anyone experience with Venice??

[louigi]

i've had a very fun and interesting but very challenging experience

I started a campaign with Venice yesterday and everything was going fine, especially economically, i didn't know where to throw that money haha. conquered 4 rebel settlements by turn 15. Spent the next few turns buiding up my cities and turned ancona into a town. spent some money on getting an alliance and improving relations with the HRE. Also managed to seduce a german general WITH germanic blood with one of my venetian princesses. then around turn 30 i think pisa attacks me, they got excommunicated so i prepared to go full on against pisa. took pisa pretty easily, few turns later i take genova. Pisa has 3 regions left but I see with my spy that they have still many units in the field around firenze .

Then suddenly serbia attacks my capital venice with a big stack. I manage to break their siege by sending my doge that's in bologna with an army with many merceneries and elite units from my castle Verona. the thing is i can't move forces from pisa all the time because there's a plague there. And then even worse.. the Eastern Romans land near ancone with a small but deadly force. they succeed in taking the settlement (). then next turn I attack a pisan army that's besieging genova. but to no avail because next turn they siege it again and the turn after i couldn't break it anymore, i lacked soldier there. so Pisa takes Genova as well. so i lost 2 settlements in 2-3 turns hahah i'm doomed


anyway this was very interesting and fun. there were multiple ways I could've handled all these situations.

I wonder if there's someone that had the same experience with venice? waging war against pisa that keeps on producing armies and also being attacked by both serbia and the ERE?