Recommended ideas for Byzantium? - Paradox Interactive Forums Administrative first, then Quantity (BYZ always seems to have looow manpower), then trade, then Humanist has been my preferred choice In my latest game I tried Humanism first (great to get the balkan cultures accepted early), then Diplomatic (I like to play the PU game and always have too many dip relations), then Administrative
Ottomans not attacking Byz Venice guide - Paradox Interactive Forums But like I said, Ottos never declare on Byz in my game and are very happy to let my War Exhaustion and Unrest climb I remember in older patches, with different nations (like Aragon), the Byz-vassal defensive war strat worked fine, Ottos would declare But this is my first time playing as Venice and they're just not budging
1. 33 Byzantium Strategy (Guide) | Paradox Interactive Forums I recently ran BYZ opener in the 1 33 beta, and building free company --> galleys to barrage assault forts is still viable (no free mothballs) It can vary in difficulty a bit depending on who Ottomans ally (seems to still be mostly Aq Qoyunlu early on) and who their first target is (anybody in Anatolia is vastly preferable)
Unorthodox ways to restore full power Byzantium 2 Aragon, Portugal, and Castile: All of the Iberians have impressive navies that can be gouged further, all 3 can work Granada --> Algiers --> Ottomans or just enforce peace on Ottos during BYZ war, then vassal BYZ, feed, annex, drift, form
What is best religion build for Byz RE? - Paradox Interactive Forums Recently, I was wondering how to build a strong, safe Roman Empire and came up with some ideas Please, assess them and indicate strengths and weaknesses The simplest and most boring idea is to use the "Mend the Great Schism" decision, and then
Can Byz still become HRE Emperor? - Paradox Interactive Forums "Easy" solution to be catholic HRE emperor as Byz You beat Ottoman to a pulp and connect Constantinople -> Greece -> Albania You attack and annex Ragusa, send 0 ducat funded missionary on the province, wait a while and then let the catholic rebels convert all your provinces and voila, now you can be elected emperor
Improved Byzantine Mission Tree | Paradox Interactive Forums - Constantinople gains (Special Latin Rights: Active as long as BYZ owns Constantinople Venice (VEN) and Genoa (GEN) +10% local trade power, has docking rights to province) - BYZ unlocks decision - Revoke Latin Rights "Why have rights to the city when we could own it?" - BYZ gains opinion modifer -25 (rejected generous offer) (monthly decay -1)
Restore the Byzantine Empire - Paradox Interactive Forums You cannot vassalize byz release byz as a vassal because the decision requires them NOT to exist So it would only work via greece, morea, achaea, athens, and selling them all needed provinces Once I calculated the OE for All Provinces needed and as I remeber it is possible to achieve it in 2 wars without generating to much trouble for the vassal
Restore the Byzantine Empire Decision - Paradox Interactive Forums Furthermore, it is strange, because at game start, BYZ does not start with all those cores, but you do get them if you enact the decision which only requires you to own the provinces I am sure you can cheese the system by starting as a non-BYZ, do the proper conversions, make it so you can get all those provinces in one or separate wars - all