the point is that, if the Persian Empire couldn't stop Alexander, no nation in the world culd stop him, there were no great empire in that moment that can be a menace to Alexander Empire, if Alexander doesn't die young, or his generals for ambition divide his empire, probably the Roman, Partian and the Muslim ecc Empire would not exist,, the story will be completely altered!
Fede98k you are right but the Persians couldn't stop Alexander not because Alexander was unstoppable, well it was too late to stop him after the battle of gaugamela that was kind of their last chance.it was more like Persia wasn't in a position to stop anyone at the time with their economy in shambles, lack of cohesion in their military with many armies not even speaking a uniform language which made communication for strategy and tactics almost impossible. Many satrapies revolting and demanding more autonomy from Persia, revolts for independence in Egypt and Afghanistan. Constant raids from the northern steppe tribes, a relatively weak king considering the empire he had to rule, a poor military tradition as Persia usually just used bribes, spy networks, and overwhelming numbers to simply avoid fighting all together when conquering or keeping order, some city states would actually surrender immediatley to Alexander and or join him. Credit where credit is due what Alexander did was impressive, its not like he waltzed into Persepolis and conquered the whole empire without any proper work. but while you beating a man 3 times your size in a fist fight is impressive, it becomes less impressive with the context that that guy was also suffering a heart attack for nearly the entire fight.
So this will be straight forward. I'll take out this sword that I brought and slice you in half like the Gordian. And I soar to the top like the eagles whose feather I would sport and the helmet that I wore as I swatted my many enemies shattered em like a porcelain pot and they'd be screaming for the torture to stop. But I would leave 'em contorted and then they're screaming and roaring until their vocal chords where torn up. And I would holler Bucephalus, hop in my horsey and trot. I win Ivan. I vanquish. I'm immortal, you're not!
Makes me wonder how much further eastwards Alexander could have expanded had he not died young. Perhaps his empire would even end up touching borders with the era's Chinese dynasty or with whatever warlord state currently controlled China's southern end?
@@gengarzilla1685 it's unlikely he could've kept going further east, since he came up face to face with one of the largest armies in the world and an environment completely new to him, plus his tired troops were on the verge of mutiny. He could've kept his empire united longer had he lived, but it's unlikely he could've kept conquering more and more without losing stability in the rest of his empire.
I find it funny that it took Alexander like 20 years or what. Im not trying to disregard your work, I respect it, I cant even beat Portugal as Castille.
Fast conquest is basically impossible in EU4 no matter how good you are (due to game mechanics) Reasons: - You can only take a certain value worth of provinces from a country in a peace deal and it will trigger a 15 year truce with that nation if you take the maximum. - Then you also have to "core" those provinces before taking any more from other nations otherwise you will have tons of revolts to put down. - If you do core them and want to go for someone else's provinces during the truce you might accumulate too much "aggressive expansion" and a bunch of neighboring nations will forma coalition against you and attack you. - Because you can't fight your battles yourself you can't just beat armies 3/4 times your size through clever battle tactics. You can win disadvantageous wars by luring the enemy into mountain provinces or splitting them up and killing smaller stacks, but you can't just play like its a total war game and just steamroll army after army with minimal losses.
Thank you so much! Trying to make the videos more detailed and improving on the format is something that I have really worked hard on during the last few videos, I'm really glad that it is appreciated :)
i very much like the idea of recreating an empire, hope you do more of them. Also I love your videos and i think you deserve way more subscribers, keep it up!
Actually, I haven’t seen any “sunrise invasions”. He did the Aztec invasion of Europe, but I don’t know if anyone has went to America to East Asia. That would be interesting to see
@@makedon9991 yeah back in the ancient times there was no greece but separate kingdoms that spoke Greek including Macedonia in them and bacically what Alexander did was to come and control every single one of them (except Sparta who disagreed) and reunited Greece.
@@unseen23221 In 1911 Macedonia region belonged to Turkey.Greece got the lands cause we reached Thessaloniki before the Bulgars.There is not and there was not a Macedonian nation anywhere.Thankfully all the Slavs habiting Macedonia were kicked out of Greece.Dont disgrace Alexander you Bulgar,Serb,Albanian or whatever you are by claiming his legacy.
thanks i am playing through as England right now and after some research the game is very enjoyable i already have 15.6 hours recorded on steam in just 3 days
Question: why Infantry combat ability? if there was one national idea I would imagine the Macedonians having it's cavalry combat ability, since, y'know, the Companion Cavalry?
Alexander was Greek, from Macedonia, just like Spartans were Greek from Sparta and so on. The former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia was an invention of the Communist party of Yugoslavia after WW2 and it has nothing to do with the historical Macedonia of the ancient world.
Alexander had the blood of a Macedonian not a Greek.. his mother was Greek his dad was Macedonian you know yourself back then an still to this day you take after your dad more than your mum.. Phillip Alexander’s dad took over Greece an the Alexander got the Macedonians an Greeks an Bulgarians an what not an they took over the world.. the whole point is Alexander the Great was not Greek he was Macedonian an always will be.. so stick to your 300 Spartans an stop trying to claim the fame of other natios an move on with your life
Sees Iron Man symbol... He obviously cheated because reasons (jealousy). Great vid man and you did really well to do that with 14 starting development.
Dovska, is it possible that you could somehow continue the glory of at least one empire through CK2 to EU4 to Vic2 with custom dynasty and name of empire from CK2, and create something like a united European empire or something? I think it would be cool for an empire to be created over such an epic timeline.
hello one quick question:How did you make it so the borders for the provinces needed for your goal e.x. the macedonian empire are coloured and marked on the map?
I wonder how the Palaiologos returned to power in your run... Were they under rocks? Returned to be peasants and then rose to power again? At least that was better than having Gonzagas ruling over greek landa ;)
For you idiots saying how it only took Alexander 20 or so years you have to remember All Alexander had to do was fight 1 nation to gain about 90% of his empires size. Which was Persia. As soon as he won his few key battles he gained the entire empire. In this game play you have to fight over 30+ nations over many years with a legit cause. Comparing Politics in Ancient Greece vs Medieval period is COMPLETELY different. Alexander had no one to stop him. Persia was the strongest in the world. Once he got rid of their leadership no one dared fighting him. Trying to do this in EU4 you have tons of major nations breathing down your back. You cant just go and randomly attack any nation because majority of the world will attack you back with much bigger armies (something Alexander did not have to worry about)
How about recreating- actually, not recreating, but merging the ottoman empire and the caliphates in one great empire, starting as a custom nation in arabia?
Well, Alexander is a greek name (even his horse had a greek name). Macedonians spoke a greek dialect, had greek names, worshiped the greek gods, had greek culture, participated in the olympics (that at that time, only the greeks could), and so on. Ancient Macedonians were greek folk.
You may have turkish name, but do ALL the Romanians have turkish names? No. Macedonians had greek names. Also, I presented you with other arguments as well that you didn't answer (language, religion, olympics). Ancient Macedonians were greek people. Today's Macedonia is a geographical region that is divided between Greece, FYROM, Bulgaria, Albania and Serbia. So what do you mean Macedonia is slavic? A part of today's Macedonia is, but not all. Thessaloniki is the second biggest city of Greece and it's in the Macedonia region.
I'm Slightly new to this, i was wondering how he got to do some certain things. Like having his province called Macedonia. Calling his country Macedonia (Mine says the name is taken) And certain map changes to the world. How do you gi back to what he was doing. WHat dlc does he have one?
+ralin day I waited for the Ottomans to declare war on Byzantium and once they did I simply invaded Byzantium and occupied the provinces before the Ottomans got the chance to.
I don't play this game, so forgive me if this is a dumb question, but I notice that there are some thicker borders in some areas, that are different colors on each side (like around Egypt for example). What are those? Are those de jure kingdoms or something?
Ever considered creating an empire from a SEA country? Especially with the new tech mechanics that make things much less eurocentric and instead based more on the origin of different "institutions". So, for example, if you form the first American colonies as a SEA country, its very likely that the Colonialism will develop in your country first rather than in Europe, leading to the European powers getting a tech penalty for a long period of time. The spread of ideas and development rather than arbitrary designations determine your research penalty now.
coalition from whom? he ate most people rather quickly and was quite big rather quickly, discouraging any coalition to form in the first place. also considering people are different religions and care less if a heretic religion is being killed. Sunni Ottomans < Shia. hope that clears things up :)
Could I ask what CBs you used when declaring war? Seemed like you were taking lands you didn't have claims on (which is what I usually stick to taking because it's easier)
“I am your king, Alexander the great! Conqueror of the Persians, Medes, Bactrians and Scythians! Who now rules over the Parthians, Chorasmians and Hyrcanians as far as the Caspian Sea; who's marched over the mountains of the Hindu Kush, crossed the Oxus and Tanais rivers, even the Indus, the first to cross it since Dionysus himself! Who sailed into the Great Sea from the mouth of the Indus, crossed the desert of Gedrosia, where no one had ever led an army. Who took Carmenia, while my fleet sailed the Persian Gulf!”.
good job, now do it in eleven years just like Alexander
Blaht Milker Would the Blobbing mod be allowed?
EU4 was so fun back then without the AE feature
Should've conquered India also like how Alexander wanted to before he died.
the point is that, if the Persian Empire couldn't stop Alexander, no nation in the world culd stop him, there were no great empire in that moment that can be a menace to Alexander Empire, if Alexander doesn't die young, or his generals for ambition divide his empire, probably the Roman, Partian and the Muslim ecc Empire would not exist,, the story will be completely altered!
Fede98k you are right but the Persians couldn't stop Alexander not because Alexander was unstoppable, well it was too late to stop him after the battle of gaugamela that was kind of their last chance.it was more like Persia wasn't in a position to stop anyone at the time with their economy in shambles, lack of cohesion in their military with many armies not even speaking a uniform language which made communication for strategy and tactics almost impossible. Many satrapies revolting and demanding more autonomy from Persia, revolts for independence in Egypt and Afghanistan. Constant raids from the northern steppe tribes, a relatively weak king considering the empire he had to rule, a poor military tradition as Persia usually just used bribes, spy networks, and overwhelming numbers to simply avoid fighting all together when conquering or keeping order, some city states would actually surrender immediatley to Alexander and or join him.
Credit where credit is due what Alexander did was impressive, its not like he waltzed into Persepolis and conquered the whole empire without any proper work. but while you beating a man 3 times your size in a fist fight is impressive, it becomes less impressive with the context that that guy was also suffering a heart attack for nearly the entire fight.
Persia is like "Not AGAIN! we were just coming back!"
Persia: " oh not this shit again"
Perfect.
Did he just say "easily beat the ottomans"?
He Hungary and Poland are all east so the ottomans inf would be the only problem
True brutal greek!
it's very easy to beat the ottomans as Byzantium. ally poland and wait for personal union find another eastern ally and take everything
its easy if the ai doesnt decided to make you deal with them alone and only moving and they have conquered half of hungary
One does not simply beat the Ottomans
*I brought foes to there knees in Phoenicia, breezed from Gaza to Giza, had the Balkans, Persia, Syria, Iraq, and Pakistan in my expansion pack*
While you died in the middle of a game of chess, i got wodka bars flavor less, so why dont you get me a drink so i can stay refreshed
*KUDOS!* Greek for the glory I've got, from winning every single war that I fought!
So this will be straight forward. I'll take out this sword that I brought and slice you in half like the Gordian.
And I soar to the top like the eagles whose feather I would sport and the helmet that I wore as I swatted my many enemies shattered em like a porcelain pot and they'd be screaming for the torture to stop.
But I would leave 'em contorted and then they're screaming and roaring until their vocal chords where torn up.
And I would holler Bucephalus, hop in my horsey and trot.
I win Ivan. I vanquish. I'm immortal, you're not!
MrRohde97 *E N O U G H*
@@dariusiiiemperoroftheachae1818 I dont stand a chance aganist your skills. на здоровье. A drink for your victory
And to think that alexander did all of that in just 11 years. How truly great!
To be fair, he didn't have quite as much organized opposition.
Makes me wonder how much further eastwards Alexander could have expanded had he not died young. Perhaps his empire would even end up touching borders with the era's Chinese dynasty or with whatever warlord state currently controlled China's southern end?
@@gengarzilla1685 it's unlikely he could've kept going further east, since he came up face to face with one of the largest armies in the world and an environment completely new to him, plus his tired troops were on the verge of mutiny. He could've kept his empire united longer had he lived, but it's unlikely he could've kept conquering more and more without losing stability in the rest of his empire.
I find it funny that it took Alexander like 20 years or what. Im not trying to disregard your work, I respect it, I cant even beat Portugal as Castille.
Fast conquest is basically impossible in EU4 no matter how good you are (due to game mechanics)
Reasons:
- You can only take a certain value worth of provinces from a country in a peace deal and it will trigger a 15 year truce with that nation if you take the maximum.
- Then you also have to "core" those provinces before taking any more from other nations otherwise you will have tons of revolts to put down.
- If you do core them and want to go for someone else's provinces during the truce you might accumulate too much "aggressive expansion" and a bunch of neighboring nations will forma coalition against you and attack you.
- Because you can't fight your battles yourself you can't just beat armies 3/4 times your size through clever battle tactics. You can win disadvantageous wars by luring the enemy into mountain provinces or splitting them up and killing smaller stacks, but you can't just play like its a total war game and just steamroll army after army with minimal losses.
~11 years.
Mirek Bisna it was an age of war and conquest.
Now look at today. The age of war and conquest is over WAY over.
because there is no peace deals in ancient times, in order to invade, you need to kill the king
If you want a fast conquest, get the extended timeline mod and play as Mongolia in the 13th century. You can thank me later ;)
I like how much more intricate you have made your videos. Showing much more than just the provinces you conquered and the end results.
Thank you so much! Trying to make the videos more detailed and improving on the format is something that I have really worked hard on during the last few videos, I'm really glad that it is appreciated :)
Why the hell is this not an achievement yet?
mayby macedonia is not a country in Eu 4
What is love Their are other custom nation achievements.
It is a region though.
Каран Аргеад You mean province?
CaptainCrape Both, actually
“Easily beat the Ottomans”
Are you okay?
13:24 *Well-timed crescendo.*
yep. couldnt say more
These videos are great. You're a champion Dovska.
Thanks! :D
What about me?
Ulm world conquest?
I approve
Bitch STOLE YOUR EMPIRE
Ulm 2 OP 4 just world conquest, Galactic conquest maybe?
Yes.
i very much like the idea of recreating an empire, hope you do more of them. Also I love your videos and i think you deserve way more subscribers, keep it up!
Thanks! :)
Holy crap how much dip did you spend on culture conversion!?
Hey :) Great work, especially on Ironman mode. I can see that you pay great attention to detail, both in governing and in making your video.
The fact that Alexander did those only in like 15-20 years... He was sure on of the greatest commanders of all time.
@Dragon Dimosthenis so is every country.
Less
I like these videos where you recreate empires. Can you do a another one?
Absolutely! Do you have any particular empire in mind? :)
+Dorsal I don't know. Maybe the Franks or Kievan Rus'?
Try South African Empire, please. Or Tibet. But, it can be very challenging.
+Dovska mongol empire? :DDD
3rd Reich as Ulm :P
I love the fact you show the culture conversion and show it with a few jumps, great idea
Another great video, i love how you use the map and colour it for when you do conquest and culture!
could you play as aztec/maya/inca and focus on taking/colonize china or europe.
Funny, that's what I'm doing right now in my EU4 game as the Aztecs.
lol Inca. He will probably have to restart that one a few times.
sik3xploit i did it in first try. lol
He did the Aztecs and invaded Iberia and part of France, and conquered the New World as the Incas
Actually, I haven’t seen any “sunrise invasions”. He did the Aztec invasion of Europe, but I don’t know if anyone has went to America to East Asia. That would be interesting to see
Alexander is the greatest for us Greek leader cuz for his timeline it was difficult to conquer the whole persia. Greetings from greece.
Conqueror of "City states",so called Greece,today
@@makedon9991 yeah back in the ancient times there was no greece but separate kingdoms that spoke Greek including Macedonia in them and bacically what Alexander did was to come and control every single one of them (except Sparta who disagreed) and reunited Greece.
@@staserstaa1969 lol
@@makedon9991 www.impantokratoros.gr/makedonien-warheit.de.aspx 🤫🤫🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷
Alexander The Great,Macedonian king and "CONQUEROR OF CITY STATES" (so called Greece) and Persia
you converted the Pontic (Greek) to regular Greek? :-)
gunterke At the end, In Crimea there is the last Pontic province.
Like from me.Nice gaming.Im from Serbia Belgrade.Sometimes you can be the ally with Serbia.
Next: World Conquest as Ryukyu.
Please.
Excellent Greek conversion, must've taken a lot of diplo points for all that dedication.
Lol used the province in Greece and not the country Macedonia.
You sir just made all Greeks happy and offended all Macedonians
Kian cent his capital was at thesolonica right?rip my spelling
He wasn't wrong to begin with
jiman kim Thessaloniki -- yes, that was indeed the capital.
@Bitch
But it's independent, isn't it?
@@unseen23221 In 1911 Macedonia region belonged to Turkey.Greece got the lands cause we reached Thessaloniki before the Bulgars.There is not and there was not a Macedonian nation anywhere.Thankfully all the Slavs habiting Macedonia were kicked out of Greece.Dont disgrace Alexander you Bulgar,Serb,Albanian or whatever you are by claiming his legacy.
How do you make custom flags like that? Also the way you kept the neutrality with the purple is amazing.
As a Greek Cypriot, i applaud you!
These are such cool videos keep up the great work Dovska!
funny how you conquered byzantium and their family ends up ruling your nation
I want to buy this game but I see and hear that it's not very noob friendly..
There is indeed a learning curve to EU4 but it is well worth buying IMO since the game is very enjoyable and extremely replayable.
turn on cheats and play around to learn thats how i learnded how to play ck2 and eu4
If you start with an easy faction like france or Austria, it should by very enjoyable for a noob, or like me, with my first game with austia ^^
thanks i am playing through as England right now and after some research the game is very enjoyable i already have 15.6 hours recorded on steam in just 3 days
My first game was with Brandenburg :l It went well
Hey, did you ever tought of doing a super timelapse where you start a game in CK2, go trought Europa Univeralis IV and finishes it in Victoria 2?
He would conquer the world by 1700
And what about HOI4?
TheLegoCreator12344 I don't think it's possible to go all the way to hoi
That would be awesome
some made a ck2 to hoi4 timelapse, its up on youtube and has links to the converters
Question: why Infantry combat ability? if there was one national idea I would imagine the Macedonians having it's cavalry combat ability, since, y'know, the Companion Cavalry?
I dont need to scroll down to know that greeks will say macedonia is greek and macedonians saying macedonia is macedonian
Do you mean west bulgaria?
I've never seen a Macedonian yet. Just angry Greeks that have no idea about Macedonian identity
Clearly the slavs are the true Greeks.
There is Slavs and Slavs , Greeks and Greeks but only one kind of Macedonians.
Obviously Alexander was from Nigeria #staywoke
I love these videos!
Why Not Just Call It The Great Alexanders Empire Since We're Literally Talking About Alexander The Great King Of Conquerors
Anyone else notice that scotland was absorbed by England, but lives on in the USA?
As a Macedonian/Turkish, I never thought I would see a EU4 timelapse like this. Such an interesting and well established idea.
Half greek half turk?
Keep these coming!! :D
Alexander was Greek, from Macedonia, just like Spartans were Greek from Sparta and so on. The former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia was an invention of the Communist party of Yugoslavia after WW2 and it has nothing to do with the historical Macedonia of the ancient world.
Said it on culture my friend on game
Well said
Alexander had the blood of a Macedonian not a Greek.. his mother was Greek his dad was Macedonian you know yourself back then an still to this day you take after your dad more than your mum.. Phillip Alexander’s dad took over Greece an the Alexander got the Macedonians an Greeks an Bulgarians an what not an they took over the world.. the whole point is Alexander the Great was not Greek he was Macedonian an always will be.. so stick to your 300 Spartans an stop trying to claim the fame of other natios an move on with your life
that's right
Sees Iron Man symbol...
He obviously cheated because reasons (jealousy). Great vid man and you did really well to do that with 14 starting development.
Dovska, is it possible that you could somehow continue the glory of at least one empire through CK2 to EU4 to Vic2 with custom dynasty and name of empire from CK2, and create something like a united European empire or something? I think it would be cool for an empire to be created over such an epic timeline.
You know, I was really enjoying this but then about a minute in I realized that there is a province in Turkey called "TimOnion".
I like your vids, keep em up :)
I'll like to see a Chinese Naval Empire.
As soon as rights of men is released, I'm going to try to do a colonial Qing empire :)
Qing isn't Han Chinese, its Jurchen ;p Crusader Mings FTW!
Something I observe is that everybody gets the coastal provinces at the first wars.
Wow Liang almost unified China? YAAAASSSSS
Nice work!
dude this is some op idae set ofcourse you can do this with that
Nice Video
Ah, the Great greek Lebensaurm project of 1756, how could I forget this historic colonization?
hello one quick question:How did you make it so the borders for the provinces needed for your goal e.x. the macedonian empire are coloured and marked on the map?
5:41 *wait a sec dat leaders last name reminds me of something*
It's unbelieveble that Alexander needed only 10 years to do that.
I wonder how the Palaiologos returned to power in your run... Were they under rocks? Returned to be peasants and then rose to power again? At least that was better than having Gonzagas ruling over greek landa ;)
Eugh, rough game for Muscovy.
Fortunately for the Orthodox faith, Macedonia was hardcore.
Technically the name should show "Greece" as Macedon was a Greek city state at the time of Alexander.
For you idiots saying how it only took Alexander 20 or so years you have to remember All Alexander had to do was fight 1 nation to gain about 90% of his empires size. Which was Persia. As soon as he won his few key battles he gained the entire empire. In this game play you have to fight over 30+ nations over many years with a legit cause. Comparing Politics in Ancient Greece vs Medieval period is COMPLETELY different. Alexander had no one to stop him. Persia was the strongest in the world. Once he got rid of their leadership no one dared fighting him.
Trying to do this in EU4 you have tons of major nations breathing down your back. You cant just go and randomly attack any nation because majority of the world will attack you back with much bigger armies (something Alexander did not have to worry about)
How about recreating- actually, not recreating, but merging the ottoman empire and the caliphates in one great empire, starting as a custom nation in arabia?
Start as Mongolia and make the Mongolian Empire great again
your empire is great and all but I cant help but love the power Scandinavia AI
macedonia one of the greatest greek empires
Ιωάννης Ο Μακέδων Βασιλεύς ıt was macedonian ,What part of ‘macedonia’ you didnt understand dumb ?🤣
Well, Alexander is a greek name (even his horse had a greek name). Macedonians spoke a greek dialect, had greek names, worshiped the greek gods, had greek culture, participated in the olympics (that at that time, only the greeks could), and so on. Ancient Macedonians were greek folk.
Hector K - L Im Romanian but I have a Turkish name so?They influenced by greek culture.Macedonia is slavic.
You may have turkish name, but do ALL the Romanians have turkish names? No. Macedonians had greek names. Also, I presented you with other arguments as well that you didn't answer (language, religion, olympics). Ancient Macedonians were greek people. Today's Macedonia is a geographical region that is divided between Greece, FYROM, Bulgaria, Albania and Serbia. So what do you mean Macedonia is slavic? A part of today's Macedonia is, but not all. Thessaloniki is the second biggest city of Greece and it's in the Macedonia region.
Hector K - L Ok,Macedonia is independent right now.
I'm Slightly new to this, i was wondering how he got to do some certain things. Like having his province called Macedonia. Calling his country Macedonia (Mine says the name is taken) And certain map changes to the world. How do you gi back to what he was doing. WHat dlc does he have one?
why don't you play with extended timeline
He wants the achivements.Also, with ET is very easy to do all that because you have much more time
Achievements are disabled for ET
yea i know but i mean you could councer all world
+AretusAlen Are Oh yeah very easily
Creating a custom nation doesn't disable achievements?
I'd be more impressed if you had done that in 20 years.
@Zeta just break truce
@Zeta I know
-Sees the Greek culture dominating Anatolia
-haha fuck yeah
-assimilates Bulgaria
-nooo
chichoskruch21 wouldnt you like being a greek? :)
8:50 HERESY WHERE ARE THE HELLENIST'S?!
Can you do more colonial timelapses like in the dutch one?
Best video yet
Well, put togehter video. Also this is a mighty AI-Bohtan right there.
Colombia with a force limit of 121? What happened there?
What about the Bactrian Greeks?
Dovska could you please do a walk through? that would be great!
Hey dude , u think u can make a Wallachian Or Moldovian empire ?
great video
Why Does The Principality Have A Duke In Charge?
What was that weird bit at the beginning.
How u destroyed Byzantium before the Ottomans ?
+ralin day I waited for the Ottomans to declare war on Byzantium and once they did I simply invaded Byzantium and occupied the provinces before the Ottomans got the chance to.
u can destroy Byzantium at the start pretty much as anyone. Teutons, Aragonese, Ulm, u name it. just no cb them und u should be fine
Arras von Schlieffen Ulm? Enjoy transporting your troops to the balkans by the time they are there Costantinobre is already the capital of the Turks.
how did you do that flag i don't see that symbol anywhere
I don't play this game, so forgive me if this is a dumb question, but I notice that there are some thicker borders in some areas, that are different colors on each side (like around Egypt for example). What are those? Are those de jure kingdoms or something?
Most of them represent rivers, or different regions.
Heeeeey! That's pretty good!
the memes
Should've gone with Animist ;)
can you play macedonia without creating them in the nation designer?
No sadly not :(
You should have used the ck2 converter to get the hellenic religion via the ruler gustomizer.
Ever considered creating an empire from a SEA country? Especially with the new tech mechanics that make things much less eurocentric and instead based more on the origin of different "institutions". So, for example, if you form the first American colonies as a SEA country, its very likely that the Colonialism will develop in your country first rather than in Europe, leading to the European powers getting a tech penalty for a long period of time. The spread of ideas and development rather than arbitrary designations determine your research penalty now.
Nice one
How do you deal with all that aggressive expansion!?!
How do you guys do the history timeline thing
How do you avoid coalitions? It seems like you should have had a coalition hell with all that aggressive expansion.
coalition from whom? he ate most people rather quickly and was quite big rather quickly, discouraging any coalition to form in the first place. also considering people are different religions and care less if a heretic religion is being killed. Sunni Ottomans < Shia. hope that clears things up :)
Hello Dovska, will you try playing Novgorod?
Maybe, I already got a couple of timelapses planned but after I have finished them I may just give Novgorod a shot ;)
Thank yoy then!
Btw, if youll play Novgorod, please dont form Russia, just for a bit of roleplay
Could I ask what CBs you used when declaring war? Seemed like you were taking lands you didn't have claims on (which is what I usually stick to taking because it's easier)
For the most part I just used the Holy War CB which you get if you choose religious ideas. :)
“I am your king, Alexander the great! Conqueror of the Persians, Medes, Bactrians and Scythians! Who now rules over the Parthians, Chorasmians and Hyrcanians as far as the Caspian Sea; who's marched over the mountains of the Hindu Kush, crossed the Oxus and Tanais rivers, even the Indus, the first to cross it since Dionysus himself! Who sailed into the Great Sea from the mouth of the Indus, crossed the desert of Gedrosia, where no one had ever led an army. Who took Carmenia, while my fleet sailed the Persian Gulf!”.
The Three Mountains achievement? Why not
Did that leader... live through the entire game... 0_0
Wallachia did pretty good during this game
How do you handle agressive expansion? I always suck at that so that's an honest question :/
0/10 Alexander did it all in one rulers life. JK, really awesome video!
How the name of the ruler show off in the top of the screen?
I added it whilst editing the video :)
How do you get client states that aren't something boring like "Syria?"
The Art of War dlc. It allows you to create custom client states that you can name whatever you want :)
Dammit now I have to get all the eu4 dlc so I can do that.