After 4 YEARS I FINALLY Played Byzantium In EU4

[@TheRedHawk]

Let me know if you want to see part 2!

[@grampaseri]

Yes, please.

[@JustAwesomeAndRatedR]

Oh hell yes

[@luisdiegoplayer0739]

Part 2 pls

[@blagerthorpnonersense1894]

More Byz! Should become a restoration of Rome only channel.

[@rmkarros]

yes

[@ardbzfun]

42:30 When you beat the ottomans so much they become orthodox

[@gabrielclark1425]

Classic Turk Tactic. Can't beat 'em? Join them, take them over from the inside via general competence, and declare yourself the new Rome.

[@gheorghitaalsunculitei9146]

Look closer! It's an orthodox sultanate!

[@kvin96]

Orthomans confirmed

[@Scott-en-tot]

There's never a bad time to do a Byzantium run! Excited to watch the whole series!

[@90skidcultist]

So, why aren’t you playing as “Byzantium”, then! Go play some more “Byzantium”! Then play some more…! 💦🔫🤬

[@Yes-qj4bi]

The haircut bro, very fire.

[@clony3094]

Its a nice contrast to Laith's chaotic hair

[@the_niss]

Without my glasses, redhawk and laith slowly becoming one

[@amuujin5937]

like, actually, bro is hot

[@peterscott4715]

Starting to look like a hawk. Just needing some red.

[@vitbur]

Shaved was way better

[@BogdanAriasu]

Finally some love for THE Roman Empire

[@BasileosHerodou]

The byzantine empire*

[@p.r.o.d9685]

​@@BasileosHerodou Eastern Roman Empire*

[@cedricl.marquard6273]

​@@p.r.o.d9685 Isn't that the same?

[@p.r.o.d9685]

@cedricl.marquard6273 No, they called themselves Roman's. Byzantine is a Western invention to separate them(Eastern Roman Empire) from the Roman Empire because of the creation of the Holy Roman Empire in the West.

[@cedricl.marquard6273]

@p.r.o.d9685 But wasn't Byzantine invented even later than the HRE? To basically distinguish between when the West was still present to when the east became more and more graerified? That's what I always thought. Basically that the "Byzantine" is once the Empire becomes more than a subdivision of the Roman Empire

[@JustAwesomeAndRatedR]

35:09 If you really want to conquer Caucasia, release Trebizond as a vassal, make them a pronoia and feed them all provinces with Georgian culture.. Trebizond can use the mission "Georgian Union" in the mission tree to convert Georgian to Greco-Georgian, which saves you a place in the accepted cultures. And a little Bonus: With the "Chaldian Deposits" mission in the mission tree, Trebizond can change the trade goods in his capital Trebizond from Naval supplies to Gold and in Erzurum from Livestock to Copper.

[@barbadoskado2769]

AWESOME HAIRCUT !! lovin it! and a byzantium video. me gusta

[@Pedro159TT]

Finally! I am loving your several parts series, Hawk. You're my favorite youtuber rn!

[@Dederlys]

I want so hard you to finish this campaign. I love Byzantium into Roman Empire. That was my first successful EU4 campaign back in 1.36 thanks to your guide. Thxs for the content !

[@90skidcultist]

It’s basically Roman Empire into Rome Empire…

[@mateuszchoda5560]

My advice for playing Byz: Pronoia are actually very important - they don't take a relation slot, and you need at least two if you want the standing army branching missions (which also make them stronger). Religious is op, because of missionary strength buffs and tolerance of the true faith. It can be better to convert freshly taken provinces before coring them, since the conversions are so fast, and tolerance outweighs unrest debuffs from unaccepted cultures and the like.

[@mariano98ify]

indeed!!

[@thegrumpyraccoon]

Don't worry about longevity of EU4. Knowing paradox track record, EU5 will probably be so flavourless that people won't care for it until 2029.

[@حسینموسوی-ه9غ]

Yeah they just suck without dlcs

[@harcoom]

Guys we have to pray EU5 will be different.

[@harcoom]

Literally pray

[@jean-edouardahmedozzi6120]

bro I still play CK2 ain't no way I'm transitioning over to CK3 anytime soon

[@Dakotaidk]

I still play imperator rome 😊

[@SRWG9001]

Byzantium is always a fun run because of the sequence of bosses you have to face in order to restore the empire. You have a big initial hurdle with the ottos, then you have the mamluks, and then unless things get really wacky you still have major threats in the colonizers, france, etc.

[@tigrosabertooth4757]

Some notes for novices in byzantine struggle: 1)convert epirus on vassalization for prestige and lower LD, 2)declare on ottos about 1446-48, when they're gone for supporting timmies' vassals rebellion, 3)keep about 26 regiments on gallipoli, and ottos won't cross. 4)take bulgaria westerm and two eastern cores, decrease autonomy, then provoke - ottos can't land and fight rebels back, and in 5 years bulgaria is yours. 5)declare on serbia immediately after first war, bcs reconquering them from hungary will be way harder.

[@liamreitsma5312]

Finally someone who knows how to play, however, I do prefer the morale of armies and navies so I take Cephalonia rather than vassalise. Also it allows me to let ottomans cross in small stacks for me to wipe. Hiring mercs also allows you to not need allies meaning all the money you get is for you.

[@tigrosabertooth4757]

@liamreitsma5312 vassalizing epirus gives you bigger naval and land forcelimit than annexing, and you lose less money

[@DaedricGod]

Crimea as a vassal is looking like a good reconquest against the ottomans

[@SharpieLEET]

Wow, what a coincidence. I was just saying that I should play Byzantium again and should find a guide on KZbin. Thank you so much man!

[@tigrosabertooth4757]

BM's guides are still better. He's a pro in driving turks out of balkans and anatolia since 2014 or smth.

[@xOdySx]

Bm?​@@tigrosabertooth4757

[@dorktriogamer2865]

​@@tigrosabertooth4757 Who the hell's bm?

[@tigrosabertooth4757]

@dorktriogamer2865 budget monk, the best byzantine guide maker(except for florryworry, maybe)

[@polarischris5812]

Hawk you're hands down my favorite EU4 youtuber. I can't wait to see what you do with this playthrough. I'm 1600 hours into the game and I feel like my knowledge for the game has plateau'd and I'm learning less and less each time I play so being able to watch someone with wayyyy more experience might give me more ideas :)

[@rsgr8nbed55]

Your videos cemented my love of this game. Thank you for your hard work and brilliant sense of humor and personality.

[@bobboo101]

Retract right to inheritance exists, please use it

[@iliastephnadze]

" I don't think I need Wallachia from Poland" The entire country of "ROMA"NIA: 👁️👄👁️

[@danplocinski9273]

Very excited for this playthrough, I recently tried a Byzantium run using your old guide and Aragon kept Naples for maybe the first time I've ever seen. Also, for anyone else attempting, make sure you have at least 15 galleys or you can't naval barrage Ottoman forts.

[@Dimwitland]

Rad. Getting ready to decide what will be _my_ last hurrahs for IV, this is a possible inspiration! Thanks Looking forward to any continuation!

[@АндрійМалярчук-ю5ф]

Yay, always happy to see Byzantium, especially from my favourite EU 4 KZbinr! Definitely looking forward to the next series of this run!

[@elbast0]

Great start! The monument in Athens pairs rally well with the gov reform to reduce the cost of advisors with ruler’s religion (and innovative and or espionage). You could be drowning in mana.

[@helmuthgruber647]

Hi Hawk, thank you for this series. I am on the same quest right now. I wish you all the Best.

[@KingKongveal]

I had a similar thing in my Aragon to Rome run where my allies Austria strongly desired all of the Ottoman lands in Anatolia as well. I very nearly lost them as an ally before I figured out what was going on. It was very odd. This was a fun video. I can't wait to see the rest of this run!

[@SpyBehindYou]

Brother I felt like playing byz for real today instead as forming them as cursed venice and after looking for a video I get this gem uploaded 1 hour ago. Good rng today also nice hair

[@taylorknight9161]

Made my day waking up and seeing this had uploaded! Can't wait for the rest

[@seoreh3138]

Very cool to see you just enjoying the game, doing cool things

[@Ginkgarbor]

I really like these kinds of multiple part video series! I already really enjoyed the three-parter of modded exiled Byzantium and it would genuinely be exciting to see you do these series more often. I know the view count and retention get worse each part (at least from what I've seen on other EU4 channels doing these series), but they'd make for a really nice filler between A-Z and Releasables! Really excited for the future of The Red Hawk! 😎

[@hubertjaworski6871]

It will be awsome to Watch that such a good creator making Roman empire

[@BINKAIMA]

Nice video Hawk! Enjoyed it a lot!

[@LouGuberti]

The parliament as part of reformed byz government was a 1 patch thing in 1.35 or 36. Honestly wouldn't mind them bringing that back

[@theholyroman6283]

Fun fact - you still get the core on Cephalonia if you conquer it.

[@Malibudave90]

Great work. Can‘t wait for part 2!

[@1212Diablo]

Great video man! Like that you roleplay some and want to get some good borders!

[@Ed-uf7mw]

Great video, Red. Looking forward to part 2.

[@osiris3676]

i love your vids man, i watch and rewatch them all the time

[@nicktrains2234]

Red hawk the way you run your economy always gives me anxiety

[@MrBattlecharge]

Hawk : "As you all know, EU4 is coming to a close" Me : "... what!?"

[@epicarcher999]

Project Caesar is the next big game release publicly announced for Paradox, and at this point it’s been all but confirmed to be EU5 or some kind of successor to EU4

[@tigrosabertooth4757]

Are you living in a cave? Ludi's alarm siren working 24/7 last year.

[@MrBattlecharge]

@@epicarcher999 I had heard of project Caesar, but I know it is still in development. I hadn't heard anything about EU4 being closed.

[@MrBattlecharge]

@@tigrosabertooth4757 I guess so - who is Ludi?

[@tigrosabertooth4757]

@MrBattlecharge ludi et historia - the most known eu4 streamer and guide maker, 200k subscribers on yt.

[@bigfiregames2261]

i left the game for half an year and came back later and man your look changed a lot

[@venrocking]

Would be nice to see you do playthrough on Europa Expanded. There's some crazy good/long mission trees and events there with the final release patch. (personal recommendation Nepales, Frankia formation, Marocco/Tunis into Andalusia)

[@LifeorDeath2077]

Yeah Austria for whatever reason in the most recent patch(es) always makes the Ottoman land strong interest even if they don't have any claims. It's been a bit annoying in some of my recent campaigns I've been doing

[@lantredasphodele5858]

Enjoyed the video and really love your more complete campaign with goal and all both of the Byz one are nice this one and the modded one x) Wanna see you play as LanFang too ! (formable by Sambas in indonesia)

[@chrisgrz1319]

Love your Obi-Wan Kenobi Ep. 2 hair-stile

[@Meowth666]

You really don't need Religious ideas as Byzantium, with Rome and Mecca you'll get 2 free missionaries, with max patriarch authority plus the mission rewards you'll get huge missionary strength, and you will get permaclaims on every single province you need. Also you really should try out the pronoiars. With the government reform you can make a client state in land you just conquered, let them core it all for you and then inherit them for free. Its basically a 100%CCR reform, but you also get a vassal swarm on top.

[@Bagman666]

16:50 wtf man, pronoias ars the best subject type for reconquer provinces, as you can integrate them for free after their monarch die lol

[@jokke_is_love6198]

same, I cringed at "that doesn't work"

[@NaoeY]

Really enjoying these full campaigns

[@johannes968]

You should release Aragon when you fight Spain

[@quintomalley1196]

I got lucky with Byzantium, catching the Ottoman armies on the other side of the Bosphorous. I decisively defeated their entire army after claiming the Bosphorous with my navy and then took back most of Greece, going heavy on development to build up my army for round 2.

[@twocows360]

i think with a lot of the byz missions, you can get more than one reward if you satisfy multiple conditions. it's weird because it doesn't work like that for some other countries, but i believe with byz it does.

[@BedroomView]

Can’t wait for part 2 bro 🙏😮‍💨

[@alexherr6907]

I think you'd have more fun doing it as Trebizond. Try it out. It's genuinely VERY HARD and opens the Cappadocian culture and an opportunity for the Greco-Georgian and Grico cultures to be in. It's a damn near impossible game but it's beautiful when you get it going well.

[@OttoIncognito]

Hi, I want to see part 2. If you're taking suggestions, I'd really like it if you remade the exact borders of the empire at it's peak, with no more and no less provinces owned

[@donzapatero4808]

I just noticed your hair is back. Nice it looks good on you

[@xOdySx]

When watching someone playing Biz I want to play immediately... Eh, addiction! Give us more more ;)

[@хейтер-д4з]

I loved watching Eu5 news from you

[@calamity916]

Keep them coming, Hawk.

[@thomasgiblin-c1c]

was awesome bud please continue

[@Sercotani]

watched the entirety of the video, funny how the video length is real close to 1453. I hope you continue this series, even though it will get really tedious once you get around to reconquering Western Europe...

[@UwU_for_Christ]

i always wondered what i was doing wrong that EU4 KZbinrs could expand so much faster than me, turned out I had accidently changed the difficulty so was playing with huge debuffs for like a year lol

[@angrymonkeynoises]

'restore the roman empire..' my nifhga, you are the roman empire

[@lolpuuroa]

you mean the greek kingdom.. the real roman empire is in the west

[@angrymonkeynoises]

@lolpuuroa Slum dweller take. Probably a Syrian or Latin American

[@zhsloe]

@lolpuuroa U r wrong or else it wouldn't be called Basileia RHOMAIONA :P :D :D :D ROMA INVICTA

[@lolpuuroa]

@@zhsloe you're wrong otherwise it wouldn't be called IMPERIUM ROMANORUM Sacrum (in the original Roman language, Latin, mind you, not some barbarian eastern "Greek" or whatever)

[@zhsloe]

@lolpuuroa Let's just say there was some redecorating in Rome and afterwards even the OGs like Justinian all agreed that the REAL shit is eastwards and not in the barbaric West :P

[@thecritic860]

I see Byzantines, I click

[@Thermonnuclear]

So excited for this series

[@balintmolnar5153]

I would like to see keep going great job!

[@Manson1990]

I'm a simple man, I see roman something, I click it

[@hoteyz11]

you should make a video where on every monarch death/election a new player continues or something like that

[@henryglennon3864]

Red Hawk's really upped his hair game. I know he already rejected the idea, but Laith's going to have to go dreadlocks if he wants to keep up the arms race.

[@fungisrock8955]

So ready for Guides A-Z, a guide for EVERY nation, as an encycolpedia if guides before EU5😂

[@ervinergean]

Nice gameplay... Old school🤟

[@nikolaitregouet]

Hawk with hair, wtf?😂 Looks much better btw

[@apo2000]

This looks so different to my byzantium run: your clicking so many missions, I play this game without dlcs 😂

[@hurraytheist]

Loving the long hair bro wildman out

[@rosta_rio]

Finally.

[@bloodycommander2951]

Entertaining as always Hawk.Also,is it possible to have colonies as albania?😅😅😅

[@rsabinioan]

Modern mullet mustache Red Hawk incoming????

[@kyleschanck7520]

Red Hawk… doing a multiple part series??? How far back in time did we go? I feel like I’m watching a Chewy video on Byz again from the first time he did a play through.

[@kyleschanck7520]

That’s good btw. Very good show

[@rhystaylor9290]

Finally 🎉🎉

[@nickpap6083]

Please continue this run!

[@BubbaJ18]

Great video from a top 0.2% fan 😂

[@lfx2mlfx2m8]

YES, continue the run

[@Thenoisyoneyes]

At 34:15 you should have clicked the mission first then cored, as you would save 25% CCC from perma claims.

[@OoUNSTOPABL3oO]

Finally!

[@LOKJAV]

Once Austria wins their first war against Ottomans, they complete a mission and start strongly desiring their European provinces

[@FarsightAE]

Venice to La Serenissima to Italy to Rome to HRE.

[@kekkoinen]

You know, i bet the video is good, but im just here looking at that fire haircut

[@kristianjensen2665]

Commenting to praise the algorithm (and part 2) :))

[@julespodevyn1613]

love the video, you should make use of your icons tho it would've saved a lot of points when devving colonialism

[@cursedex3755]

Byzanbros, we are so back

[@kaanrivis]

Playing Byz is eaaaasy. But can you do the „Mehmed‘s Ambition“??? 😂

[@Pr3datorJurian]

Great series

[@dark_fighterx2671]

Bring back the guidess🙏🙏

[@AlS_YouTube]

This guy looks like he controls fire 🔥🔥🔥

[@petralizzy7383]

your haircut is so cute!

[@ottobuchmann3646]

Why wouldn't you do the mission for permanent claims on Naples before declaring? 25% extra cost to core and more expensive province war score cost, no? Also shouldn't you take the costal provinces to start the culture change mission?

[@Pharren88]

It's ok, Chewy has played enough Byz for everyone.

[@DvdAvins]

The Hirsute Hawk Boosts Byzantium!

[@gnarlynarly1350]

take crimea and some other parts of the pontic steppe aswell

[@Zackary1005]

Hell yes brother

[@oneofmanyjames-es1643]

Red Hawk doing Byzantium, Ludi doing Brandenburg, what's next a Laith run of Florence?

[@thegrumpyraccoon]

Real throwback with Balkan bros where he does coop Bosnia/Serbia😅

[@TheRedHawk]

Laith is supposed to to Tunis bruh cmon

[@LSDuke23]

Between you and laith, you guys are doing wild things with your hair, yours is much better than his though