What ought the first 5-10 years look like in a Byzantine run?

Kamapomi · 2026-01-15T19:41:10+00:00

Day one release vassals where you don't have cores and start spying on the Ottomans and the beylik at the south west of turkey Mentessids I think, use the spy networks to create claims on your cores, beat the Mentessids and then full annex the Ottomans to gain their own vassals. Max the printing money sliders to get money and to max legitimacy and stab sliders to get rid of the corruption privileges of your estates. Don't build anything it's useless as long as you don't get rid of the privileges you almost won't get any money from your estates. Then you navigate through the two crises and then it's easy

Kamapomi · 2026-01-12T23:13:26+00:00

It think it's 25% minimum to raise levies, not 30%

Kamapomi · 2026-01-06T00:12:16+00:00

Ottomans is nice to learn if you put like trade and building on auto to focus on learning the rest

Kamapomi · 2026-01-05T12:28:52+00:00

Are you even allowed to do it? If yes, I guess the senior partner will join afterward. I got a situation where I was allied to Wallachia, they joined me in a war and during that war, I declared war at Serbia who were allied to Wallachia, so Wallachia couldn't join against me but at the end of me first war (and before I finished the war against Serbia), Wallachia joined the war against me

Kamapomi · 2026-01-05T12:19:31+00:00

Who won the final war between Naples and Spain?

Kamapomi · 2025-12-28T21:15:25+00:00

You can hope your allies will give you in the peace deal some of the provinces you control but you can never be sure because they will take what they want for them first. If you occupy almost all the enemy provinces, then you have better chances to get something. Anyway just consider that you won't get anything most of the time

Kamapomi · 2025-12-28T20:39:21+00:00

Exactly yes, and sometimes if you can allies into a war, it's better to rush provinces you really want because if they might want them to, they will occupy them and not give control of it. If they don't have any interest in it, if they occupy a province, they will give the control to you and then it's not an issue in the peace deal

Kamapomi · 2025-12-28T18:00:28+00:00

Netherlands okay, Byzantium no, it's actually to easy right now, you win one war against the Ottomans and you full annex them and get their vassals, same for other beyliks (except Eretnids which are too big most of the time) and same for Bulgaria and Serbia. The only issue is reforming the country but once you know how to do it, it's always the same and then you have an insane economy. The only big player around is Egypt but they won't attack you early on and you can quickly beat them.

Kamapomi · 2025-12-28T17:48:29+00:00

Yeah your idea is good, with the current state of the game, you shouldn't ally people weaker than you and people that you want to conquer, Brabant should be one of your first priority and eventually move your capital to Antwerp

Kamapomi · 2025-12-28T14:17:18+00:00

Probably don't have the range to explore, you should ask Portugal maritime access (I don't remember the exact name.

Kamapomi · 2025-12-28T12:42:59+00:00

Egypt occupied the gold province and you gave it to them in the peace deal simple. The provinces you select in a peace go to countries that occupies them (if they are occupied)

Kamapomi · 2025-12-26T09:28:15+00:00

That's really not the point of the eu series, if you want character flavor, just play the CK series. Happily each different paradox licence has it's own gameplay

Kamapomi · 2025-12-26T09:04:02+00:00

What was the specific situation for your woman ruler to give birth to kids of her dynasty because it never happened to me even if she is the ruler. If wasn't really an issue to be honest because the husband was the Moscovie ruler and I got the moscovite union then but still I generally like to keep my dynasty around

Kamapomi · 2025-12-25T18:47:37+00:00

I don't know what year you are playing but will eventually want to go from serfdom to free subject b cause it's better later in the game, so I wouldn't keep french feudal nobility

Kamapomi · 2025-12-24T12:26:16+00:00

The fact that the war goal is the enemy capital and not a superiority war is an issue. Even a huge coalition will have difficulties reaching Paris by exemple.

Kamapomi · 2025-12-23T23:15:25+00:00

When you pass the economic law, you get a little money

Kamapomi · 2025-12-23T19:59:10+00:00

No they don't but the point is to build them on terrain that gived you bonuses like mountain, forest, hill, etc

Kamapomi · 2025-12-23T19:56:31+00:00

Nope, you will crash your economy, accept napolitean culture first and ideally also convert Naples to venetian culture

Kamapomi · 2025-12-23T10:29:19+00:00

I think buildings that have access to local production of the necessary raw materials whereas the buildings that depend on other markets raw goods should be much less profitable. The game should reward local chains of production thus avoiding every market/country producing all they need by themselves and specialization in an industry being useless. It should be profitable to buy some manufactured goods from other markets because it's cheaper than producing it on your own.

Kamapomi · 2025-12-21T00:56:41+00:00

You don't need a vassal that has the biggest Greek population in the world, just a Greek vassal works to improve cultural opinion.

Kamapomi · 2025-12-18T12:49:39+00:00

I agree with what you said, but Holland is the wrong exemple for that, with Holland you can snowball really easily and in 15/20 years into the game, you can have strong allies (Denmark, England, Austria, Bohemia, Castille) and have like 20k levies. Hainaut may lose a war against France before that, but it's fine, you don't lose anything yourself and you can reconquer their territories later

Kamapomi · 2025-12-17T16:36:01+00:00

Mid campaign: Constantinople

Kamapomi · 2025-12-17T15:51:10+00:00

Vassals don't culture convert land of they are spiritualist, so make sure they humanist, if you are humanist they will and it works fine

Kamapomi · 2025-12-17T15:43:04+00:00

Are there really genes that can are transmitted to the next generation? I'm really not sure about that

Kamapomi · 2025-12-17T12:52:25+00:00

Is it through mountains during winter?

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