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You're on vacation, but you're back here posting about what you would have been doing if you weren't on vacation? And you're going to "sadly" be on vacation at that? I'm not sure if you and I share the same definition of vacation... :blink:
Enjoy yourself.
I love my work, but I also like to get away from it every once in a while. Vacation for me is reading these forums in the evening with a glass of wine in my hand and making a casual post here and there.
More importantly, I love you all.
Two weeks to be exact, which I'll be dumping on the YouTubes over my vacation. : )
I would love to really follow your game but since there has been zero updates in youtube for weeks I have to drop this. Your promotion is half useless if you are so damn slow of updating it.
You can watch it on twitch---including old episodes. You have to be aware that there haven't been any broadcasting for the last few weeks, because A Spec has been on holiday.
Can anyone explain how Lithuania became the Byzantine Empire? Or was that just flavor.
Thanks!
Thanks!
I'll gladly share the details.
First, there are two things you need to be if you want to recreate the empire. You need to be Orthodox. I fixed that by dealing with Muscovy, having them force religion in a peace deal. Besides, I start with most of my provinces as Orthodox anyway, and the bonuses are nice. Then you need to have Greek as primary culture. This one was more difficult. But since Lithuania starts with several cultures, none of them being of more than eight provinces, I all needed to conquer was nine Greek provinces (since the culture need to be of a majority if you want to shift culture). Thus, I focused my expansion by taking provinces from Crimea (Tartar culture), taking no more than eight provinces, along with Kaffa (starts as Greek). Then I conquered Greece itself, giving me enough provinces.
When I waged war against the Ottomans, I took all the provinces in the Greece region in one go. Though I had some minor rebels trying of getting in my way (326% overextension hurts!), this allowed me to change culture and become the Byzantine Empire almost straight away. Since you need to own every province in Greece to be able to use the decision, on both sides of the Aegean. And the empire was born anew.
I'll gladly share the details.
First, there are two things you need to be if you want to recreate the empire. You need to be Orthodox. I fixed that by dealing with Muscovy, having them force religion in a peace deal. Besides, I start with most of my provinces as Orthodox anyway, and the bonuses are nice. Then you need to have Greek as primary culture. This one was more difficult. But since Lithuania starts with several cultures, none of them being of more than eight provinces, I all needed to conquer was nine Greek provinces (since the culture need to be of a majority if you want to shift culture). Thus, I focused my expansion by taking provinces from Crimea (Tartar culture), taking no more than eight provinces, along with Kaffa (starts as Greek). Then I conquered Greece itself, giving me enough provinces.
When I waged war against the Ottomans, I took all the provinces in the Greece region in one go. Though I had some minor rebels trying of getting in my way (326% overextension hurts!), this allowed me to change culture and become the Byzantine Empire almost straight away. Since you need to own every province in Greece to be able to use the decision, on both sides of the Aegean. And the empire was born anew.
Wow that is incredibly cool. I've tried Byzantium a few times which usually ends up as a fiery mess. I like the idea of restoring it from a larger country.
Does this decision show up on the decision list? Or can any country do it provided they follow the similar steps above.
Considering a popular way to play the RE is to take the Ottomans convert to orthodoxy and reform the RE, I would guess all countries can do it.Wow that is incredibly cool. I've tried Byzantium a few times which usually ends up as a fiery mess. I like the idea of restoring it from a larger country.
Does this decision show up on the decision list? Or can any country do it provided they follow the similar steps above.
No, some are specifically barred from doing it, including the Ottomans but also formables like HRE can't form Byzantium.
It's also a terrible idea if you're still in the Nomad tech group, as you'll get switched out of horde govt but stay Nomad, meaning you'll never get better units lol. I guess you could westernize without reforming though.
I don't know how I could forget the HRE being barred from forming any other nations. I just looked in the files and only the HRE and the Ottomans cannot form the RE; every other nation can. I don't know why people then have talked about using the Ottomans to play the RE, although perhaps they just released them and continued playing as them; it definitely makes sense in some way that the Ottomans cannot create the RE---but considering they did claim to be the continuation of the RE it perhaps would make sense to allow them to reform it after all.
The Ottoman ban has been introduced later on and wasn't around at game launch. Those are probably the mentions you find flying around.
That wouldn't surprice me considering how every viable RE strategy that gets attention on the forum seems to be stomped out in the next patch.
... because this worked so well last time and replaces real Q&A?
PLEASE
Play also singleplayer!!! The majority of your players DO NOT play multiplayer! Do balancing according to this!
PLEASE
Play also singleplayer!!! The majority of your players DO NOT play multiplayer! Do balancing according to this!
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A better MP game most of the time makes for a better SP game. I am kinda suprised as well at this notion as MP input changed the game since back at EU2. So where is the issue?
A better MP game most of the time makes for a better SP game. I am kinda suprised as well at this notion as MP input changed the game since back at EU2. So where is the issue?
I'm With the Archduke on this one. At some point, SP starts to become Bland, because its rinse, wash, and repeat, over and over and over again. MP gives the advantage of Human unpredictability, and stranger strategies.
SP and MP complement each other well.
With you guys too. But we totally arent biased or anything
To those who havent tried MP......join the dark side! We have backstabbings.