I restored WEST ROME to former GLORY in EU4!

[@TheSocialStreamers]

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[@thespanishinfluenza6047]

Takeicus a showericus

[@Mayor912]

@@thespanishinfluenza6047 touchius grassius

[@chriskeddie4226]

Great campaign Laith, you're making Redhawk proud with your sweaty war strats

[@henryroberts7297]

MORE!!! (Please)

[@violet8254]

Hey! Listen!

[@whaleofdarkness]

Don't worry. Rebellions everywhere are historically accurate for Rome so you are on the right track.

[@9fh099]

Historically accurate would be being annexed by the Ostrogoths

[@whaleofdarkness]

@@9fh099 Yeah, but even before the Migration Period Rome had rebellion after rebellion after rebellion. It's a wonder that Rome lasted as long as it did.

[@jtmatusiak4091]

@@whaleofdarkness yeah but most of those rebellions were done by would be Emperors so when they won they just took over. Also most of the Empire was Romanized and thus few wanted to break free.

[@Iamwtfboi]

How many civil wars did rome go through?

[@anormalperson7560]

"I'm reclaiming Rome I cant play right now!" Laith 2022

[@henryglennon3864]

"Burn, bin. Burn!" Laith 2021, allegedly

[@robertalaverdov8147]

A masters degree is a small accomplishment compared to restoring the glory of Rome.

[@_oceanstar]

"The Barbaricate is the name sometimes used to refer to the period in West Roman history between the reconquest of Ostrogothic Pannonia in 479 and the recapture of Central Italy, including the former capitals of Ravenna and Rome, in 565. The Barbaricate was defined by the controversial policy begun under Julius Nepos of subjugating the formerly Romanized tribes of Goths and Germans along the Rhine, Danube, and, in later years, Vistula, rivers; some of whose territory lay outside of lands traditionally held by the Roman Empire. This strategy was employed to amass the manpower and wealth required to retake the core territories of Italy; however, the increasingly Germanic dominance within the realm, as well as its status as a rump state, led to its legitimacy as the Western Roman Empire being questioned in the eastern Byzantine Empire. with the Reconquest of Rome from Odovacer's Italian Kingdom in 565, the Byzantine Emperor Leo III finally recognized the emperors of the Barbaricate as legitimate; however, from this point onward, the two halves of the Roman Empire were increasingly distant politically. The modern term *Barbaricate* ultimately derives from Latin *Barbaricum,* referring to the regions to the north beyond Roman control, which can be further divided into Sarmatia and Germania. The word was first used to refer to the realm by Byzantine authors as a pejorative term, mocking the Germanization of the Empire. This was adopted by later historians and modified into a historiographic term." Ripped from a (hypothetical) Wikipedia article on this period of history

[@jamjar6494]

Well written, now my brain’s thinking of cool alt history scenarios

[@radec5437]

good work!

[@_oceanstar]

@@jamjar6494 Late Antiquity has so many interesting “What-If” moments; one of my favorites is what would’ve happened had Emperor Majorian succeeded in reconquering Africa

[@leov4404]

This is so cool

[@tiringsarcasm]

@@_oceanstar That would have given the west a major source of food in order to supply a larger army and the people under their control.

[@ogerpinata1703]

Ah yes, the western Roman empire. Stretching from Illyria to the Baltic sea 😂

[@felipeh6012]

That moment at 11:07 when Western Rome looked more like the Austro-Hungarian Empire with a french extension

[@ididntaskforthat8208]

Stronk Rome

[@sybrandwoudstra9236]

''They have about 70.000 troops here and we have 20.000 to defend with.'' He is basically awakening his inner Svetozar Boroević von Bojna

[@isaak_komnenos]

That’s how my Austria usually looks if I leave them alone for too long

[@DD-nb9rn]

Scuffed Rome be like: owns Czechia; Slovakia; Slovenia; Croatia; Austria; Hungary; most of Romania; Pomerania; Normandy; Northeast France; Rhineland but not Italy, Gaul, Sicily, Corsica, Iberia

[@Harsh-tf9he]

its just the inverse of rome

[@ihatemondays6969]

Cursed Austria-Hungary is calling

[@andreiiglesia2813]

Early HRE

[@jamesmoran7391]

Out off all the cursed things in this video gothic italy having a napoleonic era flag has to be the most cursed off them all

[@pedropagliacci3108]

West Romans embraced their exile and in revenge started conquering the lands the barbarians came from, very poetic.

[@italianpc4119]

Great Video, one of the best campaigns you've done imo, hyped for the next!

[@Rohitshawarma45]

BASED TERRK MOMENT

[@mohammedrefaat5506]

19:00 laith having an existential crisis cracked me

[@decayingbrain7494]

Loving the campaign, can't wait for part 3!

[@darthceasar3690]

laith just destroy german tribe left and right while almost left italy untouch lmao

[@thehighhegemon2199]

30:29 “We are a large empire, but that is counteracted by the fact we are trading in wine.“ That knocked me out 😂😂

[@gimesibalazs2249]

Your Habsburg empire have a weird colour and its missing its Spanish part.

[@CooltasticOG]

Weird that they're called "West Rome" instead of Austria for some reason.

[@WERTYUIO821]

@@CooltasticOG Holy Roman Empire: Yeah... . Pretty weird and no one has ever done that before...

[@SnapplyPie]

A part 2? Thats illegal!

[@antorseax9492]

I think there was an episode where SS Laith said there was definitely going to have a part two. As I remember (so, don't trust this), he lied.

[@amogus948]

Inspired by these couple of videos I tried your same run. Other than the countless rebels and the big tribes collapsing after each war, there was a big surprise with a huge Byzantium who started expanding in Poland and Bohemia regions and now they are about to reach Pommerania. Hopefully the historical friends modifier will save me until I eat France and Italy (I decided to not have allies to make the game more interesting)

[@wyndhamfreeman1489]

I would love to see you reform Rome. That is why I am commenting for engagement.

[@yaboi4220]

From Cursed to Blessed? More like from Cursed to even more Cursed

[@DoggoDutchman]

Comment for the algorithm so he has to play even more

[@isaacandersen1]

Honestly this is one of my favorite series, just because it seems challenging without being impossible or preventing you from progressing.

[@denisklemont2540]

I'd give up my degree to have bragging rights of beating Florryworry.

[@brycecohen7691]

I really want to see this series finished by you taking out the Byzantines :O

[@maxkaufmann833]

You're doing your best and it shows. Good stuff man.

[@HyperScorpio8688]

Yes GIVE US MORE!!

[@SereglothIV]

24:24 Watching this in December 2023, it feels so weird to see only 2 possible reforms at each tier. Good to see the game develop even after 10 years.

[@GoGreenBasti]

We need more Romeeeeeeeeee Jabba the Hutt will not be satisfied MOREEEEEEEE

[@refreshingryan]

Me: skips ahead a few minutes “And that was the story of how I got submitted to a psychiatric ward for masochism” Me: what the hell did I miss?!

[@bigloopsie]

West rome did have that much glory..

[@oliveranderson50]

We love watching you earn a win!

[@rizzgubstjr8577]

Really like this series, would love a part 3!

[@shades-ofhistory]

That's so cool, even cooler if the thumbnail borders could relate to the actual video

[@lol_histicall4289]

This has got to be my favorite EU4 extended timeline campaign

[@programmingwithian]

Just ally the Byzantines!

[@birb4121]

In the first video he said that he will never ally Byzantines for a chalange

[@thanatosexcelsior3711]

@@birb4121 lmao u know hes joking?

[@Neoplasie1900]

Gotta say, every time you say "forts" I have to giggle a bit since it sounds exactly like the German word for fart ("Furz"). Besides solid play! Thanks for going through the torture for us

[@ihatemondays6969]

West Rome at the end of the last video is basically just a really early Austria-Hungary with northern France

[@kirgan1000]

No I know how the Roman Emperor did feel in the twilight of the Roman Empire, babarians and rebbels all over the place.

[@Macloom84]

Love this series!

[@serdikcraig6307]

Alright one more lets see it

[@DylanKnighting]

3:15 Now I want to see your CV cause I reckon about 5% of it will cover your academic achievements

[@comb-t]

You were saying about how you aren't really west because most of your land is East of Rome, and you aren't particularly roman since you again, don't own much roman land and the operations of the nation aren't as empire-like as Rome. What you are is Roach Rome. Just determined to survive, which in complete fairness has been greatly successful especially considering it isn't in a constant pool of debt. Surprisingly economically stable if nothing else. It's a very hype campaign, quite enjoyable & i think better than if you had done soissons - the comedy of western rome basically avoiding the traditional roman heartland is great.

[@Christian_Sannino]

Return of a legend

[@Thereihmapper-og2bz]

8:05 the 11 battles of the Isonzo be like:

[@Harsh-tf9he]

Are there mods that add more content to extended timeline? I feel like that would be great, like premedieval Italy having a mission tree where, you sort of replace Western Rome, Western Rome itself having a mission tree that allows for incredible snowballing but a very hard start, events related to actual events of the period and some alternate history events, like one of the Roman nations, byz or Western Rome taking Rome, the people of Rome see the chi-ro (Or whatever that symbol is called) on the banners of the soldiers sieging the city so they just let the western/eastern romans in and it cedes the province, maybe if western Rome still exists to 600, a lot of countries that occupy historical roman provinces get separatists for Western Rome. Basically, cool snowballing for a alternate reality

[@danieljarlskov3549]

There is a expanded mission mod to the extended timeline. I believe its called "Extended Timeline Expanded Missions"

[@Harsh-tf9he]

@@danieljarlskov3549 lets GOOOOOOO, now i only just need to pay 400 dollars to buy eu4!

[@whyops]

@@danieljarlskov3549 That mod makes the game crash while loading.

[@MyUsersDark]

Moving the capital at the end made me happy.

[@Quickshot0]

You certainly took a difficult challenge here, but at this point it seems like you're starting to get things increasingly under control. Definitely seems interesting, though I wonder if you'll end up slowly eating up more of Germany just to keep them from continuing their attacks. Or at least to get a more narrow front like Denmark.

[@quadcannon]

*hooded Roman appears* "Do it. Unite Rome again."

[@maestroguru96]

Dude,you are good at border goring.

[@lawrencevanafrika9898]

Would love to see you reform Rome. I think you deserve it. Also before you got Rome I think your name should have been "North of Rome". Another thing ally the Sassianid?

[@l.e.a.d.761]

Looks like it's coming up Rome!

[@DekuTheDestroyer]

We need a part 3

[@serecunoaste3405]

Thanks a lot!

[@martinromerostrack9138]

"from cursed to blessed" You lied me, Connor! -character from a certain android game

[@thepowerofluck2432]

I remember I tried doing my own west Rome restoration but then I got hit by an event that lost me a lot of cores so I gave up. I think I was almost finished too, I think I almost taken all of Iberia, most if not all Italy, and pretty much just the England section of Britain. But then the event happened and I lost all my cores on land I already had such as all of Spain and England. And by then the overextension would essentially have made me need to redo all my conquering

[@yeehawjones1230]

Sometime, you should play the CK2 mod When the World Stopped Making Sense; it's set around this time period.

[@ricardoandre7049]

Laith I sincerely hope that after you achieve the west Roman borders you make vassals in the lands who were not part of the Roman empire. This would efectevely symbolize the foederaty system rome used in their borders. And also make the map more beautiful. Anyway good video. I hope for more

[@oliverthomas-couch]

This is getting out of hand, now there are two of them

[@ohNojames]

I love when it dawned on him he was bigger than Italy lol

[@affe137]

tbf winnig against florryworry is more impressive than degree, he is fkn insane at eu4

[@thanatosexcelsior3711]

Yo instead of going to go search for who the allies are manually, you can just click on their flag in the declear war screen and move over to them

[@HannahHäggAutisticTransWoman]

The Soissons have missions to take all of both western and eastern roman empire , btw soissons can reform west rome as well

[@IquonYT]

Lets go, Granada one next

[@danielr3587]

yes its back!!!

[@ousamadearudesuwa]

annihilating Hannover is something Laith would do

[@goledmohammed7974]

This campaign is literally expanding through defensive wars and few offensive conquest

[@adiletbeyshekeyev]

more like North Rome and Byzantium

[@royalhyena66]

Part 3 PLEASE!!!

[@darthhatall6961]

This series is so good! Keep doing this videos please!

[@copyrightclaim3541]

Instead of Austro-Hungary, your man just gonna form the E.U instead!

[@thanatosexcelsior3711]

3:10 lmao

[@christianharvey2030]

Ah yes, the famous Austro-hungarian-roman empire!

[@Lord-Phantom]

Western Rome will be Western Europe before too long. Also if you wipe out the remaining barbarians, no more insta lose province wars.

[@mathieujuteau952]

Playing as Soisson is a way more easy. Soisson and Altava can restore west rome, but only soisson is roman culture.

[@synthelione3714]

Laith - I'm reclaiming the roman empirr I can't play! Laith - Does everything, conquers countless counties, but makes almost zero actual progress towards reclaiming any roman cores.

[@synthelione3714]

Well, for most of the video, at least.

[@imme8471]

For the glory pf Rome

[@nicholasoneal1521]

Great, now reform the Roman Empire!

[@justWestofJune]

Last time i was this early Laith didnt cheat

[@MisterPogman]

You know, soissons has a mission tree 😅

[@viorp5267]

AMAZING, FUCK YES

[@IronWolf123]

You should conquer Britain as an Anglo-Saxon duchy and convert England to the one true culture.

[@zelguy2363]

This empire should really be called North ROME

[@vortex_william]

Hope this gets even more likes and views and forces laith to restore the Roman Empire

[@johnamells1676]

MOOOAAAARRRR ROME!!!

[@hashimbokhamseen7877]

please more of this

[@peytondrews703]

Doing Caesar's work

[@satoshikamiya4636]

Can you explain more about what the special CB is? Why do the countries get rekt whenever they declare on you and fail?

[@Terrados1337]

more. More! MORE!!!

[@ComposeALot]

The Ch at the beginning of Chalcedonian makes a 'k' sound.

[@djdjukic]

It's literally an "H", Halkedonian

[@thesenate7954]

19:22 you are the Austro-Hungarian empire, but more roman

[@zachmoore6084]

Alright, we got our part 2. Now…where’s part 3?

[@Nalumah]

Liked and subscribed just to be part of the masses forcing you to continue this shit.

[@linkclank4961]

Ah yes, the east of Rome empire

[@sarahlynn7807]

Poggers episode

[@blueeurope]

WE WANT PART 3 (obviously)

[@georgeknowles7504]

Honestly I think culture converting to Germanic and forming Charlemagne's borders would be cooler, seeing as you more or less wiped out the Franks anyway

[@punkmaster4718]

Only commenting so you make another video on this play through

[@lemondelbosque7702]

You are the Henry Cavill of the EU4 community.

[@HannahHäggAutisticTransWoman]

These videos are fun remember to take over all of both western Rome and eastern Rome make sure Byzantium/ east rome doesn exisit anymore aswell.

[@МаксимПономарев-х3ф]

I am wondering - why not create a vassal in the north?