Firstly, Granada has better ideas than the Byzantine ones. They contain three of the most monarch point-saving ideas of the whole game: Lower core, tech and idea costs. This makes it pretty clear that no idea set can rival them.
Better ideas does not equate to deserving more flavor (though one could make the argument that better ideas
are flavor). Albania's Ideas are incredible, and their flavor is limited to how fast they disappear. Inversely, Naples ideas are a parody of themselves and they a decent amount of flavor. Would I like to see Granada get an event or two? Sure, but National Ideas doesn't equate to being deserving of flavor.
I wouldn't mind seeing the Byzantine NI's restructured to include Core Cost, though, as they've had so many cores stripped away from them for the sake of not sparking rebellions that it's become an inside joke.
Moreover, Granada has a sacred goal: As it's humble emir, save the poor Iberians from the instruments of the inquisition and the corrupted Roman Catholics!
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Dutchman251 said:
However, Byzantium is nothing but a perfidious try to restore a corrupted and long gone empire, which deserves nothing but to be destroyed by the teeth of time.
Appealing to Jake's Byzantophobia does not actually make your argument stronger or any less of a double-standard.
Finally, playing Granada is a real challenge. It is not about employing some gamey strategies (such as ahistorically allying European majors or hiding behind galleys),
While I do agree Granada is a challenge - and, again, it can be argued that challenge is flavor in of itself - as is Byzantium regardless of gamey strategies, historically Byzantium
did rely on their navy and European powers to bail them out on multiple occasions.
but about taking your chance in the pan-Iberian-Navarran war, and being backed only by your natural allies in the mountains of Northern Africa, trying to get colonial returns and fighting the most powerful nation of western Europe (do that in Navarra).
Granada does indeed have a great more deal of strategies to use than Byzantium - and, again, it can be argued that this is flavor in of itself.
I hope I could convince you! Also on the fact that Granada needs some dynamic ahistorical events and missions like Byzantium!
Getting an event or two that rewards you for retaking Cordoba and Toledo would indeed be nice and a good way to reward you for your hard work beyond restoring Al-Andalus, and maybe some sprites for Granada sometime down the road, but much more than that would be resources better spent in other parts of the world more in need of flavor.
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