This EU4 BYZANTIUM is my FAVOURITE Campaign EVER | 1.36 KoK

That's a really nice looking Byzantium run. Hoping to see some Eastern Romain and Roman Empire shenenigans next

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I don't get it. Are these tutorials on very hard? How can you ally anyone from the start for instance?

My last successful Byzantium campaign was in EU2.

I noticed that you do not take a lot of war reperations/money from your enemies! Is it in order to speed up video production by having fast expanding wars or is there a gameplay reason behind it? :D

All you have to do is patrol to stop the knights from raiding, because you dont need the whole navy for Epirus. Then the knights will always ally after that war if you improve just a little. easy peasy..

ALSO, the money from Serbia scales with your relation: 150 relations = 100 ducats, 200 relations = 250 ducats

Oh Zlewikk, I realised when you allied Ragusa that they were about to become full-annexed by Venice. Wouldn't you consider more optimal to wait until that happens so that the Ottomans turn into the war leader? That way you can get two 100% deals in about five years.

Nice

I love KoK!!!

Avenge 1071 is about the battle of manzikert where the declining byzatine army was finally completely shattered, opening the route for the seljuks into asia minor.

Has anyone tested what happens if you spend the 150 mil on the decision to support the Thessaly campaign? Every guide video I’ve seen took the other option, and the options seem very heavily tilted to favor that, so wondering if supporting the campaign has some secret buff Easter Egg

Hey mate I guess you can gift a cossack headdress to me :)

that was so enjoyable to watch. nice one :)

he makes it look so easy

How did he get the claim on ragusa I dont get it?

why the bgm is Annbenar

Bro i was following you 5 years ago i was so into the game and all those years watching you was great! Just came here to pay my respect lol. Wish you best in ur life man.

I'm more than 100 years behind you, but I have only 5000 hours in eu4, so it's acceptible :D But it's a lot of fun, I actually managed to PU Burgundy, Moscow and England and I have my dynasty on Portugal's throne, but they didn't fell into my trap yet.. Can't wait for my Persia and Mamluk runs :)

is this Anbennar music playing in the background?

To ally Knights first day I use 1 trade ship to protect against pirates in constantinople trade node, and 2nd one ship for protecting in ragusa trade node, they both are set to return port during war, rest of fleet transports army and participates in war against Epirus. After the war with Epirus I have already high enough relations to take alliance and can move my 2 ships to protect trade. You can't be raided while at least 1 ship protects in a trade node.

Thanks for the amazing content. I haven’t played the new dlc yet but guides like yours help out a ton. Oh, and I just subscribed 👍

Love a long Zlewikk video :)

Very nice

in my campaign i was able to get austria and hungary as allies and i got sooo lucky because the ottomans declared war on albania who called in serbia and venice. so i effectively had serbia, venice, albania, austria, and hungary in my war. as a bonus i was able to quickly take out serbia who was only allied with albania

this was hard to watch as a Turk

Looks like it s not only me who get a 6 4 6 ruler on every pronoia i get , i guess is a bug , tho wish i could always get a ruler that great xD

This game has gorillions of modifiers but still no pop system. Sad.

Maybe a bit of an exploit. But you can send one of each of your lights to hunt pirates in Ragusa and Constantinopol trade nodes and The Knignts won't be able to raid you.

I like Kok

Byzantium doesn't feel like it has a weak start anymore. Paradox made it clear. KEKW

Impressive! Your 1510 Byzantium is better than my 1570. I have a lot to learn.

Why not very hard lol

Easy ways to ally the Knights, if you really want to, is to guarantee them day 1 and improve during the first war with Epirus. This usually prevents them from raiding you long enough to get the Alliance.

I feel like the Pronoiars are a real noob trap, because early game, having one big pronoiar like Bulgaria is ok, but get more than one and you very quickly become overwhelmed in vassel liberty desire.
In my opinion, the pronoiars are really good when you're expanding through italy, diplomatically vassalizing the many opms there, then making them hereditary and forgetting about them for 10-20 years while you expand elsewhere.
That's why in my run I went Espionage/Admin/Influence. Your army is already pretty good so its really not necessary to take a mil idea and you can reduce your AE by so much just by diplo vassalizing Italy instead of conquering it.
Liberate nations like Parma, Modena or Padua who start with cores inside a larger nation, then diplo annex them too.
Its really a nice, stress free way of expanding and while it may be slower than taking it yourself, its less coalitions you have to deal with.
Also, I love how in this campaign, there are a few nations like the Knights whom you can use Support Rebels on to get free land. You can do it to Genoa's islands as well (to lesser success) and if you're really lucky you can support greek seps on Cyprus as well, who would flip to you if successful.
You can also kick the butts of Genoa and Venice to get rid of the ship building time as well, which i'm always in favor of.
Really love the new Byzantine mission tree. Feels like theres so many different ways of approaching general expansion paths and i'm always a fan of those "Expand->Consolodate->Reinforce" missions like Corintar's in Anbennar.

So zlewick your opinion on pronoia? Good? Wait for modder to fix them? Buff them ? Better use normal vassals and marches?

Ok, changing colour from BYZ one to Roman's is the best misssion reward one can imagine, 10/10

I tried do much time and i miss all m'y attempt. I had some frustrated run, so watch someone have great success is good for my mental health

If I got a dollar every time you said leverage I would’ve been a billionaire

My favourite KoK mission tree so far

HOW DOES AGGRESSIVE EXPANSION DOESN'T TOUCH THIS MAN

Personally, I don't like when streamers take the worst option/no option because of RNG. It's part of the game and I'm happy to see someone else get lucky. Also, RNG is something we all must adjust to, so seeing how you adjust can be enlightening.

Thanks for the campaign!
Isn't spawning bulgarian rebels after the ottoman war and just conquering it for yourself (because of the trade node) better than releasing Bulgaria?

You cant inherit unloyal ones

I believe you can get rid of the army priviledge with the dev strat from absolute habibi(a mission reduces the amount of dev and troops you need and another requirement to complete it) but this seems less rng reliant, I do wonder how you can get the Ottos to attack someone else first always. I guess alliances deter the Ottos from declaring on you first cause they see the Beyliks or trebizond as a more attractive target.