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Byzantine Empire Mega Expansion: Conquer, but Don't Govern
A Let's Play video of the Byzantine Empire in Europa Universalis V. Overcoming the early game crisis "Byzantine Succession", annexing the Ottoman Empire, and conquering Bulgaria. Stabilizing domestic affairs while aiming to expand territory.
1. 📉 Initial Debuffs and Economic Recovery of the Byzantine Empire
- ✅ The Byzantine Empire has significant debuffs and a very difficult economic situation at the start of the game.
- ✅ Constantinople is the main source of income, but it is dysfunctional due to class debuffs, earthquakes, and epidemics.
- ✅ Invest in stability and legitimacy to recover the economy to some extent.
- ⚠️ It is necessary to raise prestige as soon as possible in order to remove the corruption privileges of the classes.
00:00 - 01:16
1. 📉 Initial Debuffs and Economic Recovery of the Byzantine Empire
- ✅ The Byzantine Empire has significant debuffs and a very difficult economic situation at the start of the game.
- ✅ Constantinople is the main source of income, but it is dysfunctional due to class debuffs, earthquakes, and epidemics.
- ✅ Invest in stability and legitimacy to recover the economy to some extent.
- ⚠️ It is necessary to raise prestige as soon as possible in order to remove the corruption privileges of the classes.
01:17 - 01:56
2. 🏛️ Occurrence and Countermeasures for the National Crisis "Byzantine Succession"
- ✅ At the start of the game, the monarch dies, and due to low stability and legitimacy, the classes rebel, and the national crisis "Byzantine Succession" almost certainly occurs.
- ⚠️ This national crisis is almost unavoidable and grants a large debuff.
01:57 - 03:10
3. 🦠 Epidemic Outbreak and Crisis of Internal Strife
- ⚠️ A national disease (epidemic) is spreading, and proper measures cannot be taken in a situation of low stability.
- ⚠️ Due to the change of successor, the previous emperor, who was deemed incompetent due to low stability, goes mad and is granted a debuff.
- ⚠️ The many Byzantine victors complete preparations to cause a rebellion.
03:11 - 04:16
4. 🛡️ Dealing with the Victor Rebellion and Political Reform
- ✅ Since the basic national power is non-existent except for the capital Constantinople, the impact of the victor rebellion is small.
- ⚠️ Because the effect of national reform is weak, it is temporarily changed to a more powerful reform.
- ✅ Use emergency political reforms that can raise royal power to deal with excessively low stability and legitimacy.
04:17 - 04:51
5. 👑 Birth of a New Basileus
- ✅ The regency ends, and a new Basileus (Emperor) is born.
- ✅ The new emperor's abilities are 70 in administration, 43 in diplomacy, and 38 in military, and high administrative ability is appreciated in the current situation.
04:52 - 05:31
6. ⚔️ Suppression of the Victor Rebellion and Rejection of the Aristocracy
- ✅ Suppress the victor rebellion.
- ⚠️ The aristocracy has corrupt privileges, the classes are in a bad mood, and civil war continues.
- ⚠️ People are dying from the plague, and earthquakes are destroying buildings in Constantinople.
05:32 - 06:07
7. 🤝 Building Relationships with Austria and Cooperation with Catholic Nations
- ✅ Improve relations with Catholic nations and form a royal marriage with Austria.
- ✅ Compared to the Fourth Crusade, relations between Byzantium and the Catholics are easier to improve.
- ✅ A minor event occurs, raising legitimacy.
06:08 - 06:36
8. 💥 End of the National Crisis "Succession Crisis" and Occurrence of Independence Rebellion
- ✅ The national crisis ends because the monarch has ascended the throne and the civil war of the succession crisis is over.
- ⚠️ Because the independence rebellion is subordinate to Man (unknown), a one-location rebellion becomes a major war.
06:37 - 07:48
9. ⚔️ War with the Ottoman Empire and Territorial Expansion
- ✅ Declare war to lure out the Ottoman Empire.
- ✅ Cultivate the land taken from the Ottoman Empire and expand the territory.
- ⚠️ The Ottoman Empire has the potential to gain buffs and expand even in lands of different cultures.
07:49 - 08:52
10. 🌍 Annexation of the Ottoman Empire and Stabilization of Domestic Affairs
- ✅ Completely annex the Ottoman Empire.
- ✅ Decades of civil war are over, and the country is stable.
- ✅ Corruption privileges have a negative impact on tax revenue and classes, so action is needed.
08:53 - 09:36
11. 🇧🇬 Invasion of Bulgaria and Territorial Expansion
- ✅ Declare war on Bulgaria and expand the territory.
- ✅ Eliminate the Bulgarian total dumpling seat (conquer Bulgaria almost completely).
- ⚠️ An East Rome event occurs, and stability decreases due to a war without a declaration of war.
09:37 - 10:10
12. 🇪🇬 War with Mamluk Egypt
- ✅ Mamluk Egypt declares war.
- ✅ Because it is a law-hair war, the enemy cannot gain war points unless they capture the Byzantine capital, so they cannot lose.
- ✅ Pour all the money into prestige and end the event you want to suck.
- ✅ In the end, Egypt does not return even once and dies (Egypt retreats without being able to do anything in particular).
10:11 - 10:58
13. 📈 Stabilization of Domestic Affairs and New Problems
- ✅ The current monarch has high abilities other than diplomacy.
- ✅ Some of the domestic debuffs have been removed, but simply put, the uniforms and development have progressed, the tax period board has risen, and income has become stable.
- ⚠️ A huge rebellion occurs.
- ⚠️ When I got annoyed and automated all the completion work, the rebellion suppression I was supposed to have set was removed.