The Phoenix Rose, and taught the Turks the Art of War

[Iamdead7]

Unless you are going for WC or something close, Turkish will likely stay an accepted culture for the rest of the game - especially if the buffed Constantinople is Turkish. So what's the downside?

The only real way to play Byzantium is to covert all of Anatolia back to Greek?

 

[Ultrix Prime]

The only real way to play Byzantium is to covert all of Anatolia back to Greek?

The only real way to play the Ottomans is to convert to Orthodox and then take the option to convert culture to Greek

 

[FloatingOrb]

About all the statement of all of byzantium's money coming from the east, all you really need is the alleppo trade node and then some barques for alexandria. After that you have more money than you know what to do with and it literally just becomes a number that never, ever sees 2 digits again.

 

[BannerofRome]

I just started a new byz game after seeing this post, but I got lucky, they ended up at war with the Mamluks before they attacked me ( not that they would, I got a diplo rep and had Austria, Hungary, Georgia, and Serbia as allies). So I jumped on them and won that first war completely.