Best thing is that because of that decision you can make a lot of shenanigans. For example culture switch to Mongolian and get a combined Mongol-Byzantine mission tree. And then later switch to Manchu culture to get banners as well
8:27 what really grinds my gears is the lack of historical accuracy by PDX: why is Monferrato’s capital city named Montferrat (which is not existing as a city) instead of Acqui or Casale (which played a big part in Mantua’s succession war in 1628 as a side fight of the War of the Protestant League)
Yeah, that "attitude towards enemies" modifier is really annoying. I feel like they made it a much bigger factor in whether your allies will help, cause I don't remember seeing that modifier nearly as often as I do now. Also, this campaign was pretty cool. I don't think I have ever even considered playing as Montferrat, and I had no idea that they had the Byzantine dynasty on their throne. I might just have to give this one a go
Do it, its a tough-but-not-too-tough fun campaign. You also only need the *IDEA* and dynasty, but you do not need to be montferrat, so you can easily form sardinia-piedmont and/or other nations if you keep ypur old ideas. Also bright green into toothpaste blue into byzantium purpur is a magnificient colour shift, and we all know that is the most important thing!
For Morocco, I have a crazy idea. Tlemcenese corsairs plundered the Iceland in 1627 and gave the island to Ottomans for 25 days. The captain of the pirates was a Muslim Englishman. The Icelanders were stunned by this event because the looting Muslims, whom they did not know, had captured their own island and then presented the island to the Ottomans. This was history's first joke against Vikings. Since Tlemcen has no unique natinoal ideas in the game, you can do this as a Morocco. I think it's just for you to do this ridiculous but fun event.
Hey, Hawk, let me explain how the bulgaria strategy really work. We all do it wrong! First, you need to isolate ottoman provinces with Bulgarian cores. To do so, you will need to take some of bulgarian provinces, maybe 3, I didnt count that. So, you do some kind of circle. After that you spawn separatists, let them siege your provinces with their cores, and then they go to the Ottomans. Now goes the most important part: after they gone, you dont release Bulgaria and dont unsiege your occupied provinces. You wait until separatists take all (!) their cores and only after that, when they are close to inforce thier demands, you unsiege your provinces. They come to your lands and you can kill them, but their occupation on Ottoman lands will not disappear! So, after some time Bulgaria will be released from Ottoman lands and you can easily conquer it from the first day if you have a claim (they dont have an army and even garrison on ther capital fort). This is very fun and useful thing to do. I use this strategy in my Serbia, Moldavia and Byzantium games when I need to crush Ottomans from the start. I hope this advice will help you! Thank you for you content!
Morocco Had a Great Run in the world cup in Qatar, beating belgium,spain, portugal and canada. Therefore, as Morocco, Own 5 provinces of each of those country, as well as the host Qatar.
25:15 I honestly can't stress enough how important a good chair is especially if you are like me and spend like 10-15h a day on PC. For most of my life I've been sitting on a fucking 19th-century wooden chair that I just took from the dining room, when I made the switch to a semi-good "gaming chair" it was life changing.
As Morocco, from Andalusia and restore the borders of the Umayyad dynasty. I know this probably won’t be picked since the Umayyads were massive so maybe you can just reform the caliphate
Prospering times is triggerd by Have at lest 25 cities Have at least one of the following: - Innovative ideas - Artist Advisor - 3 Stab Average time is 240 months, but having ino ideas and/or a philosopher advisor will make it happen faster
The Bulgaria strat occasionally works, but one time it backfired because each province successfully returned resulted in increased liberty desire. Had to fight Venice or something to get them to stop supporting Bulgaria.
So you need all the same provinces as any Greek Orthodox tag. You can be catholic, so a Byzantine Latin Empire. Oh they don’t have to be cores, that’s actually super dope.
The time I reformed Byzantium as Monferrat, I was lucky enough that Austria and the Pope became rivals of Savoy, tbh that made the game super easy in the beginning, then i became Sardinia and Piamont until I got French PU nd then I just reformed Byzantium I didn’t even went to deep into the mission tree xD
Celebrate Moroccan casbahs! As Morocco, have 20 forts with no debt or loans or deficit. Also, as a secondary goal, own Egypt and place a "casbah" in Sinai.
I think you can form Byzantium from Trebizond as well, but not from Theodoro. So Monferrat is not the only one at 1444 that can form Byz by default. Still a fun thing I have yet to try!
The actual strategy with the bulgarian rebels is not releasing Bulgaria, waiting until they appear and enforce and simply conquer Bulgaria when they appear due to having claims from the Byz missions
17:00 Why would that not be good that their armies are over there? That's actually perfect. They can't retreat through your provinces and get wiped out.
Mamluks are a great ally in that region. Sometimes it takes longer than others, but it's usually an option. They hate the Ottomans, and I don't want them taking any provinces for themselves. Of course, without the big green blob standing in their way, you are creating another problem because there's nobody really to stop the Mamluks from expanding.
@@viniciusyugulis7278 I've found the Mamluks very accommodating as both Balkan and Indian countries. Not as easy as allying the regional same religion powers, but they come around after you've grown a bit.
As morocco conquer venice,aragon,palatinate and naples cuz if u have read merchant of venice u may know these were the competitors of the king of morocco when he comes to impress portia into marrying him as the casket system.and also becomw the largest producer of gold as moroccon king also chooses tge gold casket it the story.
they are Trebizond that can remake byzantium (because they are Pontic, with is a family culture of the greek and Gothic, weirdly the gothic cannot restore byzantium)
What level of income do you consider 'good enough' for a non-trade nation? I was pretty satisfied that I was sitting at about 20 a month where I stopped as Prussia recently, where I'd conquered all the parts of the Teutons, Bohemia and Poland that are in my mission tree but hadn't expanded west at all, no Hungarian gold mine either. I can also never really tell where I should be at monarch point generation beyond trying to get into double digits with each category. Obviously I specify as a non-trade nation because trade nations make ludicrous money with very little effort.
thats crazy that the bulgaria strat doesnt work for you, it has never failed me. If you ever do get it to work though, just let them form into an independent nation then DOW and full annex them immediately. Orthodox so basically no AE and you dont have to deal with shitty vassal
My very first Sweden run(was after LotN came out), I got BI and I wasn’t even really going for it. I just chose them as an ally and then boom. Then Marie died and I ended up wayyyyy over gov cap and it threw my pacing off because I hadn’t planned for it.
Big disclaimer on the releasing a nation to let rebels give you free land. Your vassal will gain liberty desire based on development. Bulgaria will never be loyal with this strat.
Well some other comment here made me think, as Morocco, sunni nation ofc, convert the conquered province of London and have a negative opinion of England bc sharif dont like it
