After 4 YEARS I FINALLY Played Byzantium In EU4

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  • @TheRedHawk
    @TheRedHawk  Місяць тому +220

    Let me know if you want to see part 2!

  • @ardbzfun
    @ardbzfun Місяць тому +320

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

    • @gabrielclark1425
      @gabrielclark1425 Місяць тому +28

      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
      @gheorghitaalsunculitei9146 Місяць тому +19

      Look closer! It's an orthodox sultanate!

    • @kvin96
      @kvin96 Місяць тому +9

      Orthomans confirmed

  • @Yes-qj4bi
    @Yes-qj4bi Місяць тому +458

    The haircut bro, very fire.

    • @clony3094
      @clony3094 Місяць тому +21

      Its a nice contrast to Laith's chaotic hair

    • @the_niss
      @the_niss Місяць тому +12

      Without my glasses, redhawk and laith slowly becoming one

    • @amuujin5937
      @amuujin5937 Місяць тому +8

      like, actually, bro is hot

    • @peterscott4715
      @peterscott4715 Місяць тому +3

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

    • @vitbur
      @vitbur Місяць тому +3

      Shaved was way better

  • @JustAwesomeAndRatedR
    @JustAwesomeAndRatedR Місяць тому +90

    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.

  • @Scott-en-tot
    @Scott-en-tot Місяць тому +88

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

    • @90skidcultist
      @90skidcultist 26 днів тому +1

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

  • @BogdanAriasu
    @BogdanAriasu Місяць тому +143

    Finally some love for THE Roman Empire

    • @BasileosHerodou
      @BasileosHerodou Місяць тому +1

      The byzantine empire*

    • @p.r.o.d9685
      @p.r.o.d9685 Місяць тому +18

      ​@@BasileosHerodou Eastern Roman Empire*

    • @cedricl.marquard6273
      @cedricl.marquard6273 Місяць тому +1

      ​@@p.r.o.d9685 Isn't that the same?

    • @p.r.o.d9685
      @p.r.o.d9685 Місяць тому +9

      @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
      @cedricl.marquard6273 Місяць тому

      @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

  • @mateuszchoda5560
    @mateuszchoda5560 Місяць тому +16

    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.

  • @thegrumpyraccoon
    @thegrumpyraccoon Місяць тому +237

    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
      @حسینموسوی-ه9غ Місяць тому +16

      Yeah they just suck without dlcs

    • @harcoom
      @harcoom Місяць тому +14

      Guys we have to pray EU5 will be different.

    • @harcoom
      @harcoom Місяць тому +5

      Literally pray

    • @jean-edouardahmedozzi6120
      @jean-edouardahmedozzi6120 Місяць тому +20

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

    • @Dakotaidk
      @Dakotaidk Місяць тому +5

      I still play imperator rome 😊

  • @Dederlys
    @Dederlys Місяць тому +19

    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
      @90skidcultist 26 днів тому

      It’s basically Roman Empire into Rome Empire…

  • @SRWG9001
    @SRWG9001 Місяць тому +7

    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.

  • @barbadoskado2769
    @barbadoskado2769 Місяць тому +50

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

  • @tigrosabertooth4757
    @tigrosabertooth4757 Місяць тому +12

    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
      @liamreitsma5312 29 днів тому +1

      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
      @tigrosabertooth4757 29 днів тому +2

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

  • @Pedro159TT
    @Pedro159TT Місяць тому +27

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

  • @DaedricGod
    @DaedricGod Місяць тому +11

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

  • @SharpieLEET
    @SharpieLEET Місяць тому +18

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

    • @tigrosabertooth4757
      @tigrosabertooth4757 Місяць тому +2

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

    • @xOdySx
      @xOdySx Місяць тому

      Bm?​@@tigrosabertooth4757

    • @dorktriogamer2865
      @dorktriogamer2865 Місяць тому

      ​@@tigrosabertooth4757 Who the hell's bm?

    • @tigrosabertooth4757
      @tigrosabertooth4757 Місяць тому +1

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

  • @bobboo101
    @bobboo101 Місяць тому +14

    Retract right to inheritance exists, please use it

  • @iliastephnadze
    @iliastephnadze Місяць тому +6

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

  • @rsgr8nbed55
    @rsgr8nbed55 4 дні тому

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

  • @polarischris5812
    @polarischris5812 Місяць тому +1

    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 :)

  • @danplocinski9273
    @danplocinski9273 Місяць тому

    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.

  • @elbast0
    @elbast0 Місяць тому +1

    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.

  • @SpyBehindYou
    @SpyBehindYou Місяць тому +2

    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

  • @Dimwitland
    @Dimwitland Місяць тому

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

  • @helmuthgruber647
    @helmuthgruber647 Місяць тому

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

  • @BINKAIMA
    @BINKAIMA 20 днів тому

    Nice video Hawk! Enjoyed it a lot!

  • @KingKongveal
    @KingKongveal Місяць тому

    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!

  • @АндрійМалярчук-ю5ф
    @АндрійМалярчук-ю5ф Місяць тому

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

  • @Ginkgarbor
    @Ginkgarbor Місяць тому

    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! 😎

  • @taylorknight9161
    @taylorknight9161 Місяць тому

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

  • @seoreh3138
    @seoreh3138 27 днів тому

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

  • @Ed-uf7mw
    @Ed-uf7mw Місяць тому

    Great video, Red. Looking forward to part 2.

  • @Malibudave90
    @Malibudave90 Місяць тому

    Great work. Can‘t wait for part 2!

  • @hubertjaworski6871
    @hubertjaworski6871 29 днів тому

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

  • @osiris3676
    @osiris3676 Місяць тому

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

  • @1212Diablo
    @1212Diablo Місяць тому

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

  • @LouGuberti
    @LouGuberti Місяць тому +1

    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
    @theholyroman6283 Місяць тому +1

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

  • @lantredasphodele5858
    @lantredasphodele5858 Місяць тому

    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)

  • @NaoeY
    @NaoeY Місяць тому

    Really enjoying these full campaigns

  • @chrisgrz1319
    @chrisgrz1319 16 днів тому

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

  • @MrBattlecharge
    @MrBattlecharge Місяць тому +2

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

    • @epicarcher999
      @epicarcher999 Місяць тому +2

      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
      @tigrosabertooth4757 Місяць тому

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

    • @MrBattlecharge
      @MrBattlecharge Місяць тому

      @@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
      @MrBattlecharge Місяць тому

      @@tigrosabertooth4757 I guess so - who is Ludi?

    • @tigrosabertooth4757
      @tigrosabertooth4757 Місяць тому

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

  • @bigfiregames2261
    @bigfiregames2261 Місяць тому

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

  • @хейтер-д4з
    @хейтер-д4з Місяць тому

    I loved watching Eu5 news from you

  • @LifeorDeath2077
    @LifeorDeath2077 Місяць тому +2

    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

  • @thomasgiblin-c1c
    @thomasgiblin-c1c Місяць тому

    was awesome bud please continue

  • @nicktrains2234
    @nicktrains2234 29 днів тому +1

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

  • @donzapatero4808
    @donzapatero4808 Місяць тому

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

  • @BedroomView
    @BedroomView Місяць тому

    Can’t wait for part 2 bro 🙏😮‍💨

  • @twocows360
    @twocows360 Місяць тому

    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.

  • @venrocking
    @venrocking 21 день тому

    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)

  • @Thermonnuclear
    @Thermonnuclear Місяць тому

    So excited for this series

  • @Meowth666
    @Meowth666 Місяць тому +4

    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.

  • @Sercotani
    @Sercotani Місяць тому

    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...

  • @xOdySx
    @xOdySx Місяць тому

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

  • @johannes968
    @johannes968 Місяць тому +3

    You should release Aragon when you fight Spain

  • @quintomalley1196
    @quintomalley1196 14 днів тому

    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.

  • @Bagman666
    @Bagman666 Місяць тому +3

    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

  • @calamity916
    @calamity916 Місяць тому

    Keep them coming, Hawk.

  • @alexherr6907
    @alexherr6907 29 днів тому

    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.

  • @balintmolnar5153
    @balintmolnar5153 Місяць тому

    I would like to see keep going great job!

  • @henryglennon3864
    @henryglennon3864 Місяць тому

    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.

  • @nikolaitregouet
    @nikolaitregouet Місяць тому

    Hawk with hair, wtf?😂 Looks much better btw

  • @angrymonkeynoises
    @angrymonkeynoises Місяць тому +18

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

    • @lolpuuroa
      @lolpuuroa Місяць тому

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

    • @angrymonkeynoises
      @angrymonkeynoises Місяць тому

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

    • @zhsloe
      @zhsloe Місяць тому +2

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

    • @lolpuuroa
      @lolpuuroa Місяць тому

      @@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
      @zhsloe Місяць тому +2

      @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

  • @fungisrock8955
    @fungisrock8955 Місяць тому

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

  • @OttoIncognito
    @OttoIncognito 28 днів тому

    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

  • @BubbaJ18
    @BubbaJ18 Місяць тому

    Great video from a top 0.2% fan 😂

  • @thecritic860
    @thecritic860 Місяць тому +3

    I see Byzantines, I click

  • @UwU_for_Christ
    @UwU_for_Christ Місяць тому

    i always wondered what i was doing wrong that EU4 UA-camrs 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

  • @ervinergean
    @ervinergean Місяць тому

    Nice gameplay... Old school🤟

  • @julespodevyn1613
    @julespodevyn1613 29 днів тому

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

  • @bloodycommander2951
    @bloodycommander2951 Місяць тому

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

  • @hurraytheist
    @hurraytheist 6 днів тому

    Loving the long hair bro wildman out

  • @kristianjensen2665
    @kristianjensen2665 Місяць тому

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

  • @FarsightAE
    @FarsightAE 6 днів тому

    Venice to La Serenissima to Italy to Rome to HRE.

  • @DvdAvins
    @DvdAvins Місяць тому

    The Hirsute Hawk Boosts Byzantium!

  • @petralizzy7383
    @petralizzy7383 Місяць тому +2

    your haircut is so cute!

  • @rsabinioan
    @rsabinioan Місяць тому +2

    Modern mullet mustache Red Hawk incoming????

  • @Ally.-
    @Ally.- Місяць тому

    This guy looks like he controls fire 🔥🔥🔥

  • @apo2000
    @apo2000 29 днів тому

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

  • @kekkoinen
    @kekkoinen Місяць тому

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

  • @Pharren88
    @Pharren88 Місяць тому

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

  • @Pr3datorJurian
    @Pr3datorJurian Місяць тому

    Great series

  • @rhystaylor9290
    @rhystaylor9290 Місяць тому +5

    Finally 🎉🎉

  • @ottobuchmann3646
    @ottobuchmann3646 Місяць тому +2

    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?

  • @hoteyz11
    @hoteyz11 Місяць тому

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

  • @cursedex3755
    @cursedex3755 Місяць тому

    Byzanbros, we are so back

  • @Thenoisyoneyes
    @Thenoisyoneyes Місяць тому

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

  • @LSDuke23
    @LSDuke23 27 днів тому

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

  • @rosta_rio
    @rosta_rio Місяць тому +5

    Finally.

  • @OoUNSTOPABL3oO
    @OoUNSTOPABL3oO Місяць тому +3

    Finally!

  • @dark_fighterx2671
    @dark_fighterx2671 Місяць тому +1

    Bring back the guidess🙏🙏

  • @kaanrivis
    @kaanrivis Місяць тому

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

  • @Kvalri
    @Kvalri Місяць тому

    This has to be the one you play to 1821! :D

  • @b_tonis1205
    @b_tonis1205 Місяць тому

    I am a simple man..I see big Byzantium I'm happy, I see fall of Byzantium I'm sad

  • @LOKJAV
    @LOKJAV Місяць тому

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

  • @ursulcx299
    @ursulcx299 Місяць тому +1

    I thought it was a phoenix song, not a swan song

  • @Zackary1005
    @Zackary1005 Місяць тому +1

    Hell yes brother

  • @oneofmanyjames-es1643
    @oneofmanyjames-es1643 Місяць тому

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

    • @thegrumpyraccoon
      @thegrumpyraccoon Місяць тому

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

    • @TheRedHawk
      @TheRedHawk  Місяць тому +2

      Laith is supposed to to Tunis bruh cmon

  • @nickpap6083
    @nickpap6083 3 дні тому

    Please continue this run!

  • @lfx2mlfx2m8
    @lfx2mlfx2m8 Місяць тому

    YES, continue the run