoa overcome these challenges?
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The Genoese ‘mainlad’, plus its Mediterranean possessions.​

Genoa also starts with a couple of unique reforms:
Genoa Refomr Diarchy Republic.png

Genoa Reform compagna Comunis.png

Since we’re not able to have two or more rulers for a country in the game, we’re portraying the Genoese Diarchy by having Galeotto Spinola and Raffaello Doria present as characters at start, and the bonuses you see in the reform.​

Genoa also starts with some Works of Art:
Genoa Works of Art.png

It also has a quite important unique building:
Genoa Building Fondaco.png

And here you have some of the unique advances:
Genoa Advance Banking Traditions.png

Genoa Advance Slave Galleys.png

Genoa Building Slave Barracks.png

Genoa Advance Genoese Galley.png

Genoa Unit Genoese Galley.png

Genoa Advance Genoese Crossbowmen.png

Genoa Advance 28 Alberghi.png

Genoa Reform 28 Alberghi.png

Genoa Advance The Age of the Genoese.png

Here you have some of the flavour events of Genoa:
Genoa Event Merchant Republic.png

Genoa Event Merchant Republic2.png

Genoa Event Merchant Republic3.png

Genoa Event Merchant Republic4.png


Genoa Event Monaco.png

Genoa Building Rock of Monaco.png


Genoa Event Andrea Doria.png

Event Doge Andrea Doria.png

Genoa Reform Great and Minor Councils.png

An old EU4 friend, coming back in a revisited form!​

Oh, and last, but not least, and related to the Byzantine content that we’ll take a look at on Friday, both countries have some unique foreign buildings in Constantinople:
Venice Building Venetian Quarter.png

Genoa Building Galata.png

… And much more, but that’s all for today! And tomorrow, there will be a Tinto Flavour devoted to Serbia and Georgia!

And also remember, you can wishlist Europa Universalis V now! Cheers!
 
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Pavía said:
Sorry about the delay, but today has been for a good reason: With a draft document of 42 pages-long, this is one of the longest Tinto Flavour up to date, and I've also had to restructure it a bit, as I've hit the maximum number of screenshots per post allowed in the forum (and we're just showing a fraction of the flavour content for these countries, lol).
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I graciously forgive you. This time :D
 
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Kotyk-durkotyk said:
Does Venice have some kind of 'Marco Polo heritage' benefit?
Can it see China, Asia at the game start? Or at least as an advance :)

Thanks! Looks so cool!
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This is what you can see at the start with a Mediterranean Christian country (we considered that the knowledge was kind of common by the mid 14th century, as the 'Catalan Atlas' and other portulans show:
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As usual, this isn't final, neither the map itself, nor the terra incognita background.
 
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Seems really solid. I am very curious about late game anyway, 18th century, to see if the emergence of nation-states is physiologically implemented in a way that makes playing tall without colonies impossible (I'm talking about this here because Venice was, among other things, dwarfed by bigger neighbours).
 
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dw70676 said:
Kind of a niche question, but if I play as the ERE, occupy Venice, and steal back the Horses of Saint Mark, is there some acknowledgement of that?
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The satisfaction of a job well done. Also, you would also be giving these modifiers to Constantinople instead of Venice, as they're given from a work of art, depending on its quality:
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If you're defeat as Venice is it possible for someone to annex you capital without full annexing you, always felt weird for states named after their capital to hang around if they don't control it anymore.
 
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Is Fondaco only available only for Genoa and their own territory? I believe Fondaco should be available to both Genoa and Venice and it should be possible to perhaps build it on foreign territory to propagate maritime control and trade availability in those regions for the republics.

Are there any Advances available to Venice for conscripting oarsmen and sailors, as well as constructing armor and artillery? They were extremely proficient in drafting men for galleys and had the best quality armor and artillery in Europe for the good first half of the game.

Does Genoa have events regarding their involvement in colonization of Canaries and Hispaniola? They have founded the model for plantation colonization in West and they became connected at the hip with Spanish Empire through their investments and ventures, both through the Bank of Genoa and their navy and their plantations. Is Bank of St. George something that can be founded by Genoa, or is that something that's tied to a Banking state or something else?

Does Venice have anything to represent their heavy reliance on mercenaries on land, aside from their small number of good quality noble cavalry from Venetian noble houses. Perhaps advances regarding printing press in City of Venice and the universities under Venetian patronage in terrafirma? Venice really should have an option to assign governors into other Italian city-states and this way conduct diplomacy and also potentially annex territory without warfare.
 
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Polesie Admiral said:
Btw, there's a reason for why you don't depict the Scaliger war in eu5? also is this the new fog of war, I'm personally not a fan and prefer the previous eu4 and ck2 fog of war
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We have a couple of open tickets to review the starting wars, like this one and the Polish-Teuton one, as we're not 100% sold on how they should be portrayed at start, so take it as non-final.
 
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