EU4 1.33 Byzantium Guide - THIS Is How To ALWAYS WIN

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In this video titled EU4 1.33 Byzantium Guide - THIS Is How To ALWAYS WIN I make an EU4 Guide for Byzantium for Europa Universalis 4 1.33 France. With EU4 1.33 France releasing the meta and the starting moves for many nations on the map has changed, so of course new and up to date guides are needed. This EU4 Byzantium starting moves guide or EU4 Byzantium starting moves tutorial will ensure that you get a great start for yourself playing as the nation of Byzantium. This guide covers the opening moves, defeating The Ottomans, diplomacy, estates, alliances, subjects, missions, national ideas, and more! Byzantium is one of the best nations for blobbing, having a massive army that is also extremely powerful, being extremely rich, dominating trade, restoring The Roman Empire and more! After watching this EU4 Byzantium guide you will ensure a great start for yourself, and you will have an easy and fun campaign. The save file is available for all Tier 1 and above KZbin members in the save-games Discord channel.
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[@TheRedHawk]

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[@fidoruh]

I'd be down to see a Venice game.

[@stefant8877]

can you do a guide for wallachia or moldavia?

[@the_0_]

Be a chad, do a guide for the eastern siberian opm tribes.

[@cyrildepinoy1352]

How about a Karaman guide ?

[@zevelgamer.]

Cornwall

[@josephcola9662]

Alright! Now if only I could get a BYZ game where Austria doesn't get a PU on GREAT BRITIAN AND POLAND, maybe could actually finally reform Rome!

[@AdamSmith-sr3rh]

Feelsbadman

[@GothBoiCliiqz]

In my games GB always pus Muscovy, or Denmark does

[@fatihcetin3183]

Fake "kaisers" scare you? Smh

[@GothBoiCliiqz]

@@fatihcetin3183 fake Kaiser’s?

[@DocsDota]

Not a problem. Just have them as permanent ally and once 1700s kick in move into their dynasty and you'll get PU over EVERYTHING =)

[@josephcola9662]

24:30 For anyone subjugating Wallachia or Moldovia, take a look at their mission trees. They both have a mission where if they occupy the Ottoman capital, they'll impale the Sultan and his son, which is not only metal AF, but can also really help you out by screwing over the Turk's mana generation.

[@jose13neo]

Now I need to do a Wallachia or Moldovia run

[@MrAdamc81]

Playing as Wallachia was one of my favourite games, impaling the Sultan, forming Romania and expanding into Venice and Austria

[@kevinaustin51]

God I love vlad

[@xzardas541]

Byzantium is my favorite nation for restoring rome Just after burgundy with identity crisis, forming france, ireland, scotland, england, sardinia piedmont, two sicilies and finally ending as byzantium in single day, in the process getting so many buffs it turns into unholly nightmarish abomination for next 20 years or so. So yay for byzantium.

[@mansteinchan6763]

why i cant understand what you say

[@xzardas541]

@@mansteinchan6763 My goals are beyond human comprehension. What I'm saying is a strategy of playing as burgundy and forming france as soon as you can to use OP french missions to get PU spain and vassalize poland. And since you are stuck as france waiting for age of absolutism to get those sweet permament buffs from missions you will have fully conquered british isles and italy and most propably murdered ottomans at this point cause france is kinda OP. So why not store bunch of admin and diplo points and reform into every nation you can before ending up as byzantium to gett all thier mission rewards. This creates absurd amount of buffs like 3x rule britania from ireland scotlan and england missions.

[@mansteinchan6763]

@@xzardas541 i read a lot and understand.but thats nosense,you dont must lose france core and cathlic to become byz,thats waste and unnecessary and no interest

[@xzardas541]

@@mansteinchan6763 I never said it is optimal, it is fun tho, and orthodox with byzantine missions is far better than catholic, I can convert so fast that rebels never manage to spawn in newly conquered provinces.

[@Sqancer]

From my experience, ottomans often just move their capital to anatolia if you don't take edirne. Also there is cool trick with the bulgarian separatist - you have to landlock bulgarian cores (owned by ottomans) and force rebels to spawn in your provice (e.g. burgas or silistre) and once the separatist cross the border to the ottoman lands, just release bulgaria as vasal. If the rebels succeeds you gain free lands for your vasal.

[@thecritic860]

That sometimes happened to me, but it usually only happens if everyone starts kicking Ottomans after you do so. If the ai doesn’t, then they shouldn’t. That was my experience at least.

[@arianistvanic6772]

they move their capital if you cut it off from anatolia (taking albania plus bulgarian coast)

[@mypersonalchannel12]

The trigger of it is if you make them landlocked so don't make them landlocked and they won't move their capital.

[@PixelHazlitt]

And in my experience that next location is Hudavendigar if they still have it.

[@eqcr2177]

@@thecritic860 The idea is to force them to spawn in YOUR Bulgarian territories (at 50% or above), they will go to the Ottomans lands (since you forced them to spawn they will be a bigger army) and if you landlocked the area the ottomans cannot get rid of them, eventually they will flip.

[@jannesfransen8303]

Yooo, the red hawk coming in with the real save. I was litterally thinking about starting a byz game earlier today but couldn't find a guide for 1.33. thank you so much!

[@josephcola9662]

2:50 I build a carrack in Constantinople. Being able to naval barrage because of the extra canons makes a massive difference.

[@sIkLeGAMING]

Title: ..THIS is How To ALWAYS WIN first minute: reset

[@TheRedHawk]

Lmao it be like that sometimes

[@jackshepard9784]

I was just looking for an updated Byzantium guide from you the other day, couldn’t find one so I just figured it out lol. Currently working towards my Basileus achievement as we speak 😎

[@LightxHeaven]

Let's go Byzantium! Strengthen the Noble Privilegies!

[@TheRedHawk]

Hell yeah!

[@jeroennienhuis3711]

Worked like a charm, thanks! :D

[@belisarius1453]

thank you, just what i been looking for

[@akademien1]

Great guide and super eazy to execute!

[@gunarliepins]

Great content as always :) There's still that thing about the Baltic Crusader TO guide I've been waiting for though... (and yes, by this point I will continue to ask below every guide video just out of principle, I'm way too committed by now! ;) )

[@andreisabau7829]

Great guide pal!

[@FuzzyStarburst]

I'm a fairly new player, around 100-200 hours. This guide got me into my first Byzantine run. It's 1740, and I'm just a few French provinces away from forming the Roman Empire. Outstanding guide, thanks! My only issue is that my first Ottoman war didn't go nearly as cleanly as yours did, but it worked out anyway.

[@dabkolay]

I literally was waiting for this xd

[@MasonMitchell52]

Due to low content output in CK3 I’m hopping back into EU4 and your guides are amazing man!

[@jeffydude2008]

Nice guide thanks!

[@gothia6515]

27:48 In a situation similiar to this you could also make a border with Karaman to vassalize them for all their juicy cores.

[@foramaro]

99% no aliances in epirus. 5 runs: 3 albania 1 knight 1 pope Wp)

[@matheusGMN]

Perfect timing with Jack Rackham's video of the last emperor of the Byzantine Empire, I left that video already wanting to start an eu4 campaign to dream of what could've been! and this video delivers!

[@mcalkis5771]

Just a minor tweak, be sure to attack Epirus as soon as your 8k stack reaches Athens, because they can get allies on day one.

[@planetarylizard1297]

Yeah, I had the same experience with them. You need to atk early.

[@austin.j.barrett]

Yup, I can attest to this

[@ericsaxon5736]

15:14 I like your first peace deal but I don't generally take Mesambria, since it is both a BYZ and a BUL core and if you release BUL you lose your core. Rather, if you take Silitria, you can release BUL without losing your valuable core in Mesambria. :)

[@dashungrigefeini]

If u take Silistra tho,Edirne is landlocked and Otto's will move their Capital

[@ericsaxon5736]

@@dashungrigefeini I did not say to take both, I said to take Silistria in place of Mesambria. But really, any Bulgarian province is good, as long as you don't take the BYZ core that you then lose immediately.

[@daangoes121]

Just had my first ever good running Byzantium run thanks to this guide

[@RmsOceanic]

Several points of experience: - Epirus' diplomatic situation in December 1444 is a coinflip for me: Either they've rivaled Albania, we cannot rival them, but they're vulnerable; or they rival us and ally someone we can't reach without our navy, often Albania. Definitely doesn't feel like 90%. Also don't forget to enforce their religion to make them more loyal, and harvest prestige before the Ottoman war. - In the first Ottoman war, consider declaring for Thessaly/Selanik (if you're not taking Edirne), or Edirne (if you are). These are the most expensive provinces in war score terms, and by making them the war goal you reduce their cost slightly. Handly if you're trying to squeeze a little more out of it. - Instead of taking Orhid directly from the ottomans, I like to return it to Serbia. It's cheaper in war score to do that, and it means you can immediately make a play for Kosovo. We get a claim on it through missions so if you're feeling confident you can immediately gun for it. - Instead of ten galleys I stick to your old build recommendation of four galleys and two heavies. The heavies give my fleet a surprising amount of depth, and it's useful because other Mediterranean fleets like to throw a few in as well. To enable this, I like to spend 50 admin at the start to improve Constantinople's infrastructure, which not only slightly boosts its output and makes it cheaper to dev, but the shipbuilding time is reduced. It's taken me to the late 16th century before I consider un-improving for gov cap costs. - If you've a spare diplomat, make sure you have some claims on the Aegean islands from Venice and Genoa, in case you have an opportunity to strike against them. Genoa's usually pretty isolated after the Shadow Kingdom, unless they befriended Austria. An annoying part to this is for whatever reason I find Venice very aggressive in converting their greek Orthodox lands, sometimes starting immediately, so by the time I'm ready to fight them I'm fighting for lands with Religious Zeal. But it's important to have the option available to you. It's also often a good way through alliances to snatch Cyprus before the Mamluks get it. - Quantity's a solid choice, but I like Diplomatic as well for an opener. My reasoning is the war score cost reduction, but not to blob harder, it's to have room to grab Cash and Reps from whoever I fight, leaving more money to invest in myself. You may not expand as aggressively as you would with quantity, but you leave yourself a solid heartland. - I've seen others mention it, but if you landlock the Ottoman's Balkan provinces (Take Silvestre for yourself, Orhid to serbia), then spit out Bulgarian separatists, they will drift into Ottoman lands and in five years spit out a completely isolated Bulgaria for you to conquer. This is obviously more expensive in admin points, but it allows you to weaken the Ottomans during your downtime. This can be risky however, since if they get mixed up in a war with Europeans Hungary will inevitably let them march in and siege it from the rebels. No harm in making a backup save if you're attempting this. - In terms of westward expansion, I generally don't bother going further than the Balkans until later in the game, like after absolutism. Once you've got Ragusa locked down Constantinople becomes a great pseudo-endnode for trade, so focusing on the East is a better expenditure of your gov cap. The major exception is if Naples is still in a PU with someone, or have been trimmed down a bit. Either way they become a nice longterm vassal with some rich reconquests for you. And on that front if the Iberian wedding happens as usual, a province of Aragon's to reconquest can be devastating against Spain. Aside from vassals my main western conquests would be Corsica and Rome, mainly for missions.

[@lonerangerv1224]

the province that is the wargoal is not cheaper at all. The casus belli modifiers apply to all eligible provinces.

[@jorikweegenaar7662]

The Bulgarian separatist trick is really nice, but why not take the province back after the separatists sieged it, to spawn Bulgaria as your vassal. This way, the Bulgarian separatists will return the isolated Ottoman provinces to your subject Bulgaria. No risk, full reward :)

[@RmsOceanic]

@@jorikweegenaar7662 You can certainly do that, though in my personal experience the resulting Bulgaria has pretty high liberty desire and will take a while to wrangle under control. Also I save my vassal slots for opportunities, like previously mentioned Naples, an OPM Karaman which makes a great reconquest opportunity later, and definitely Syria when I'm getting into it with the Mamluks.

[@DocsDota]

​@@RmsOceanic I tried this last patch, it's a good strat, just that Bulgaria will be useless to you for a very long time (due to high liberty). But the idea is to save a war against the Ottos by doing this, as Ottomans are going to be completely driven off the balkans within the first war. Plus it prevents any other Balkan nations from taking Bulgarian provinces as they'll flip quite fast before Ottomans completely collapse. This gives you time to even fight a war against Venice or Albania (or both? =O) in the mean while.

[@MrAdamc81]

Some good tips thanks

[@divingdown6173]

I wanted to do a basileus run and red hawk uploads when I need a byz guide, a great day for sure

[@TheRedHawk]

Enjoy!

[@Testimony_Of_JTF]

But this guide is useless for ante bellum...?

[@divingdown6173]

@@Testimony_Of_JTF lmfao, just realized ante bellum was a mod, meant basileus achievement haha

[@Testimony_Of_JTF]

@@divingdown6173 Oh ok then

[@Alexrocksdude_]

I'd love to see a Norway guide, it has so much potential to become a viking empire!

[@danielupton3734]

Thanks so much, beat Ottos first try with this guide, didn't go quite as well as your war but I'm bankruptcy free and got my cores back

[@ValensBellator]

**War with Epirus ends** “I did forget to mention you should rival Epirus before the war is done” Dang man you know video editing is a thing right? I forgot to rival them too!! 😂

[@motsuwu]

"I've been looking forward to this" -Count Dooku

[@AVUJonas]

lol seems like you beat me to it :(

[@Fabioonn]

Thanks good strategie

[@truegamer_007]

I swear to god red hawk, I just started a Byzantium game yesterday with your 1.31 guide 😂 and now you do this

[@Spoontamer4]

I was literally playing as Byzantium earlier today having problems with it and I found no 1.33 guides You're fucking amazing Red Hawk :D

[@Sulidaire]

Forts while in war? What the hell? The AI is like my ex in 1.33 - super defensive and fights take forever

[@user-zg4bk6rv1q]

I had a war with austria today and it literally took me 7-10 years to win because they had over 20 forts and we had only 3-4 battles because the AI kept running away because of how much weaker their army was

[@darthrevan618]

Oh hey nice i just had my first successful Byzantine campaign a few weeks ago as well :D

[@Zerotexful]

Good guide . finnally made with 1.33 thanks @the red hawk

[@SlayerJustro]

Bro I was literally searching everywhere for a good updated Byzantium guide, I watched your older one and got annoyed because somethings didn't work anymore. Thank you so much for posting and updated guide literally a day later!

[@Bruh-ff2tw]

For third idea group I like influence. You do a LOT of vassal feeding as Byzantium, so influence will help out quite a bit. I also do a lot of culture converting since the gothic culture group is tiny. So the policy from Religious + influence combined with religious culture means even high dev provinces can be converted for ~10 diplo mana.

[@ellyheartfilia4417]

If you want to see your loans in 1.33 hover over the icon at the top that tells you you have outstanding loans, it will list them individually.

[@Banne7722]

Tried my first time since forever with Byz. Worked perfectly on first try in Ironman (1.34). Could pay off all debts with the gold from the first war. Thanks!

[@isaacandersen1]

In my run roades got rebels and flipped to me as well, I think it’s just a symptom of the knights not having the troops to fight the revolt, or the intelligence to raise autonomy.

[@gfmendesfernando]

Love your content man! Can I make a suggestion on a topic for another video? For newbies like me, it would be really useful to know what game mechanics it is okay to abuse, in order to have a really good performance...such as loans, diplo relations, overextension, corruption, unrest, war exaustion...you know? Like...for me, I am really square in my gameplay, and always try to not be in debt, nor exceed diplo slots and so on... Anyway, keep up the good work dude

[@space318]

basically, loans: try not to take 4% unless necessary. if possible use burgher loans whenever you can. dip rel depends on your situation. ideally at or under capacity but sometimes its worth it to go over. oe, if you can handle it, it literally means nothing. if you dont want death stick below 100. corruption is terrible bc of all powers cost among other things. unrest doesnt really matter if you have a strong enough army and kill all your rebels (hand in hand with oe) war exhaustion can get nasty if out of hand but most of the time you really dont need to worry about it unless youre needing to core a ton of land and you have very high war exhaustion. ae is just a number. dont be afraid to use burgher loans for necessary expenses like building buildings to improve economy or build army if needed and etc.

[@delbar5606]

Suggestion: make epirus ally genoa, and take both genoa and epirus out. after that, you attack the ottomans as they attack another minor and have their forces in anatolia, so you should annex the islands owned by genoa and make the ottomans siege it down. when they start attacking those provinces use your fleet to lock them it those islands and then you can start attacking anatolia

[@9EscFan5]

I have followed your guide for 80/90%. I was lucky to stackwipe one of their 'European' armies while the other was locked in Anatolia. I did this without naval barraging (I did not go for the extra ships). I was even nice enough to give Albania and The Knights their cores. My economy also did not get that hurt. I also took 'Expansionist Zealotry', which might have helped defeating their stacks (together with the morale of armies advisor). This all only took 5 or 6 restarts. Thank you for the guide!

[@PixelHazlitt]

Karaman into Rûm was a slog in this patch. It took me until 1601 to finally finish off the Ottomans. Venice was the only country to attack and take land outside of myself and it didn’t help that Austria was PUd early by France (crazy right?) Bohemia blobbed into Hungary hard. Timmy is a gigantic paper tiger. Having the Mamluks as a ally goes a mile to keeping them out of Anatolia.

[@seltin1988]

would you ever do a walkthroug/let's play of this nation? would love to see all of the old empire reunited :)

[@henkslaaf3738]

You can also attack Ragusa to drag the Ottoman in. Then the war is still on your terms and can peace Otto out or reset truce to 5 years.

[@pewpewsamurai09]

Thanks for doing what I requested (yes I did request this)

[@poopface1929]

This guide is great for the crucial early game conquest against the Ottomans and establishing a strong foothold in Europe. I'd really like to see one focused on mid game AKA containment of Spain as they can get some early conquests that make some of the missions almost impossible once they've snowballed to number 1 world power (which they will with the Ottos out of the way).

[@papifear]

Great guide! I just started playing eu4 a few days ago and I got super lucky on my 2nd war as the Ottomans had just finished fighting rebels and had only ~14k troops and 0 manpower so I got to win the war without fighting a single army :P I did mess up a little as both the Hungarians and Austrians wouldnt ally me for some reason so I allied Bohemia. Maybe it's because I got lucky but I still think this was 1000x easier than unifying Japan (which I couldn't do on Normal and had to change the difficulty to easy XD)

[@mansteinchan6763]

prepare you play Majapahit+shogun，its beutiful

[@AM-id3xz]

Nice, Probably my most successful game ever was Aragon, I vassalised Byzantium, beat the hell out of the ottomans and released Bulgaria, very successful game and I partly followed your Aragon guide

[@EpicIEO]

guau this guide avtually worked, even for me, im ultra content... father bless red hawk

[@abrahama1268]

This is my second try, in the first, the one I'm about to dump, austria became dominant towards me, albania allied austria and was guaranteed by venice, venice declared war upon me, then the ottos did the same, then austria came too, I know that with some effort could still be a good campaing, but I'm resetting this shit now. Anyways a GOD guide btw, thank you very much Mr Hawk.

[@andrewbecker3656]

I find it so weird when I think huh I might try "said country" everytime I look on youtube for a guide its only maybe at most 2 days old! Great minds think alike I guess! good guide keep it up!

[@MrExorbitus]

nice tutorial! i tried it a couple of times and it might need an update since 1.34 is out. epirus for instance is constantly allied to someone

[@derQuik]

If you have Epirus as Vasall u can give the estate Strong Duchies

[@AVUJonas]

Count Dooku: I've been looking forward to this..

[@epictrollface51]

If you stand in edirne and keep your fleet in the Sea of Marmara you can usually bait their ally or their smaller stack into gallipoli and then wipe it using the ships. Just make sure to not keep your ships docked for too long or Athens/Epirus will put their ships there

[@HazmanFTW]

Whoa, Budget Monk, you're sounding different today xD

[@electron6423]

I really cant wait to end with the military duty and go play eu4😍

[@grimandflinwow]

Good Tip - If you want to keep alb or the knights as allies after not giving land, after the war you should have around 20 favours, you can spend 10 of them to increase trust, and that will prevent them from leaving as a ally.

[@Vekhh]

Well im starting to watching but i wanted to say that I ineed suceeded to go up in a first (and another wars) as Byzantium but already on this 1.33 patch and using guides for 1.31 - you also did that guide. And yeah pretty quickly i noticed that they must've noticed all those guides which were basically on the same rules and changed Ottomans behaviour. The longest siege were in Macedon - Selenik or smth - my war goal but luckly my ottoman AI didnt build any of forts (or didnt suceeded). I didnt took as much land as I wanted but it gave me position to win another wars (but also unluckly - Inflation, corruption and ottoman's allies that made 2nd war with ottomans even harder). But as I said - I managed to pull it off even having out of data guides. It showes that usually the patch changes arent that great and MOSTLY if u stay around the main points of ur plan in guide and if u have a brain and do it all carefully, save often - then u can pull it off. PS: I watched all 1.31 guides but the one with I was the closest was BudgetMonk's guide because rest of the guides had estates privilages i didnt wanted or couldnt do and because i dont have almost no DLC. I was focused on navy dominance, at fast sieging Thessalonikae and blocking strait for Ottomans but that didnt succeeded bcs of the prolonged first siege.

[@DocsDota]

For the first war, have you considered letting anatolian armies march through and siege your greek provinces one by one then locking them so you can stackwipe them? Do it twice or thrice will empty their manpower pool for a fast 100%. Then you can even give knight's 100% provinces so they take anatolian provinces before you siege down their lands again.

[@shalom_-fk7hn]

we need byzantium guides every patch

[@mfcrocker]

The Rhodes thing happened to me too (in 1.34), such a weird one!

[@enzo110]

Kinda surprised you aren't going for influence/diplo here since the vassal game is gonna be crazy

[@derk1310]

Could you do a Trebizond guide anytime soon?

[@sega616]

Someone make a time machine and get this man to serve as the new Belisarius.

[@DeWellstein]

Tried this method, won the first war, but was stuck in -3 stability, a broken economy and a peasants war. gonna retry it with a mix between my own and your method. mine usually consisted of having allies to the ottomans east and west, forcing them to split their forces

[@analogGigabyte]

Pretty crazy to watch these while living in Athens in real life and knowing all that complicated history

[@davidhunters1717]

the thumbnails look so juicy recently

[@aidan8698]

Nice touch adding Maurice in the thumbnail. Poor guy had 5 of his sons executed right in front of him before he himself was executed.

[@DarthHippygaming]

I used the 1.32 guide but had a hard time. Ill be able to get the Pentarchy but no Mare Nostrum.

[@TheRedHawk]

That guide isn't relevant anymore! I hope this one can help you!

[@DarthHippygaming]

@@TheRedHawk It would have I'm at like 1715 and marching into Alexandria and Rome.

[@martinaustin6230]

@@DarthHippygaming You have a 100 years. Plenty of time to do Mare Nostrum.

[@HungTran-nk6bj]

In the first war peace deal you can force religion on epirus, it only has 9 warscores

[@sityqwai]

In my game as Byz I was kinda guy of good luck - Ottomans declared war on Candar so all of their armies were on Anatolia and I even didn't have to fight them. Also they build a fort in Kesriye and it's actually good because it gives more warscore. And it was really cool thing that they allied Crimea - my allies just sieged it and I managed to get 90 warscore.

[@gyarurespecter3386]

One of the most weirdly satisfying things in EU4 is getting a crapton of low 20-something ducats loans, then winning wars and paying them all in quick succession after getting loads of money from expanding.

[@ericboutilier1545]

Yooooo thanks Hawk ❤ Been struggling as BYZ for a looonngg time. I'd recommend an Oman game in... America?

[@ericboutilier1545]

🇴🇲

[@jonathan.171]

I got lucky in my recent Byzantium campaign because for some reason a huge amount of ottoman soldiers died in their war with Candar and Karaman, so I didn't have to hire as many mercenaries to beat them, and i never had to go bankrupt after the war because of that.

[@Evan_30]

22:22, I've been seeing OPM Byzantium surviving in Rhodes a lot in this patch.

[@Nhadaly]

I personally prefer the religious ideas as the byzantines. The conversions, boosted by your national ideas and your massive tolerance of the true faith will help keep rebels down. The holy war/cleansing of heresy cb is amazing too, it feels like you're playing a horde.

[@khalidgagnon8753]

Thank you for this guide. Thanks to it and probably 50-or-so tries I have a new problem; How to keep my junior partner (Hungary) from breaking away. Decent upgrade in problems lol 😆

[@toko099o]

I think 1.33 is a good patch to look at Ming. They added so you can spend mandate to make your tributaries into vassals using mandate. It feels like a better use for mandate, but that could just be because I've never heard of a good reason to pass the reforms.

[@caiofhoepfner8491]

Ming AI still weak.A time playing as Portugal i reached China and they was brocken in thousands of nations

[@toko099o]

​@@caiofhoepfner8491 I did an Oda game not too long after commenting this. When I read the change to the mandate I got it in my head that you would be able to change tributaries to vassals for free. I was sorely disappointed when I found out that its more or less something to spend mandate on when you are at the end of the tree. The mandate is still a trap because the only major gain you get from it is massive cores and claims in China with massive drawbacks for expanding quickly. The rate that you can make vassals is way too slow to make an impact in the late game (when you get the ability). If it worked like revoke in the HRE or the last tick in the mandate made so you no longer get debuffs for low mandate I could see grabbing it as worth while, but its just not. Ming is still pretty good in the hands of the player, but I don't think Ming will be able to do much with the way the mandate requires you to think about it. The AI just isn't set up to be able to balance pushing, defending, and upgrading the way the mandate requires the holder to act. My guess is this won't be addressed because the changing of dynasties is something that happened in the era that the game takes place in, but from a gameplay perspective it would be neat to need to fight a colonizing China.

[@hampushallgern797]

At 14:35 you say of you can have enough warscore to take Edirne you should, but earlier you say that you stand firm in your view that you shouldnt take it. Which one is it?

[@bekzhanshamshat9457]

Hi Red Hawk👋🏼 Great guide👍 What about Serbia guide for 1.33? Couldn’t find proper video. Hope you will make it.😁(btw I just failed my campaign after the war with Ottomans. 150k Austia, Poland and me vs 80k ottos)

[@clixxlol7457]

hey, i done it without any lone :D, build the fleet like you said, all ships finished, otto attacks dulkadir and moved both stacks to the other side, waited 2 month, 11 units + 4 units free company, attack on 01.01.1448, Naval barrage, 31.01.1448 siege finished :D not a single loan :D

[@pira707]

yea you just have to get lucky and hope that the ottos declare on dulk. works 100% of the time when ottomans attack dulkadir.

[@kylekeiper4514]

One small nitpick - I don't think you have to move your trader back to Constantinople to do the Hostile Trading edict; Ottomans have a trader in Aleppo, too, so if you set Hostile Trading in Aleppo, it still gives you +25% spy network construction against the Ottomans. Gives you *slightly* more trade power since you have two transfers to home node instead of just one.

[@kylekeiper4514]

Another one is don't take back your Bulgarian core - you'll lose that core when you release Bulgaria as a vassal. Instead, take it for yourself in the Bulgarian reconquest war for yourself.

[@simonmalund]

Time to restore the roman empire

[@ungaoogabooga8388]

The way i play early war with ottomans is get enough allies were ottomans will attack someone in anatolia and then when they do i declare war and siege their europe possessions, then i bait their army into constanople were you can stack wipe then siege anatolia

[@GuyFawkes1]

Is it worth it to use the dev meta in this region (Balkans and Anatolia)? I am just testing something different and wanted another opinion. Eco + Quantity first 2 ideas and the other dev modifiers

[@PMilk151]

Any reason you didn't use strong douchies to fix your vassals' liberty desire/your low relation limit?

[@eqcr2177]

Hmmm... On the second war with Ottomans, DO NOT reconquest for Edirne if you are not returning a bunch of (Bulgaria's cores), just conquest so you don't pay extra Diplo. cost if all you can only get your one core back.

[@Mr_Valentin.]

Neuron activated 😵

[@ValensBellator]

I've reformed the old roman borders with byzantium before, but they didn't have the new mission trees yet. I was thinking about hurrying down into egypt this time and trying out a colonization approach of indonesia and such. I wonder if that's feasible? I've admittedly never fully mastered trade... it just seems like there's too many nodes to influence to really control it.

[@TheMercyfulEmperor]

Honestly seizing Rila monasteries for yourself is a great tactic. +10% religious unity is so great given you're fighting heathens constantly

[@kindadumb916]

Welp, time to play the Byzantines again. I swear beating the ottomans is like a drug

[@alexcyr4149]

If I play your save game does that still allow for achievements?

[@Andy_Dufrain]

Thanks for the video. Could you tell me please, what is the reason of assaulting the Kocaeli in the first war with Ottomans? If I'm not planning to go to Anatolia during the first war there is no need in it, correct? Ottomans will take it back in any case. Plus it is the loss of 50 Militart Power points during barraging + assaulting.

[@Khetzy]

Please do a 1.33 Persian Guide

[@yothitweeling9691]

What do you see? Good content.