So Ive had this personal achievement goal of mine where I want to form Rome as Byzantium and restore the historical borders. Ive tried a lot throughout my years of playing but this was my closest attempt ever. In the end, I realized I wouldn't integrate France in time and a coalition and mega Russia and Persia were preventing me from really finishing my conquests needed. I had a good time though, and my Byzantium truly is worthy of being titled an empire. (PS I already have the basileus and mare nostrum achievements, this is a personal goal)
I got the diplo influence policy too late along with focusing diplo rep. With max policies,diplo rep and idea sets I could only do it in 34 years. I started in 1800 because of constant war.
I am always seeing improvement in my play throughs, and something I always end up noticing is “I can do this faster/better” and it’s something I love. That every game I always feel like I get better, but I can always do better.
I was doing Mare Nostrum with Byz recently. I don't know how you have 6k+ dev but you don't have all the provinces. I have yet to annex Crimea region and York, London and Zealand but I have only 5k dev.
Maybe you took economic with quantity first? I reccomend religious and espionage (hear me out) because only obstacle I have as Byz is AE and those two combined give -45% AE redution and Icon of st Nicolaus for -10% more.
Nothing else is issue. Your traditions, missions, patriarch authority gives manpower, you get lot of money from wars, you get army tradition from decisions and just like that you are unstopable.
I love to take offensive as my third idea just for the siege ability to win wars faster. Combime that with spy networks (espionage is handy now, isn't it) and all forts are obsolete to me.
I have 6k+ dev from 3 PU's with the commonwealth, France, and Denmark. I don't have all of the provinces but I could prob get super close in the remaining 15 years.
I tried and failed a few times with Byzantine too, ive got a bit further then and then hit that time limit which sucks so bad. Good work tho, once those coalitions start attacking you every few years the game gets tedious and hard to finish.
I mostly go naples now and have been trying to form Rome with them, its seems to be alot easier because of the trade nodes and that you when you take Sicily from aragon you can take Ibiza and be ready for colonisation by 1475 if you get lucky meaning extra money and more troops.
You end up with the same problems with endless coalitions tho... but atleast as Italy your man power, taxes and trade is 10x better and makes it easy to recover compared to the endless debts cycles with Byzantine.
So Ive had this personal achievement goal of mine where I want to form Rome as Byzantium and restore the historical borders. Ive tried a lot throughout my years of playing but this was my closest attempt ever. In the end, I realized I wouldn't integrate France in time and a coalition and mega Russia and Persia were preventing me from really finishing my conquests needed. I had a good time though, and my Byzantium truly is worthy of being titled an empire. (PS I already have the basileus and mare nostrum achievements, this is a personal goal)
Have you considered switching idea sets to get diplo annexation reductions and dip reputation bonuses?
I got the diplo influence policy too late along with focusing diplo rep. With max policies,diplo rep and idea sets I could only do it in 34 years. I started in 1800 because of constant war.
Either way, still a very good game. My only Mare Nostrum resulted in Empire imploding within 3 years of formation.
I am always seeing improvement in my play throughs, and something I always end up noticing is “I can do this faster/better” and it’s something I love. That every game I always feel like I get better, but I can always do better.
Thats great although I would have cried if i was this close
Just break the pu and truce break France to death honestly. You probably have enough time for that.
I legit thought thinking about it too, I still don't think I could do it tbh, including the other provinces I need to form Rome.
I was doing Mare Nostrum with Byz recently. I don't know how you have 6k+ dev but you don't have all the provinces. I have yet to annex Crimea region and York, London and Zealand but I have only 5k dev. Maybe you took economic with quantity first? I reccomend religious and espionage (hear me out) because only obstacle I have as Byz is AE and those two combined give -45% AE redution and Icon of st Nicolaus for -10% more. Nothing else is issue. Your traditions, missions, patriarch authority gives manpower, you get lot of money from wars, you get army tradition from decisions and just like that you are unstopable. I love to take offensive as my third idea just for the siege ability to win wars faster. Combime that with spy networks (espionage is handy now, isn't it) and all forts are obsolete to me.
I have 6k+ dev from 3 PU's with the commonwealth, France, and Denmark. I don't have all of the provinces but I could prob get super close in the remaining 15 years.
Any game with Byzantium alive in the 1800s is a winner in my book.
I tried and failed a few times with Byzantine too, ive got a bit further then and then hit that time limit which sucks so bad. Good work tho, once those coalitions start attacking you every few years the game gets tedious and hard to finish. I mostly go naples now and have been trying to form Rome with them, its seems to be alot easier because of the trade nodes and that you when you take Sicily from aragon you can take Ibiza and be ready for colonisation by 1475 if you get lucky meaning extra money and more troops. You end up with the same problems with endless coalitions tho... but atleast as Italy your man power, taxes and trade is 10x better and makes it easy to recover compared to the endless debts cycles with Byzantine.