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http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/byzantine-monarchy.862661/page-8#post-19532018
I would like to express here some ideas related to the concept of the Third Rome, as it has been transposed in the states which have declared themselves successors of Byzantium/Rome.
I think should not be possible to form Russia if Byzantium still exists, the Russian empire based its existence on the supposed inheritance of the imperial title from Constantinople to Moscow. And, I believe, so it should be.
For the rest the events concerning the patriarchy with the option to stay under the patriarchate of Constantinople getting claims on the Balkans is wonderful.
Then it would be very interesting to see in the game what concerns the Ottomans, specifically Mehmed II. After the conquest of Constantinople, Mehmed claimed the title "Kayser-i Rum" or "Caesar of the Romans" for him and his successors (it can be a country modifier), and from that moment he considered himself as such, to the point that in 1480 he began an expedition in Italy to conquer the city of Rome and for a year (1480-1481) occupied the city of Otranto. He was not able to continue only because in 1481 he became sick and died. But meanwhile the Pope had already prepared a plan to evacuate the population of Rome, because if he survived almost surely would be able to enter in Rome.
I was thinking about a decision and maybe a series of events allowing the player to replicate this attempt to create an islamic Rome, and if you manage to achieve it you might have big bonus, or even a change of tag from ottomans to something else, like "Empire of Rum" or simply and better the old Byz tag keeping the Ottoman ideas (in this case change the Byz symbol with the eagle can be very useful, maybe inverting symbols between Morea and Byzantium).
Perhaps limiting the possibility that the AI can choose this route.
I know that there are things in the game that deserve a higher priority, but this would still be, in my opinion, very interesting from the point of view of the players and the alternate history lovers.
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/byzantine-monarchy.862661/page-8#post-19532018
I would like to express here some ideas related to the concept of the Third Rome, as it has been transposed in the states which have declared themselves successors of Byzantium/Rome.
I think should not be possible to form Russia if Byzantium still exists, the Russian empire based its existence on the supposed inheritance of the imperial title from Constantinople to Moscow. And, I believe, so it should be.
For the rest the events concerning the patriarchy with the option to stay under the patriarchate of Constantinople getting claims on the Balkans is wonderful.
Then it would be very interesting to see in the game what concerns the Ottomans, specifically Mehmed II. After the conquest of Constantinople, Mehmed claimed the title "Kayser-i Rum" or "Caesar of the Romans" for him and his successors (it can be a country modifier), and from that moment he considered himself as such, to the point that in 1480 he began an expedition in Italy to conquer the city of Rome and for a year (1480-1481) occupied the city of Otranto. He was not able to continue only because in 1481 he became sick and died. But meanwhile the Pope had already prepared a plan to evacuate the population of Rome, because if he survived almost surely would be able to enter in Rome.
I was thinking about a decision and maybe a series of events allowing the player to replicate this attempt to create an islamic Rome, and if you manage to achieve it you might have big bonus, or even a change of tag from ottomans to something else, like "Empire of Rum" or simply and better the old Byz tag keeping the Ottoman ideas (in this case change the Byz symbol with the eagle can be very useful, maybe inverting symbols between Morea and Byzantium).
Perhaps limiting the possibility that the AI can choose this route.
I know that there are things in the game that deserve a higher priority, but this would still be, in my opinion, very interesting from the point of view of the players and the alternate history lovers.
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