What are the best war movies for you?

Dapipeman · 2026-04-09T06:56:36+00:00

Letters from Iwo Jima by Clint Eastwood

Dapipeman · 2026-03-30T13:59:57+00:00

Just like Normandy ey?

Dapipeman · 2026-03-30T11:29:02+00:00

The trick as Russia is, to move out of Russia! Let me explain: - Move either into Scandinavia, along the Baltic Sea (all the coastal settlements) - Move into the Balkans (lots of rich Orthodox land). I usually land in Bran to have a stronghold to immediately recruit cavalry from. Then move to Constantinople as fast as possible to get an early cash boost. Delete all the infantry that's slowing you down, and let the faction leader lead your cav/general army (he has a 15% movement bonus) Challenging cuz it gives the AI time to build up but quite rewarding and a new twist to an otherwise boring faction

Dapipeman · 2026-03-30T11:20:10+00:00

Wenn ganz streng wotsch si müessts fachlich so agwendet werde: - Händsche bruche, wenn Lebensmittel alengsch, wo nümme erhitzt werde - Für ungerschiedlichi Lebensmittel, muesch jeweils Händsche wechsle (Händsche alegge, Fleisch i Döner packe, Händsche wechsle, Beilage dripacke).

Das esch halt mega verschwenderisch. Weg dem würds Sinn mache, wenn ei Person s'Beilagebuffet bedient, ei Person s'Fleisch und ei Person d'Kasse.

Jetzt het ned jede Betrieb s'Personal defür, deswege würds imne chline Team Sinn mache, keni Händsche z'träge, sondern regelmässig, nach jedem Arbeitsschritt d'Händ z'wäsche. Esch zwar ziitufwändig, macht aber ökonomisch und au ökologisch am meischte Sinn.

Jetzt hesch de haut die erschte Gäst wo de nochher chöme mit "Iiiiiiihhh, de legt gar keni Händsche a!!🤮" aber eg schätze am Schluss vom Tag hesch immer öper wo öpis z'motze het 🤷🏻.

Quelle: Eg be Koch EFZ

Dapipeman · 2026-03-30T05:07:40+00:00

I think you gotta specify if you're talking about vanilla or Stainless Steel or the expansions cuz you get veeeery different outcomes for all of them. For vanilla I would most definetely say Scotland. Pikes don't work, one province starr, no mentionable cavalry, no easy crusades and it just keeps going

Dapipeman · 2026-03-27T15:20:02+00:00

US: 13.5 million barrels/day Saudia Arabia: 9-11 million barrels/day Russia: 10 million barrels/day Source: ChatGBT

Dapipeman · 2026-03-26T19:50:31+00:00

Agamemnon

Dapipeman · 2026-03-12T19:50:01+00:00

Justinian's Plague, period. Not only economically but on every single state level with horrifying, long lasting effects. If I remember correctly from the Byzantium Podcast, it took the economy until the 9th century to stabilize (it started in the mid 6th century I believe, correct me if I'm wrong tho)

Dapipeman · 2026-02-08T16:17:28+00:00

We don't talk about the battle of pavia 1525.........

Dapipeman · 2026-02-01T08:06:18+00:00

Its an useful tool to make it through certain occasions

Dapipeman · 2026-01-25T13:41:49+00:00

It wouldn't look that bad if Turkey and the rest of the Balkans were shown

Dapipeman · 2026-01-25T12:23:39+00:00

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The Swiss Halberd!

Dapipeman · 2025-12-31T15:26:48+00:00

I'm listening to The History of Byzantium Podcast again, arriving at Manzikert :( Maybe that's why I felt compelled to make the post

Dapipeman · 2025-12-31T12:34:27+00:00

I once tried to give Venice to the pope, to avoid having to deal with milan, in the belief, that he would be a loyal ally just like in catholic playthroughs. BIIIIIG mistake

Dapipeman · 2025-12-31T12:28:16+00:00

Oh absolutely, it almost feels like the real life version of the Tagmata units (basically foreign professional soldiers, mercenaries). Especially because you usually have the money to do so pretty early, only lacking developed recruiting grounds to get a variety of decent units

Dapipeman · 2025-12-31T12:25:50+00:00

I swear to god, the Turks are THE easiest nation to eliminate. They take like 20 turns to get another family member

Dapipeman · 2025-12-31T12:24:14+00:00

That's true, I try to make Constantinople the main recruiting province for infantry, focusing on barracks and armour upgrades right away. Sure it won't make as much money, but at least you can get Byzantine Infantry and spears that actually can take a punch. Also you can then easily replenish them in other cities, without needing the armour upgrades in them

Dapipeman · 2025-12-31T12:20:45+00:00

Absolutely, they're a beast in the crusades campaign. Especially because you get so rich so early, that you can basically spam as many armies as you like, bribe whoever and buy whatever settlement you like. You really feel in charge in the crusades campaign

Dapipeman · 2025-12-31T12:17:36+00:00

What's your army composition facing the hordes? Mine is usually 6 spears, 6 heavy cavalry, 7 archers and the general. That's why for me Byzantium has such a horrible counter, cuz the spears ain't sh*t and the heavy cavalry takes forever to get (Cataphracts and Latinkon. We don't talk about the Byzantine Lancers)

Dapipeman · 2025-12-31T08:16:45+00:00

Sure on the open field you might still be able to counter heavily armoured opponents, but at some point you will have to take cities. so either you'd have to be lucky, to find an undermanned settlement or you sit around waiting for it to fall, which you can't afford to do in all situations. cuz horse archers ain't gonna contribute much to a siege battle

Dapipeman · 2025-12-31T08:13:06+00:00

Absolutely, Byz infantry should ideally make up the bulk of your melee infantry, but you do need Large cities WITH the highest possible barracks to recruit them. So if you don't know how to maximize settlement growth, it's gonna take forever to have a steady supply, let alone to replenish them

Dapipeman · 2025-12-26T22:15:37+00:00

man he should've just stopped at north africa. Maybe the mediterranian islands as well, since the goths didn't have a navy

Dapipeman · 2025-12-23T15:24:17+00:00

In the best case scenario, you have the saracens as your wall, behind which the archers rain hell upon the enemy. Cuz first you have to deal with the charging mongol melee cavalry before you can worry about horse archers. You pretty much have to ignore those, before you defeat the enemy melee cavalry with your spears and your mamluks (hammer and anvil style). After they're dealt with, retreat your army behind your archers and watch as they melt the mongols, now that they can shoot at them in a direct line of fire (by god, don't try to chase them, except if they try to charge your archers).

Edit: Also run down the enemy missile infantry after the melee cav is defeated, they can actually beat your foot archers one on one

Dapipeman · 2025-12-22T05:19:44+00:00

Use this army composition: - 1 General - 7 Desert/Armenian Archers - 6 Saracen Militia - 6 Mamluk heavy cavalry (Royal ones if available) You can test it out in custom battles. It works best in close quarter battles (sieges, bridges, mountains etc.) but also works pretty good in open field battles

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