"What do you mean they couldn't just hire 40000 mercenaries able to be deployed to their capital within a week and convince them to fight a total war to the last man, waging scorched earth tactics across Greece and Anatolia for years?"
Someone who can write should write alt hist based on common/memey eu4 scenarios. I want to read about the Oirat HRE world conquest from the point of view of a german peasant.
@@mrferdi7569 Yeah you can obviously. Lay on the ground and use your body to flap over to the side, if you are at the top of a slope you should be rolling down
You know that skanderbeg was not getting out of Albanian Mountains cuz he knew he can't have open battle with ottomans instead he fought with guerilla warfare.
@@alejandronieto4212 I have done re reconquista like 20 times but can't for the life of me beat the fucking ottomans honestly I think Granada is not really that hard
Tbf Constantinople was actually a skill issue. So many things went wrong which didn't need to go wrong. For starters the Romans couldn't stop arguing and backstabbing with each other and kept inviting foreign allies to deal with rebellions or enemies - these foreign allies like the Crusaders or the Turks then soon realising they could just deal with the Romans themselves. As the old saying goes, a state dies inside before it is conquered from outside
It was a skill issue for the last 2 centuries, no more than that. As Angelos ascended so the Empire started to crumble. Before that there were ups and downs, yes, but saying it was a skill issue for over 7 centuries... fam it's mad xD People like Heraclius, Basil I, Romanos Lekapenos, Nicephorus II, John Tzimiskies, Basil II, Alexius I, John II, Manuel I... all these people were very much capable rulers. Not to mention a ton of very skilled and capable generals in their service
@@DespotEtImperator Ehh I'd leave Manuel off that list. Dude bankrupted the Empire and turned the entire Latin world against the Empire. If he'd been a bit more diligent on producing a legal male heir then we wouldn't have had the whole Andronikos/Alexios II debacle which killed the Konemenos dynasty. He really struck me as an attention whore who wanted to be liked by everyone instead of continuing his father's work which was a slow and gradual reconquest of Anatolia.
There is something incredibly satisfying about seeing gus put his arms out on defiance at the end. It's how I feel when my nation somehow survives 100 years in any pdx game. (I'm not very good.)
Women with time machines: Oh my God, it's my grandma, she looks JUST like me! But a hippie! Men with time machines: My emperor, please watch this simple video guide, you can easily defeat the Turks!
So fun fact: the situation in 1453 wasn’t actually quite as bad as a lot of people nowadays think. In fact a lot of people thought Mehmed was crazy for trying it. The pope rallied for support and managed to convince some pretty powerful states in italy to help the Romans. The Hungarians also invaded. On top of that the invasion rubbed a lot of rich turks and greeks living in the ottoman empire the wrong way. During the siege the ottoman army was at times downright mutinous.
@@samuelleandro2275 That was a mutually beneficial pr stunt. The Greeks could claim to be Romans, and the ottomans could claim to have beaten the Romans. In actuality, eastern Rome was taken over by the Greeks a long time ago and is not eastern "Rome" in anything but title. This whole thing is nothing but an attempt to make Rome to last more than it actually did.
when I played for Byzantium, everything went wrong for me, alliances were not concluded and the war had to be postponed. BUT Jesus was born (6/6/6). And he led an army
Build like 5 ships and block the straits, siege down the entirety of european ottoman land and let the warscore tick up, turns one of the hardest starts into an easy win, no mercenaries needed
weellll, the real skill issue starts when castille, aragon, venice, florence, the mamluks and every other major and mid tier mediterranean power roll up on constantinoples shores without any warning demanding to vassalize them.
If Byzantium was a skill problem then I dare you to play and survive defeating the Ottoman and reclaim the Byzantine empire as the house of Komnenos. It was a game I had so many save game for rng and so many times on the brink of bankruptcy god know how the F I manage to reclaim Byzantine in the end
Eu4 vanilla players explaining how byzantium could easily win: 😡🔥🗣️🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🤩🤩🤩😍🥳🥳🥳😂😗😗🤫🤫🤫🤫 Eu4 MEIOU and taxes players not understanding how byzantium survived till 1444 even:
capture gelibolu ( galipoli ) when ottoman's troops is in Anatolia, and blockade the possible ways where ottoman's troops can cross to Balkans. You won The Balkans. ( you capture all of greece
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