Somehow had the foresight to wall up my capital

Started playing modded Empire Total War for the first time with Minor Factions Revenge, thought it'd be fun to do the Risorgimento a century-ish early, and for some reason, France hates my guts.

I am going to guess it had something to do with their own victory conditions.

Anyway, I holed up in Turin, didn't have many guns as you folks can see, and...

I am never slandering Pikemen ever again. They practically saved the entire defense, and it was me walking up to their (out of ammo) cannons and cavalry and turning into a hedgehog that ended the siege.

Sadly, the campaign is a bust. My territories are now stuck in Turin and Corsica, while I find out that the Pope has more cannons than me. Shame.

Difficult was Hard/Normal since I am a pussy.