EU4 1.36: Byzantium World Conquest Opening Moves (1444 - 1543)
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Same, to be honest -- it holds a special place in my heart, too.
The best eu4 playthrough channel back at it again!
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I think you should've went with one faith too. Byzantium might be the single best country for it, its such a waste to not do it
Yep, very true. It's just I have 2 One Faith runs on this channel, and did a few with Byzantium... decided to go for a chill ride this time.
I love the chill manner in which you explain what you're doing, the editing is great as well!
Thank you - much appreciated! :)
As always, excellent job my friend :)
Hey, thanks a bunch for the support!
Nice guide. I'd just add two things: 1) should have spy networked ottomans earlier. 2) Should have moved a merchant to Ragusa, and improved relations very early in the game for Establish Communities. Great guide!
Just wanted to say this is a great video and I can't wait to see the rest. Thank you!
Thanks a lot, more coming soon!
So glad that you are back. Best EU IV vids hands down
Thank you 🙏
Very good Alex. Your calm pace to explain things make easier to understand. Thank you.
Thank you :) Glad it's working for you!
Hell yeah! Cant wait for the Next episode
Thanks, working on it as we speak!
Well, for a chilled first 100 years, You seem to have set yourself up really well. i can't wait to see episode 2!
Thanks, I was actually surprised how much I was able to take with zero coalitions. My first few games as Byzantium went down in flames of coalition wars...
Great video as always Alex!
Thanks so much :)
Great video. I can't wait for the second part.
Thank you :) seeing that we got our 500 likes, I’m hard at work on it!
You deserve so many more subs. Best EU4 Channel!
Thanks for your support! I'll need to work harder for those subs :)
This is an excellent video, really enjoyed your style and commentary. Been trying Byzantium for the first time over the last few weeks and failing miserably, so hopefully can do a bit better using your strats!
best narrator for eu4 playthroughs, nice video mate
Thanks, much appreciated!
Very well done!
Thanks a ton for the kind words!
Another common way to deal with the reversal is to go after your claims in Naples. If you can complete the war with Epirus before Alfonso dies, you can move your troops to Rome (typically allying the Pope for your mission) and take your claims. All of these get you up to 92 development or so. This greatly reduces the amount of development you have to do at the beginning, gives you a 60 tradition admiral to fight the Ottomans, and gets the land before they get PU'd by Castille/Aragon/France.
It's also worth noting that you can remove the debuff to your ship building time by getting Venice/Genoa to 50 relations.
Thanks for this info - super helpful!
@@StrategySphere Happy to help! :D
The nation I wanted to see played by you! Let's watch...
Thanks! :) Hope the series doesn't disappoint...
An amazing video as always Alex, I rewatched the korea video you did awhile back and it has inspired me to do my own Choson One run which has been great fun! Im sure this series will do the same!
Thanks for your support! I agree, Korea is a great nation to play -- as are some of its neighbours. After I complete a few runs in Europe which I wanted to do for a while, I'm going back east :)
@@StrategySphere Epic 😎
Excellent video dude.
Thanks much :)
great as always, if you get lucky with a moral mil advisor, taking him + religious wars is enough to get the bonus to fix your army without having to do the deving mission if i recall.
Ah, thanks - didn't realize that! I wasn't lucky with my early advisors though.
Hi, I'd be super curious to see how you would play a ryukyu->tibet-> horde run as opposed to doing the shogun into emperor of china china option. great content as alwaysm keep it up!
Never tried it, but sure sounds interesting. Adding to my (long!) list of game plots...
It's pretty fun! Forming Yuan for their excellent ideas is a great next step after becoming a horde, since the event that makes you a horde also changes your culture group to Altaic.
Actually, I've never formed Yuan (missed the opportunity to do it in my Aztec to Manchu game). Sounds like a fun idea.
good to see you again Alex
Thank you, much appreciated :)
Why are you like this? Why do you make me wait for the next episode?? BTW you made me attempt a world conquest, im using your strategy with stacking admin efficiency and im making a progress! I really enjoy your content
Haha it just takes me tons of time to edit :) As for stacking modifiers, another video is coming up, where I stacked both the admin and diplo annexation to the max... was fun.
Yessssss my man!!
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He's back again and now with Byz. Fantastic!
Thank you :)
Woooo, new video!
More to come!
Bro i forgot to subscribe yoyr channel now i wonder i didn't got notif from you lol also keep up the good work it is nice to have a good eu4 content creator like you.
Thank you, much appreciated! :)
I can still remember getting the Rome achievements back in 2018, this video reminds me of that, I love this so much.
One of my first world conquests was with Byzantium, took me a few months back in 2019 I think... Now all it takes is a few evenings :)
@@StrategySphere I don't have the patience to do a full world conquest so I really enjoy being able to watch you do yours. It's relaxing to listen and watch and just an overall very chill style.
I am honored to give the 500th like
Absolute legend!
Thanks for the video 🎉🎉🎉
You bet! Thanks for watching :)
Thanks for the video
You bet! Thanks a lot :)
I love the attitude of no rush. So many videos and Reddit posts that only talk of the max speed. Very refreshing to see
Thanks, much appreciated. For me it's an escapist game, I soft of build stories in my head as I go along. Nothing wrong with some speed running, of course! :)
Very nice video! I will have to try this approach and see if I can finally rescue poor, abused Byzantium. The only thing I'm worried about in terms of repeatability is how you were within one month of bankruptcy.
Thanks much :) To avoid bankruptcy, you could just peace out earlier in the first war, I pushed it to the limit a bit. I'm sure there are smarter strategies (like BudgetMonk's), I just went with the simplest one.
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31:38 I guess the remains of the ottoman army became mercenaries since their empire has fallen, and since they were ortodox slaves maybe they would be happy to aid the Byzantines for the correct price, similar to the Knight templar.
Oh, this makes sense. After all, fighting is all they'd know how to do at this point!
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Just a heads up, the next major patch will be updating the Holland Mission Tree, the Burgundian Mission Tree and the Mission Trees of Middle East Minors. All of which will impact the ability to attempt to follow this playthrough point to point. Holland and other Frisian minors will now become extremely rebellious after the Burgundian Succession once the Reformation starts, guaranting the creation of the Netherlands should the territories remain in AI contol, also will make it a pain for the player if not dealt with quickly. Also, the Turkic and Persian minors will be more of a threat now as their missions will now result in the region being more turbulent, no longer will they be gobbled up by AQ and QQ, it also means you'll likely have to contend with a Mamluks with strong allies as opposed to Mamluks with more territories.
Awesome info! This game keeps changing - almost endless replay ability.
This is great
Merci :)
I fondly remember my Bosia game :)
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Pretty good opening strat of avoiding the no cb war and just being byzantium at start.
Awesome, Part 2 coming soon!
Nice!
Thanks! :)
The newest Update has made Byzantium super fun and after the hard beginning, they are super powerful. In my last play, I did a world conquest one tag, one faith, one culture on Ironman. It was my first one and can recommend using Byzantium. They have good culture and faith convert, that can be boosted with ideas and great buildings. They can also get special vassals that automatically get annexed with the ruler’s death. Did also all Byzantium mission, that are also more fun now.
Congratulations! And One Culture as a non-Horde? That's still beyond my skillset :) I agree on every point -- Byzantium is really worth playing now.
@@StrategySphere Thank you, yes it was "just" as Byzantiums updated own goverment type. The key is to start early with culture converting and Anatolia now convert for free because of Byzantium mission tree! Religius ideas boost culture convert, culture next to the province too, admin efficientcy, golden period, great buildings and Byzantium goverment too (i think). Getting the max 90% discount is the key. Also, not waisting diplo points on annexing vassals too and redusing province develupment saves points . Religius conversion is good with Byzantium because of national ideas and Religius ideas. Getting extra missionarys from getting religious sites and great building help a lot. It was only my secound WC, so good planing is key. Many great building can be used just by having the culture as accepted culture.
I think you have the skill set to do it, Byzantium is now a good nation to do it.
All this makes a ton of sense! Thank you, this is quite an inspiration for a fun game.
I'm even slower by attacking Ottoman at 1470 because Ottoman refuse to attack me but once i attack them Ottoman are weak enough for my alliance especially Austria-Hungary to steamroll the Ottomans. This allow me to expand without dealing with loans so my realm are pretty much stable at the get go.
The Greek merchant extortion also really helps my finance while i cannot take 1% loans(My merchant understanably are very upset for awhile)
Finally i find it funny the mercenary discount mission you though it would be use to fight Ottoman but i just use it to ally Austria and scare off Ottoman. I even disband the mercenary once i ally Austria except free company haha
Ah yeah, this approach makes sense. You can easily build a good power base without even touching the Ottomans -- the problem is, they'll grow like crazy and then it's an endless series of wars to gobble them up.
@@StrategySphere Eh. Don't worry Ottoman without Constantinople are massively gimped and Mamluk(or weirdly Aq Qonyulu-Ottoman alliance) are strong enough especially in recent patch to checked Ottoman to not expand too crazy
This is very true.
this dude is like the bob ross of eu4 tbh
I had to look up the reference, loved his style :)
Never clicked a video faster lmao
Love the quick click! :) Hope the video didn't disappoint.
@@StrategySphere It never does!
What visual mods are you using? I love the way it looks!
Hi! It's "theatrum orbis terrarum" from the Steam workshop.
I get this more of chill game, but personally a better start is to attack and take land from Naples as soon as they are freed from Aragon giving you a bunch of development and crow land early on (assuming you didn’t give out to many privileges early to keep there influence low). It’s a little tricky though since they still have a pretty strong army even when they just get independence and have no allies, if you ally and get military access with the Papal state you can just park your army at there border and immediately siege there capital which is usually there only fort, once you take it be there main priority allowing you to carpet siege most of there country easily allowing you to take over without fighting there army once. You can annex most of the state other then one or two provinces, it is a lot of development to use adm points on and you’ll have to deal with rebels with them being Italian catholic provinces and it’s already pretty RNG when Aragon decides to free them, but I think it’s more efficient then just developing the provinces to remove the bad privilege. But again I understand this is supposed to be a more chilled experience.
Hi! Yep, that would be a great way to open some nice new opportunities, like conquering Italy fast and getting those critical Rome missions. I did it in my test run and it worked well. But as you say, it’s quite RNG and it may bring you in conflict with France or Spain early on…
want to see second part already
Thanks, working on it as we speak :)
I would recommend trying to ally muscovy, they are a good defensive alliance
Yep, absolutely. I've allied them and later on PUed them! :) They're almost always open to an alliance.
Everyone please leave a like on this cus I desperately need a pt 2
Thanks, we've made it! Part 2 coming soon :)
Could you pls make another vid by taking independent path in the Council of Florence?
Hi! I wonder what the practical difference of this scenario would be, do you know?
@@StrategySphere No Catholic alliances would be available, so we must recover Greece only by ourselves (and with some Orthodox small nations)
@@NiceBoaT_98 ahh, I see! That’s the next level of challenge :) I’m putting it in my queue (which is quite long, to be honest!)
Just want to make sure you know that your musical choices were appreciated. Though for this playthrough the lyrics would have to change - "Not Istanbul, it's Constantinople..."
Thanks a lot for that :) Haha and I agree with the lyrics change!
Any tips to form the roman empire as wallachia? In the latest patches I find this hard, either hitting a hard to beat france later or hard to beat spain or powerful alliances
Hi! I’ve never played Wallachia, but I’m addressing a hard-to-beat France in Part 2 of this campaign. Please stay tuned, I should be able to post the second video tomorrow. There are many ways to do it, and I’m demonstrating a few.
@@StrategySphere great, can't wait to see what you do with this run, subscribed, what is your opinion on first 2 ideas admin and espionage for stacking advisor cost reduction? Instead of admin quantity first?
Thank you! Part 2 is now live, I actually spent a lot of time addressing the point you raised on the tough France and strong alliances. As for Admin / Espionage I think it's a great combo, I sometimes go for Espionage first as it's an awesome group. Admin, I usually go as the 3rd or 4th group...
Does anyone know how to get rid of the bug that does not visually show the money you get or powerpoints you get? Reinstall game? (Do you lose safes if you reinstall?)
It's the first time I'm hearing about it. If you uninstall the game without deleting your save games folder, you should be safe. Or just move your save games to another location and then drop them back after the reinstall.
what is this fort in the begining of video?
Hey, it’s a “Greek fort”, I don’t know which one :(
What is the map mod you're using?
Hi! It’s “theatrum orbis terrarum” from the Steam Workshop.
why do you choose quantity for a world conquest? I seldom get mil ideas, stuff like diplo
eligious\admin is so much more important for wc
when I was doing the Byz WC in this patch I actually chose espionage as one of my first ideas so I can lay hands on the italian provinces early on and have -20% AE doing so
Hi! Quantity is a "quality of life" idea for me. It enables me to quickly overwhelm the opponent, while losing less troops (as it now has attrition reduction), and a large army deters coalitions. Also, later on it's earlier to take the Military hegemony with Quantity.
Espionage is a great early idea set, I personally see it as situational - great for playing inside the HRE or in Italy, for example. It also has a nice synergy with Divine.
It's all just a matter of playstyle / preferences, in the end.
@@StrategySphere yeah so true, definitely a matter of playstyle! your content is great btw keep it up
There's actually a very easy byz strat, and that's to start as the ottomans, release and play as byz
You can get 12k ducats as byz this way,rennaisance, all of your cores + what the ottomans own at game start as vassals within 10 years of game start
Fun fact: you can also start as ming and abuse the unguarded the nomadic frontier with the chinese releaseables to get 150k ducats and own all of china also within 10 years of game start, its a very very easy WC
I have never considered this, I think this has to be my next run😂
@@dirtyblock3894 Lemoncake has a video on the byz run, its actually hilariously strong
The only downside is you end up with some rowdy vassals but that's fine
Yep, that's very true. However you won't gain most of Byzantium's achievements that way...
What map mod is that?
what map mod do you use?
Hi! It’s “theatrum orbis terrarum” from the Steam Workshop.
a good video indeed but imo shoulv'e abused the pronoia system way more by releasing and reconquest of vassals like karaman and syria and so on
Hi, thanks! Yep, I didn't see the need -- as I had all those claims to conquer. Will start using them as we expand.
what is your graphic map bro
Hi! It’s “theatrum orbis Terrarum” from the Steam Workshop.
Why not St. Nicholas as first icon? together with the icon mission its so insane early
You're right. I was discovering the mission tree as I went along to be honest, so my choices are far from optimal!
@@StrategySphere fair enough!
thanks for the great content bro :)
Is this played in normal difficulty?
Yep, I only play on Normal.
Why not take exploration after you won against the mamlucks?
Hi! Could be an interesting style for sure. I simply haven't found the need of Exploration for a world conquest outside of some specific scenarios (like starting on a remote island or in the Americas).
@@StrategySphere it is to gain free expansion in Africa and Asia by taking any red sea coastline from mamlucks. This way with religius cb and no truce you can alternate all te AE for each religion block
@@gabri-immortale explo is way too slow to be optimal on a world conquest. It can be used but why would you rather creating a colony in 20 years when you can just conquer 5x the amount of province in a 3 year long war?
Yep, I agree. It's nice to open up new expansion routes and establish new borders to Deus Vult from. It's just for me it's a bit too slow, as Byzantium we start in the middle of the world and can expand in all directions.
Pax Byzantium
The peaceful empire that never was! :)
Of course EU5 will have an interesting Byz gameplay.
Around 2030 and 12 DLCs (300$) later that is...
Haha, sounds about right :)
No please don’t show this to me right now, I’ve been trying to get true heir of Timur and now I want to play Byzantium
Haha Byzantium isn't going anywhere!
Very true! Thank you for all your videos, they are the best eu4 videos I have ever seen.
I demand PDX give EVERY country unique overly punishing estate privileges. /s
Like the Byzantines were the only ones in a shitty state? ffs. So glad I did my Byzantium runs before this garbage.
Haha very true :) It feels odd they've gone for so much punishment for the poor Byzantium. At the same time, getting rid of those "crumbling empire" debuffs feels good.