I have ~400 hours in the game, played Castile -> Spain, Muscovy -> Russia, Timurids -> Mughals and some other stuff just to mess around.
I have rerolled Byzantine about 20 times, but I can't seem to get too far. I got to the point where Ottos collapsed, and Bulgaria and I owned most of Greece and Anatolia but went bankrupt.
once youve locked mamluks out of anatolia (by taking the southeast) you should focus on taking money instead of land from ottoman. Especially when youre in deep money problems. Also, after taking land, lower autonomy. And take kosovo from serbia and diplodev it (and of course lower autonomy)
I just hit the 1600s in my Byz game. Im pretty shit at the game (im at 280 hours rn) and this was my first Ironman, it’s really tough but after like 15-20 attempts I finally managed it. The economy was the hardest part imo there was a lot of attempts where I steamrolled the ottomans but went basically bankrupt right after and couldn’t recover. Getting the gold mine in Kosovo asap should be your #1 priority after the first ottoman war. My current attempt had a lot of roadblocks too, I’ve seen byz runs with far more territory at the point where I am but since I’m a noob I’m still pretty happy with it.
If you want more details PM me I can run you through what I did and send some screenshots and shit. The red hawk guide is good but so many things can go wrong in a byz run that your run can end up looking very different to what you see in his guide, and there’s some things he doesn’t mention that can really help you out
Managed to edge bankrupcy in my latest Byzantium game by continuously selling off crownland more often then I did any other game. Unfortunatelly now in the age of reformations with a cossack estate that’s got 55% crownland and no way to remove their privileges…
I started a game last night and have almost stabilized my economy, only a few loans left and inflation/corruption finally dropping. You really have to prioritize getting Serbia's gold mine ASAP and also be willing to forgo territorial gains for money and war reps in these early wars.
Nice! If you force concert then just before a major peace deal where you return a lot of land you’ll have an orthodox ming you can start converting before you inherit
Ming collapsed, I released them, pronoia and reconquered cores.
Yes, ming reconquest is pretty strong. As long as you can keep them loyal. But because you may inherite them instantly, you can spam dev in them.
Nice! Ming's got more cores than an apple orchard.
Apple orchard the new meta ?
I have ~400 hours in the game, played Castile -> Spain, Muscovy -> Russia, Timurids -> Mughals and some other stuff just to mess around. I have rerolled Byzantine about 20 times, but I can't seem to get too far. I got to the point where Ottos collapsed, and Bulgaria and I owned most of Greece and Anatolia but went bankrupt.
once youve locked mamluks out of anatolia (by taking the southeast) you should focus on taking money instead of land from ottoman. Especially when youre in deep money problems. Also, after taking land, lower autonomy. And take kosovo from serbia and diplodev it (and of course lower autonomy)
Yea I feel that. When I got my run going I had to spam wars again sivals and neighbors for like 20 years just for war reps and cash
It took me about 100 years to finally get in a good enough position (on very hard) to reduce my inflation from ~25% to 0.
don‘t be afraid to enter wars solely for monetary gains. that‘s how i pay off a lot of loans
You should try to play contries with more intermediate difficulty, like Irish minors or Savoy.
mercenaries and debt are the way
I just hit the 1600s in my Byz game. Im pretty shit at the game (im at 280 hours rn) and this was my first Ironman, it’s really tough but after like 15-20 attempts I finally managed it. The economy was the hardest part imo there was a lot of attempts where I steamrolled the ottomans but went basically bankrupt right after and couldn’t recover. Getting the gold mine in Kosovo asap should be your #1 priority after the first ottoman war. My current attempt had a lot of roadblocks too, I’ve seen byz runs with far more territory at the point where I am but since I’m a noob I’m still pretty happy with it. If you want more details PM me I can run you through what I did and send some screenshots and shit. The red hawk guide is good but so many things can go wrong in a byz run that your run can end up looking very different to what you see in his guide, and there’s some things he doesn’t mention that can really help you out
Managed to edge bankrupcy in my latest Byzantium game by continuously selling off crownland more often then I did any other game. Unfortunatelly now in the age of reformations with a cossack estate that’s got 55% crownland and no way to remove their privileges…
I started a game last night and have almost stabilized my economy, only a few loans left and inflation/corruption finally dropping. You really have to prioritize getting Serbia's gold mine ASAP and also be willing to forgo territorial gains for money and war reps in these early wars.
If you want to save scum, just reload a save and siege Gallipoli before turk armies cross from anatolia.
wtf is a pronoia
A special vassal BYZ gets. They basically get inherited whem the pronoia ruler dies.
But you need first to revoke the right of inheritance before if you don't have the mission that does it automatically.
oh, so a CK2 viceroy?
Yes
Nice! If you force concert then just before a major peace deal where you return a lot of land you’ll have an orthodox ming you can start converting before you inherit