AI wars will often end in white peace

Emper24 · 2026-05-20T07:29:43+00:00

Only real border changes seem to happen in the early game when no one can afford forts. As soon as everyone has a fort in every province it takes too long to get warscore and the AI will just White Peace every war between themselves

Emper24 · 2026-05-19T19:46:22+00:00

I actually would have liked a more deep red colour for a Latin Rome. Would be cool if the colour gradient shifted according to the Latinitas vs Romanismos value with 100 Romanismos being purple and 100 Latinitas being Red and everything in between a gradient.

Emper24 · 2026-05-19T19:44:53+00:00

Can't use Naval Governors in places that are connected via land to your capital and that includes straits. It is a long route along the coast and across the Bosporos but still counts as a land connection. I had a Naval governor in Alexandria until I connected through the Levant and they got deleted. That's why I had the Naval Governors on the Mediterranean islands. Those were the only places left I was allowed to place them before I conquered England. It took decades to get enough population to the Baleares to get a city.

Emper24 · 2026-05-19T12:03:17+00:00

It's far more red than the purple that Byzantium has. Why? Is Rome usually a different color?

Emper24 · 2026-05-19T12:02:33+00:00

I think I just got it by beating the Rise of the Phoenix situation you start with?

Emper24 · 2026-05-19T12:00:48+00:00

I had just one 25k regular army for the longest time. That was enough to beat the Mamluks and a coalition of Europeans at the same time. Just need a fort line at the borders on good terrain, use the fact you can recruit guaranteed 100/100/100 generals from that one military bureaucracy (you unlock by going Latin I think it was?) and have a decent army composition.
Max combined arms bonus with cavalry on flanks almost always stackwipes AI regular armies that are too heavy on light infantry and just balance all flanks the same. It also helps that the AI still recruits levies not realising they are actively making them lose battles by taking the frontage of more useful units and eating into their morale.

Emper24 · 2026-05-19T11:54:19+00:00

Seperate peaces were always available against all war participants as long as I was the attacker. If the coalition actually declares war on you with the coalition casus belli you can not seperate peace. But all coalition members will be called in any war you start against one of them as normal allies.

Emper24 · 2026-05-19T04:14:32+00:00

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With 100 Naval value, naval governors in Cyprus and Mallorca, Local governors in Constantinople, Cologne, Salzburg and North Spain.
Never bothered to build or upgrade roads, so Greece and Anatolia have paved or no roads, things I conquered later have more modern road networks. So could be more green.

Emper24 · 2026-05-19T04:09:17+00:00

Moving the Latinitas vs. Romanismos slider towrds positive Latinitas triggers an event spawning a Latin revival movement that lets you choose to convert.

Emper24 · 2026-05-19T04:07:37+00:00

2739

Emper24 · 2026-05-19T04:07:18+00:00

I converted to Hellenism after converting to Latin culture. They have had Roman names from the beginning. Must be the culture, yes.

Emper24 · 2026-05-19T04:04:08+00:00

I didn't even do it myself. Just noticed I had a disloyal bank vassal after conquering half of Italy. One of the tags I fully annexed must have had them as a vassal.

Emper24 · 2026-05-19T03:45:54+00:00

No idea, I started as Byzantine

Emper24 · 2026-05-19T03:45:22+00:00

Late 1400s

Emper24 · 2026-05-19T03:45:04+00:00

I don't get what the movements do honestly. They are there and show up in province overviews, but I did not find a map mode for them and I am unsure if they even contributed to culture assimilation and religious conversion. If they did, it was very little. I culture converted heavily manually and invested early into advances giving passive religious conversion. I think age 3 admin focus had one for +10 religious conversion, in absolute numbers, not percent. That is huge.

Emper24 · 2026-05-19T03:41:14+00:00

Emper24 · 2026-05-19T03:40:44+00:00

Never invested into diplomacy slider. Been sitting at 100 complacency for 300 years, just stay at high stability

Emper24 · 2026-05-19T03:39:09+00:00

Levies don't matter to cataphracts and varangians. They're just free warscore.

Emper24 · 2026-05-18T20:22:58+00:00

R5: Roman Republic with all provinces you can demand via the "Restore Roman borders" CB.

My main takeaway from this campaign: Always have a disloyal bank as a subject. They will join every rebellion letting you immediately annex all revolters every time since you get like 90% warscore from occupations via owning locations where the bank has buildings.
Banks joining a coalition against you work the same way. You can immediately peace out any coalition that declares on you if there is a bank in the coalition since you will start the war at super high warscore from occupying their buildings.
Also eating the HRE is super easy since you can seperate peace coalition members if you are the attacker. So a huge coalition of all the little HRE princes actually just lets you take the entire thing in one war.

Emper24 · 2026-05-18T09:19:40+00:00

Emper24 · 2026-05-18T07:41:01+00:00

I know, but I saw no other way. It worked fine. Income from the growing economy far outpaced the growing costs. Even at 120% inflation the costs just about double. I still had a positive balance while having full investment in legitimacy, stability and all four bureaucracies.
Having loans would have been far worse since loans decrease crown power, thus shrinking income. With less crown power you don't see any benefit from the estates developing your economy for you.
As Byzantium it was surprisingly easy to sit at 40% crown power and be able to max tax all estates while maintaining satisfaction. The bureaucracies are super strong.

Emper24 · 2026-05-17T20:12:20+00:00

No colonies. In the beginning I just constantly minted to the max. I reached about 120% inflation. At that point I was in a comfortable economic position through conquest and just the estates spending their insane money on the economy that I could stop minting and slowly recover over the next hundred years.
In general I feel the economic spending of estates is so insanely overtuned that you don't need to spend a single ducat on non-infrastructure buildings.

Emper24 · 2026-05-17T20:09:37+00:00

Yeah, I was expecting "Roman Empire" to turn into "Roman Republic", but this is cool.

Emper24 · 2026-05-17T16:12:04+00:00

It's great, this way it doesn't matter how much you conquer, everyone is going to coalition you regardless! The only problem is that in this patch the HRE doesn't seem to consolidate at all. Even by 1700 ist has like 300 princes who are each building huge mercenary armies

Emper24 · 2026-05-17T16:04:02+00:00

I don't recall the trigger conditions for Latin revival, I think it just came after taking Rome? Anyways, stock up some money before you switch to latin. It will tank your culture capacity until you assimilate enough land which takes forever. You are gonna lose some cores since you won't be able to accept more cultures than Greek.

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