Release Morea, RM them so they dont go disloyal, rival the Ottomans. Nice summary, looks like you have gone through your fair share of Byzantium games :p. That got me thinking that there should be an event were Byzantium could maybe receive some form of aid from them. I have managed to regain my cores and take the majority of the Western coastline of вЂ¦ AQ: surprisingly, Ottoman's preferred ally in so many cases, even though it's great land to conquer. Once Edirne falls you can stop them from crossing into Greece with your navy, even if you were not able to beat their navy head on then you have to split up your entire navy into 1 stacks and start suiciding them to block the ottomans when they try to cross, from being in port in Constantinople to the sea it generally takes 2 days so try to time it to block the ottoman army the day before they cross. This sounded like an awesome opening gambit, but I tested it and ran into a few problems. Traditions: +1 Yearly вЂ¦ If they end up in Anatolia, just block the strait and DoW him for your cores.

Ironically the Roman Empire can reform into the Holy Roman Empire by revoking the privilegia. If the Karamans are dead, you should probably restart. Also, you'll now have around 20k troops at your disposal, while you have only 13-14k when you just have Athens as your vassal. A reformable country is one that does start as an independent nation but if it ceases to exist, then other countries with similar culture may transform into it, adopting their flag, ideas, and identity. 296 ratings-BT Addon: Byzantine Resurgence. I'd obviously like to restore the Roman Empire as well. Keep sieging down everything possible in Europe during the meantime and if the Ottomans allied Crimea you can usually walk up there and take them too to increase war score. That is why EU4 calls it Byzantium because EVERYONE does.

If you were able to defeat their navy then make sure you blockade Edirne to help with the siege. The matter dropped with the fall of Byzantium. The other way to play the Roman Empire is to restore the Roman Empire as Byzantium in Crusader Kings II and converting the save to EU4 using the Europa Universalis 4 Save Converter.

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