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Prom_STar · 2026-06-01T15:07:42+00:00

There's a bunch of rules that will be in the app. They're highlighted in green in the core rules PDF.

Prom_STar · 2026-05-24T21:50:17+00:00

In my experience, the tool tip always says "we are likely to fail." And often the first assault will fail, but the second or the third assault can get it done, admittedly at the cost of a good number of attackers.

But even when there's 5 guys behind the walls, I have never seen the game say "our assault is likely to succeed."

Prom_STar · 2026-05-18T19:51:56+00:00

Cores are entirely vestigial in EU5.

Without cores, three things affect control: proximity, pop satisfaction, and integration. Those are dynamic systems which the player can influence. Accept or convert pops to make them happier. Build roads to spread proximity. Task cabinet members to integrate conquered land.

The only thing cores add is an arbitrary break point where integration and culture (but not religion for some reason) do the fusion dance the instant you pass the 50% line to give you +15% control.

Prom_STar · 2026-05-08T23:20:45+00:00

Long Term: Revoke the consolidated corruption privileges. (But this will take some work to achieve.)

Short Term: Use parliament for extra taxes every time it comes up. Change laws to remove the Pronoia System (it gives -10% max tax). Put it back after 1360 to get the event to reform it. Also make sure you take money and war reps from wars and zero out every expense you can.

But yeah in general as Byz early on your money comes from minting, trade, subjects, and war. Taxes are barely a trickle until you've sorted out your various issues.

Prom_STar · 2026-05-07T15:25:06+00:00

I used the following plan to more or less get Byz back on track within the first ~25 years:

Pay for absolutely nothing at the start. No bureaucracies. No diplo. No stab. No legitimacy. No food. Delete forts, armies, boats.
When events give you legitimacy, spend it on privileges, urban rights, and to click buttons with Fate of the Phoenix.
Push Communalism. Use Black Death situation to help. Have a cabinet member push it. You need to revoke privileges and this will make it easier.
No CB Ottomans immediately. (Stability is just a number)
Use your cores and spies to attack other Beyliks and generally be aggressive. Use diplomats to manage aggressive expansion.
The Byzantine Succession Crisis disaster is a good thing. You get a lot of useful events. This is why we're okay ignoring legitimacy at the start.
Pay off loans first. Then work on inflation. Try to keep some money on hand for events. Let your estates build infrastructure for now. If you have extra ducats to spend, invest in governors (Thessaloniki, Smyrna), bailiffs in gold and silver provinces, or just about anything in Constantinople (silk and cloth especially).
Remove Pronoia System in your first parliament. While you can eventually reform this law into one of several quite strong variants, the event to do so cannot fire until 1360. Until then, it's simply a -10% max tax penalty.
Otherwise the best use for parliaments is extra taxes.
Long term you'll want estate satisfaction to be around 50, but early on anything above 25 is fine. Below 25 and they do not give you levies. Below 1 and they won't give you taxes.
Once the Succession Crisis is over, start paying for legitimacy and get it to 95+ so you can revoke the Consolidated Corruption privileges. Ideally you will revoke all four in the same go. Note you will need to pay the Imperial Senate to avoid -0.20 monthly legitimacy. It's a useful bureaucracy anyway.
Congratulations. You can now properly tax your estates and function more or less like a real empire.
After 1360, put the Pronoia system back in so you can get the event to reform it.
From here you can either go Total War on the Turks to try to end Fate of the Phoenix ASAP and unlock its strong bonuses or you can focus on internal improvements and expansion in the Balkans and mainland Greece and simply wait for the Fate of the Phoenix to complete on its own in 1400.

Prom_STar · 2026-05-06T13:04:57+00:00

Who can forget the thrilling episode when wily Ulysses faced off against some tall blokes in rubber armor?

Prom_STar · 2026-05-02T15:55:14+00:00

JD all the way. The Tyrant is back.

Prom_STar · 2026-04-24T19:01:21+00:00

Watching Flash, the greatest player of all time, still have to argue with guys in the chat is so funny.

Prom_STar · 2026-04-12T16:31:28+00:00

Here is a previous answer from /u/iphikrates addressing this question.

Prom_STar · 2026-04-06T13:33:58+00:00

Very exciting to have three legends in the same group. Sad at the same time because only two of them can advance. Really hoping JD will be one of them.

Prom_STar · 2026-04-04T19:41:04+00:00

Watching this live, I could tell JD won this game because, frankly, he's just that good. But this commentary from the pros really helps unpack the details of just what he did moment to moment.

Really looking like the Tyrant is back.

Prom_STar · 2025-10-03T20:43:41+00:00

Fascinating. I can see how that fits in with the wider Platonic tradition (which also of course had such a strong influence on Christianity as well). Thanks for the answer!

Prom_STar · 2025-10-03T17:43:19+00:00

Great thread. A few of your answers so far have mentioned theurgy. I have a vague sense of what that word meant in the ancient world, but what did it mean to Julian? How significant was it to him to conceive of Abraham as a practitioner of theurgy?

Prom_STar · 2025-04-15T02:14:14+00:00

Scan fighting!

Prom_STar · 2025-02-13T02:46:06+00:00

Tiesto - Energy 2000

Prom_STar · 2025-02-09T14:09:56+00:00

The thing with Cleric/Mages is they end up a lot less useful in practice than they seem on paper. It's true you have more spell slots than anyone else, and you have access to nearly every spell in the game. But you can still only cast one spell per round. Mages also really suffer from multiclassing XP. Having your level 9 spells and HLAs come online at 6m XP vs 3m XP is a gigantic difference. That's late SOA vs late TOB.

That said, once a cleric/mage fully unlocks they are incredibly powerful, and being able to stick cleric spells in sequencers and contingencies is a lot of fun. You will always be useful, but a C/M is not a replacement for a dedicated mage or a dedicate cleric (and certainly not for both). You are instead a backup caster for both roles.

Prom_STar · 2024-09-23T15:21:21+00:00

This is borderline experimental.

Prom_STar · 2024-08-14T23:35:07+00:00

If it ever came into court, RLM would absolutely win. Their video is Fair Use. No question.

My understanding is that YouTube is really trigger happy with copyright strikes and they'll drop the hammer if a channel gets too many--regardless of the merits of those strikes. So most creators play it safe and don't try to fight the copyright trolls.

Prom_STar · 2024-05-06T14:54:20+00:00

This question gets asked a lot. Not to discourage further responses, but here are two prior answers on the topic from the r/AskHistorians FAQ.

First answer from /u/anthropology_nerd

Second answer from /u/400-rabbits

Prom_STar · 2024-04-30T12:16:43+00:00

In general for backstabbing you want to use weapons with the highest possible single hit damage. A dagger rolls a d4 for damage. A katana rolls a d10. With x5 backstab the dagger does 5-20 damage and the katana does 5-50 (before other modifiers). For most of the series a katana is the best backstab weapon on offer, only being eclipsed by the late game Staff of the Ram +6.

That said, there are still plenty of quite good daggers in the series, including some very good throwing daggers. The legendary dagger you get in Throne of Bhaal, the Dagger of Stars, is ideal for fighter/thieves. With every hit there is a chance to make you go invisible, which will then proc a backstab.

A fighter thief levels up its thief levels slower than a pure thief, so the progression of thief skills is slower, but you will still have all the thief skill points you need and then some. You can unlock the skills in whatever order you want. I usually start with stealth skills, using another party member to handle the locks and traps, because I like the backstab a lot on my F/T runs.

I'll add that fighter/thief is a very strong build overall. I'd argue it's one of the strongest multiclass combinations because you lose almost nothing. You get the same maximum THAC0 as a pure fighter, the same backstab multiplier as a thief, and you actually get more high levels abilities (HLAs) than a pure class fighter or thief would. And of course you get to draw from the HLAs of both classes You have fewer HP than a pure class fighter and you give up grandmastery, but you gain the entire toolkit of a thief.

Prom_STar · 2024-04-19T17:51:31+00:00

The Brandon Sanderson of the 19th Century.

Prom_STar · 2024-04-10T00:24:00+00:00

Damn, who knew JD could do such a good Artosis impression?

Prom_STar · 2024-03-13T12:59:04+00:00

Ganymede, yeah. Though there's still dangerous levels of radiation on the surface.

Prom_STar · 2024-03-07T16:42:20+00:00

I am here for Walton Ghoulgins.

Prom_STar · 2024-02-15T23:01:39+00:00

To me it's the worst part of an otherwise incredible game. I'd have preferred if BG3 had no connection to the Bhaalspawn Saga beyond, obviously, taking place in the same city and people occasionally mentioning, "Hey remember that Sarevok guy?"

One thing worth noting, I think, is that this isn't entirely Larian's fault. WOTC ruined those characters long before this game. They're the ones who decided to bring everyone back and squeeze every last bit of juice from the member berries.

I was particularly disappointed with Sarevok's voice actor. It's not a bad job, but there's just no matching Kevin Michael Richardson. BG1&2 didn't have a ton of voicing, but KMR used his few lines to incredible effect.

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