This SECRET Way to PLAY as Byzantium is CURSED - EU4 Guide 1.36
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- čas přidán 30. 11. 2023
- In this video, we're going to be revealing the true Byzantium secret! EU4 Byzantium guide 2023.
If you're playing Europa Universalis IV, then you'll want to check out this guide to find out all the hidden Byzantine secrets. In this guide, we'll show you how to get the best out of Byzantium in the EU4 game, from conquering the Mediterranean to building an empire that will last!
So don't miss out on this exclusive EU4 Byzantium guide - it's sure to help you win the game!
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I'm honestly surprised there wasn't a double secret restore Hellenism path
Like norse for Scandynavia
That would have been so cool.
IIRC there’s only an Easter egg event for an animist Advisor that references the Third Odyssey mod.
I’m very glad there wasn’t
Christianity is better than Hellenism
The AI did this in one of my games. I was hella confused and they were succesfull too. Poland, austria and hungary completely overran the ottomans and the mameluks used this as an opening to expand too. Pretty cool event tbh
I was playing as burgundy and saw it happen. Was allied to the pope to complete my mission and got map vision of the papacy, austria, poland, and venice stomping on the ottomans
If you ally wallacia and transfer occupation of the ottoman capital to them in a war it causes them to impale the sultan
WAIT WHAT
@@Boretheory it’s part of romanian mission tree AND not only does it kill the ruler but also the heir & consort of the current ruler
@@dravo3871vlad the impaler
Based gigachad Wallachians.
They added a new QOL update you might like:
Hold shift while you select provinces and then change all occupation at once.
Yes. But it will take me a while to remember that.
@@lookasetbellasame, same
I was positively shocked when in my latest Austria campaign the pope asked me to defend the Latin Empire. I was like "Wait What?""
Unfortunately, I was in the middle with a war against Venice at the time, and while I joined the war, by the time I was able to do anything the Latin Empire had basically decided it wasn't going to win, despite the fact that the war ticker was slowly moving in their favor. They ceded a couple territories, and naturally got wiped out in the next war. I was so disappointed.
That troop building and deleting thing is amazing
Mean time to happen of e.g. 12 months doesn't mean event will happen in 12 months, it's just that it has a probability of 50% to happen during first 12 months (in 50 out of 100 simulations it would happen in this timeframe), and 50% after that
Yes i knows this. But I was very unlucky in my test runs. 10 on iron mode and never had this event faster than like in this episode. On normal it always show way faster.
Ooof that war exhaustion was something else.
Real expert. Respect!
Bro just triggered all the byzaboos.
Kinda disappointed that paradox didn't make a proper catholic path, what they did is okay but its very steered as a temporary cheesy option as opposed to a proper path. Constantine was an eastern catholic and did support church unity though the locals didn't like it that much.
There are some more interesting ways missing, such as restoring Hellenism. If the Norse religion can be restored, why not Hellanism?
@lookasetbella history, probably.
Hellenism was probably extinct by the 5th or 6th centuries, and its cultural practices didn't really survive crackdowns by the Christian church authorities. Asatru, the Norse faith, lasted much longer, until the 11th or 12th centuries. Even after the Norse faith was replaced by Christianity, many parts of their original faith were kept, such as poems featuring pre-christian pagan myths and certain pagan rituals that lasted for centuries after the Faith's official decline.
In essence, hellenism is deader than dead and has been for nearly 1000 years at this point in the game. Norse is only half dead and was around a lot more, so a potential revival makes a *little* bit more sense
I just play Byzantium and I could have taken this route I decided not to cause it was my first KoK successful Byzantium, but as always it got cursed in the end anyways xD. Like why every time I play Byzantium Naples gets into a PU with either Spain or France, why The Commonwealth guarantees a 30k strong ottomans? And How on earth Hungary gets Bohemia and Muscovy in a PU one year after the other, why Albania ally the Hungary and the Pope, my allies too, making attacking Venice or a Mamelukes capable to defeat the ottomans my best options to keep expanding. It’s just pain I just rather play the ottomans until I get bored xD
When you were trying to get the tolerance up to restore orthodoxy, couldn't you have used papal influence to grab one of those temporary modifiers? By 24:40 you had 86 papal influence and haven't used any of it :P
Either I don't know something, or I don't know :D I've just entered the game and I don't see any tolerance fo heretics in actions from The Holy See
@@lookasetbellaI think it’s a papal bullwhile Curia Controller
Cool bonobo already did a video like this, in his version, even france, burgundy, england, and Iberians joined in IIRC
In my 10+ test runs it's always the same countries like in this atempt
i knew this i predicted this in the comunity because when i play byzantine and losing pope offer me to become latin empire though the thing is that i joined hre and become emperor and then exploit the byzantine autocarcy so i can get faster reform (i hope they didnt patch this yet) and then while at it proceed to conquer around while managing the empire and by the age of reformation i form hre (even cursed).
How did you join HRE? Did you have borders in Italy?
What is the use of Byzantine autocracy?
It might be an interesting idea for a video.
@@lookasetbella so here basically there are two ways to do this is that you either be a latine empire or stay byzantine but convert yourself to christian by conquering some lands in italy (so basically you either let the christan zealot win or convert it yourself since you have more christian than orthodox region).
@@lookasetbella so the 1st path is the hard path latin empire the problem with this path it just too much rebels going on though you can do it just improve relation qith the elector and the capital is on europe and just weaken austria by humaliating it, scorch their land and eat hungary. And keep improving relation to the elector and hipe to rng they pick you just take diplomatic idea. Once the electors elected you as hre emperor, join the hre add all provinces to hre and then here is byzantine autocracy play its part. When pretender rises up (when you ruler dies) let the pretenders wins (let them win and dont accept their demand) and you get an event where your emperor "dies" an event shows and then gives you imperial authority (i believe its 10 i.a) and then immediately pretender rises over and then let them enforce demand over and over again until you revoke previligia and become hre.
@@lookasetbella or be Byzantium win war against ottomans but dont take too much land (other than that has christian religion) because you might not become christian when you convert yourself make sure to conquer naples and most of his land and make sure not to revoke the union of the church and its up to you, you either yourself convert to Christianity or let the christian zealot convert your land( if you conquer some balkan country that has christian religion) (or just their enforce demand)and that you can stay byzantium while being a christian whilst not suffering too much with the debuff to tolerance and religious unity (with this you can convert back to orthodox easily if you want) but after this take diplomatic idea, improve relation to the electors and ally them, weaken the current emperor and hope to be voted and then become hre emperor and let the byzantine autocarcy do its work let pretenders win (don't accept their demands just let them win) emperor dies, gain 10 i.a, pretendor rises and repeat until you form hre. (You can form hre by either before the reformation or during reformation age depending of your performance) And tadaa you got hre also curse lmao
@@lookasetbella also if yes have borders in italy, have a capital in europe and yes you have one, get elected as the emperor and hope the electors chooses you i mean you can join the hre through improving relation but austria or just weaken him either way works and hope that the electors voted for you. This works on my path either but i choose to weaken austria but ita up to you it depemds of the game you might improvise depending how the game throws. This works in bith path but i will reccomend the byzantine path rather than latin empire.
If you switch back to Byzantium, can you earn the achievements again ?
do you still get all achievements?
I haven't done a Latin Empire run yet, but in my ~5 starts as Byz (trying out the Candar defensive war start) I got the event every time I ended up in the war against them, and I wasn't losing those wars. Nothing in the event says you need to be losing for it to trigger, sometimes it just takes a while. It's probably a lot better to not trash your country at the start to do this. Additionally if you get those claims through the mission tree before or during the war you're going to save a bunch of AE and dip.
The event requirements only state that it should be a defensive war for Byzantium and an offensive war for Ottoman. This approach in the video was the best in 10+ reboots.I don't really understand the trash country statement. I didn't do anything like that. You cannot make claims on Anatolia before retaking your own home territory.
@@lookasetbella The 'Impending doom' first mission gives you claims in anatolia which you can use in the defensve war. Also it gives claims in bulgaria you could use, if you dont want to release bulgaria for reconquest.
The `trash' comment is a bit hyperbolic, but getting full occupied and tons of devastation (while paying for forts) lead to your debt issue. It also means you are just hoping for the event to fire before the ottoman sieges finish. If you just fight the ottomans with a couple allies (I used hungary and poland) while you wait for the pope event to fire you can pretty safely do this with no loans. And the event *will* eventually fire, worst case you just wait in the war for a while.
I was using the strategy from @TheStudent recent byz video for this, with a few tweaks.
Rather, I wanted to go into a quick war here. Previously, I took a few small allies. I was moving the fort. I was abolishing armies, but Osman was attacking me anyway after 4-5 years or eaven 10 years.
But that's how you really approach it and then you won't come out in such a bad state. You're right.
@@fabbyrob
As for the Student channel, I didn't know it before. Is this about a movie from Byzantium? Because I don't see anything Latin Empire.@@fabbyrob
@@lookasetbella I was referencing The Student's Byzantium strategy video (czcams.com/video/QYAxhqAGFWQ/video.htmlsi=GVfJ2XQI_eHA10wB) he does not go Latin Empire in that video (nor does he talk about it that I recall), but because the strategy causes you to be in a defensive war against the Ottomans you are eligible for the event to swap to Latin Empire. Which is how I got the event very consistently.
Could you not have accepted the orthodox rebels demands in order to flip back to orthodox or would that not have the same effect as the event?
No, the only way according to the tooltip is a national decision. You cannot change your faith in any other way.
Lucas just revealed he is polish. I always knew you sounded slavic 😂😂
Lul i never hide this.
well, that was chaotic
i love the videos of rather hidden nations and replicating the "authentic" eu4 experience of savescumming, restarting and fooling around a lot!
You are being unnecessarily ironic.
I thought it was an added value that would show people what would happen if they played with changing their faith and something cool would happen.
Next time I'll just cut it out and not show it, but check it for myself.
@@lookasetbella i was not really ironic though. I love it, seriously :D
OK, maybe i'm too brain dead today@@irgendwassmiley4183
@@lookasetbella don't worry about it. I guess some people will comment similar to me and mean it like U understood. Really appreciate your videos though! Would also like U playing mods like ante bellum tbh. Keep it up :)
This happens in my game, bizantines become catolic, and venecia, austria and france help vs ottomans, bizantine restore all balkans and then austria and poland attack bizantine and destroy thel
No way, another Lucas
Catholics get a special burghers privilege called grant orthodox autonomy. And all tags get a burghers privilege that gives +2 tolerance of heretics and heathens. You couldve just given out those 2 privileges to deal with the religious disunity.
Yes I even show this in the end of episode.
My bad I commented too early
Unnecessarily, I noticed this privilege quite late.
I thought it would be a UNIQUE challenge in which you have to survive with such disadvantages and that is the difficulty. When I then checked privileges for tolerance. Honestly, I was disappointed. It turned out to be super simple.@@sasi5841
The only problem with this method is those anti unionist rebel is keep spawning with very large army. 36.000 x 2 rebels regiments was popping up in my capital. Wtf how i can beat them, i cant even regrow my manpower to expand fuhrer just for this.
Whenever I destroy my military I get invaded by Venice how do I stop this?
have strong allies
I’m playing as France, and Latin empire has appeared, and took many provinces by ottomans
Yes, this happens to me 2-3 times out of 10 games.
In my recent games Byz does this all the timee
Yes, this happens to me 2-3 times out of 10 games.
Can't your form the latin empire somewhat easier as the knights, and make more sense?
Yes you can. I don't know if the Knight Way is easier or not. Both strategies have its own advantages and disadvantages
Ai bizantium in one of my games became the Latinx Empire before dying once
A Sunni Byzantine with Turkish as primary culture
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Catholic Byzantium
I Will say this you Can still die if you become the latin Empire with only hungry and austira you still die you NEED POLAND
and Poland nieed Lithuana :P
First
How can you play with these ugly borders 😂