The Surprisingly Simple Way to Form Byzantium - Hoi4

I still remember when forming Byzantium required the player to take all of the Balkans with strats like forming a faction with Italy to avoid their guarantees on Albania, I don't miss those days. What we have now with Greece's tree and all is still much more fun and replayable regardless of Byz's requirements being simplified a tad.

Is this up to date?

Hey does this guide still work?

Hey does this still work?

I've tried this about five times. You're a liar, it doesn't work anymore. Turkey doesn't invade and because of that you can't break through. But yeah, keep this up to get your views!

This guide DOES NOT WORK. Turkey will invade athens then invade Kalamata, and while you are trying to take out Kalamta they take Athens and it is game over.

I just got the achievement and the guide works. What helped me was to research the infantry/artillery weapons and industrial technology fast and put 4 artillery in every unit by this way Turk troops got annihilated. I even lost Venizelos too quick but that didnt stop me down.

I'm new to this game so can anyone please explain to me how did he get from 11 factories at the begining and then I see after 7 days he has 15.

Bro when i try and make the same infantry template it doesn't give me the option or artillery. Wth is up with that???

not working anymore as of AAT

Tbh now with the new dlc where everyone can just buy guns its way harder. I played a war were i thaught i would win in time and then i realized that my enemy just kept on buying guns...... And the time is important too because i dont wait like 3 to 4 years until i do byzantinum...... I do it with the self naval invasions and the atacking from different directions until my enemy has no more divisions left.

His commentary is way too slow bzt the tutorial is really helpful, so imma sub anyway.

I'm not sure how relevant this is but for me it's may in 1938 and the turks haven't invaded once which seems a little funny to me.

I don’t get the option to put the king into house arrest :( help pls

For me they joined the allies!!

It’s all fun and games until Turkey does 3 naval invasions and you lose half the fucking country

Turkey always calls yugoslavia in war in every attempt

Can you update it to arms against tyranny version

Yeah... I dunno if it's because of Arms Against Tyranny but this ain't happening chief.

After no less than 10 attempts, I have NEVER had Turkey do it's Naval invasions on Athens, even with ALL other ports garrisoned.

Been doing an ironman greece run for achievements, and I swear I was so concerned with trying to finesse the Macedonian pocket, it just wasn't working because the Turks would not occupy chalkidi, so when I could never really get good encirclements and the war dragged on until italy invaded me. I think this strat is much better, and will be trying it on my next run.

Doesn't work, complete rng on the naval invasion in Athens. Pushing in Alexandropolis doesn't work either.

This piece of shit game made me fucking mad! I tried this strategy 2 times. First time Turkey did not made any naval invasion, so i let the come a bit then i made naval invasion behind them, so i could lower their numbers slowly. They Italy fucked up my game. After i tried again, now faster, without waiting Turkey to do something, i was so successfull, but this time Turkey made naval invasion and beat me with 4 division, because Grecce is small as fuck and i did not have any time to conquer back my territories with my entire army. This game is shit!

Good guide. One little edit. If you make the faction with bulgaria and let them join. You can purposely not help bulgaria. As romania kills bulgaria kick them from the faction and they will cap. So when you beat romania you get bulgaria too.

10/10 editing

why didn't you kill the cavarly on the islands next to chalics?

They always accept the megali idea and I don’t know what to do

Great video, thank you!

Turkey never naval invaded athens 😢

I dont know how to prevent them from taking athens back, Ive ruined 4 playthroughs. Just gonna go onto another video.

I can't get over how well you pronounced the city names, we'll done !

instead of invading athens the AI invaded a random tile next to kalamata, I beat them there but they never came back. To add insult to injury, the AI could not be pushed in alexdropolis and when I tried to retreat the AI was just stupid strong. Where did I go wrong?

doesnt work romania send troops to the front line

I don't have the option to make Nikolaos the army group leader

also at what point do you start paying up debts

Thank you so much everybody tries this naval invasion trick and get shit ton of resources which doesn't fucking work nobody gives you anything and naval invasion fails

what? byzantium not working any more? i did your old 5 achievement in one go guide to get almost all greece achievements and i had absolutely no problem

I've done this twice and turkey just isn't naval invading

thank you bubbles, just did this and Bad Romeance, your video is 10x better than bittersteels and isorrows!

First run at trying this I got screwed by Turkey joining the Allies and got invaded by France lmao

Am I the only person who can’t get any of these Byzantine guides to work? Awesome guides, easy to follow. But the Turks just don’t play ball and the Italians invade before I can get it done

Turkey wont naval invade for some reason at all. I had to retreat to Thessaloniki to be able to encircle them.

This worked great for me. I got lucky however because Turkey and Romania formed a faction together and turkey became a major. Right before Turkey capitulated Yugoslavia joined the war and I got all 3 of them in the peace conference.

Can you do an Ottoman Empire guide? All the debuffs for Turkey + dealing with the Kurds make it a headache.

Commenting here since i felt bad not commenting after commenting on the other Byzantium videos.

Bubble, forcing farmers into factories leads to the bedrock of financial stability, which is way better than opening foreign subsidized factories, read both of them and you will see

This channel is so underrated.

In the future could you tell when your building things like a port beforehand?

How are you telling them to attack the port without them marching straight in and taking it back? I've ruined two games now by taking the port back on accident and the AI won't naval invade again after that

Nice video. Can you do all the Australia achievements in one run?