Fastest possible Byzantine restoration?
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Hey everyone, thanks for your suggestions. This is what I did:
let the ottomans chase the the pretenders in the Balkans, then close the strait. I then slapped them around with the help of the rebels, and my allies Serbians and Wallachians. Did the same thing with the second stack and occupied all of their European holdings. I then proceeded into the Asia Minor to occupy the rest of their holdings. I was lucky enough to have Naples massacre the remaining armies for me. After that I just annexed. In a year or so I picked up all of my other Anatolian cores and restored the Themes System.
Now I have a couple of questions: what is the best way to reclaim my cores from Greek minors with out getting into war with half of Europe? Should I create my own CoT? Is going for India for its resources a good idea? Mercantilism or Free trade?
let the ottomans chase the the pretenders in the Balkans, then close the strait. I then slapped them around with the help of the rebels, and my allies Serbians and Wallachians. Did the same thing with the second stack and occupied all of their European holdings. I then proceeded into the Asia Minor to occupy the rest of their holdings. I was lucky enough to have Naples massacre the remaining armies for me. After that I just annexed. In a year or so I picked up all of my other Anatolian cores and restored the Themes System.
Now I have a couple of questions: what is the best way to reclaim my cores from Greek minors with out getting into war with half of Europe? Should I create my own CoT? Is going for India for its resources a good idea? Mercantilism or Free trade?
If you start in 1405, you can completely annex the ottomans in a single go actually.
Usually I'd go for Epirus when Naples attacks them (they lose their guarantee, no allies) and leave 1,000 troops to siege THEN go for the Ottomans.
Try with the Death and Taxes mod. No more blocking the straights while you handle Ottoman Europe.
When I played Byzantium in Death & Taxes, I used the Liberum Veto and Orthodox allies to defeat the Ottomans and drive the Catholics out of Greece.
In my current Byz game (normal difficulty, 1399 start), which I need advice on and will post another thread soon, it is 1503 and I have taken all the cores back, own all of southern Russia from Cherson to Sarai/Astrakhan and north to Tenbow/Kharkov. Asia Minor, the East med coast and Egypt are all mine except for Gaza (haven't bothered yet). All the Caucasus/Armenia area is mine except 2 province Georgia. I am in the middle of a massive war with the Jailiarads who own the almost the entire Arabian peninsula, half Persia and all Mesopotamia and Damascus. Venice (1 province), Serbia (2 provinces), Wallachia (2 provinces) and Ukraine (8 provinces) are all allied vassals. I had to wait until well into the 1440s before I could take the Ottoman provinces. The Timurids were eviscerated by the Mamelukes so couldn't hurt the Ottos. I took the Turkish minors and then spent the next 20 years being attacked by Qara and Algiers, yes Algiers. Eventually the Ottos made a mistake and took Silistria giving them a border with the horde. A quick GH invasion and I took my shot annexing 5 asia minor provinces and it was off to the races. The thing with the Byz is that you need to wait for an opportunity and be prepared when it happens. Pushing too early just gets you dead.
But if you start in 1405 theres is many achievements you cant complete if you are in to achies. Because many of them require a 1399 GC start.