EU4 Timelapse - Restoring Rome as Florence 

My answer? Pure luck. (And not setting Siena and Lucca as a rival)

Also, make your attitude towards Lucca and Siena friendly so they're less likely to join a trade league. Also, bring in baguette to crush Genoa and Venice (like I did), the French units are always the most OP early-mid game.

Oh yeah, and for Pope, you need a reasonable amount of luck for that as well. Not gonna lie, without southern Naples and the Mediterranean Islands, my run would pretty much have been 3x harder

how did you deal with ottoblob?

Just get good fadey :")

Potato Douche I like how every european country refer himself as a roman empire even though no one of them is even close to roman empire. Only thing italy have close to roman empire is a Rome . Only thing Byzantium have close to roman empire is a rulers. Romania HRE Rum and Russia is not even a joke

Well Russia thought of themselves as the 'Third Rome' so yano, call yourself what u want doesn't make it true.

Nachtel The Roman Empire isn't really Roman without Rome. Also, the culture in Byzantium was Greek.

Byzantium was the Eastern Roman Empire and while the Western Roman Empire collapsed to Barbarians the eastern roman empire just sat there. Also they held Rome for a bit

Asher Ketchup Justinian came so close but the plague denied him.

YOU CAN DO THAT? FUCK

@@secreps Well, the Ducal family (or Marquis, dont remember well) of montferrato was a cadet branch of the Palaiologos family. So, it should be doable.

Ivan Zverev ikr how the fuck did they do that

thicc

Nah, when you're that powerful anyone else is a joke. He could easily launch a naval invasion against a smaller colony and start expanding, eventually seizing the New World.

Lubeck did better many times in my gameplay

Cleves did surprisingly well too

Fluid Synergy it gives the better ones, not the crappy generic ones

okay good, I've been playing Naples into Italy and wasn't sure if I wanted to take the ideas, since they're both labeled as just Italian Ideas

Didn't knew that. Thank you!

Tuscan ideas are better than both italian ones, especially militarly

The final Italian idea is coring cost reduction -25%. That is incredibly strong, when it is synergized with Admin ideas. From that you gain -50% coring cost reduction by the time you have finished three idea groups. That will save you a massive amount of admin points, but also if you go with Admin you get -10% to admin tech. I am currently doing a Italy playthrough and I literally went Admin, then Defensive and then Economic. One might think that it is a bit much to go with 2 admin idea groups early and I disagree especially as Italy, because you aren't going to expand that rapidly and when you do it should be through vassals.

Kingdom of the Saints probably had a vassal that did border Naples

Kingdom of the Saints from see. there was connection from see from same area. I hope u understand what I mean.

age ability?

Milan Pavlovic vic 2 follows

For Naples, I fabricated against them (Siena shares a sea border with Naples + the Fabricating claims next to claims thing for the Discovery Age). For Scotland/Ireland, I used Imperialism.

Lol i never take that claims bordering claims, should i?

azz79220 yea why not

azz79220 good for fabrication on large swaths of land so you don't lose too much diplo points in peace deals

It's wrong. It also includes the whole of Arabia, modern day ukraine and extends down to Ethiopia. None of these were ever part of it

@@domreed433 That's a picture of what he conquered...

you mean religious over humanist? i personally prefer converting provinces, it's just a style choice ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

No I mean administrative ideas. Anyways what difficulty was this played on? VH?

Asmodaeus89 admin is far better. Dont need humanist if u have religious, just a waste. Humanist isnt very good imo. It looks good on the surface though.

Humanist IS really good, but for runs such as these you'd need admin more, as -25% core creation cost is vital in creating large empires.

@@Asmodaeus89 The roman empire will have around 4000 developpement, coring a province costs 10 admin mana per developpement. To core the entire roman empire you now need 40000 admin mana. The administrative idea group reduces coring cost by 25%. You now only need 30 thousand, instead of 40 thousand, by picking admin you get 10 thousand free admin points that's it, it's really stupid but a lot of the game design is Same reason innovative ideas are great if you planto play a long campaign, you get 10% tech cost on every tech a tech costs 600 mana there are 3 techs at each level, you begin at tech 3, you end at tech 32, so it's 29*3*600= 52 thousand mana So picking innovative gives you 5 thousand free mana points over the course of a full campaign Your main mana sinks will be either coring or deving, then tech, then ideas, so anything that gives discounts to those will save you a huge ammount of mana points For money, your main expense will likely be building buildings or upkeeping armies, so construction cost and unit costs modifers will save you a lot of money For manpower, if you play big empires, by far your biggest source of losses won't be wars, it will be attrition, so picking something as seemingly useless as attrition reduction can in reality save you upwards of 50 million men, depending on how big your empire is. Raw manpower modifiers are also good

Barrettus They have that name because the primary culture is 'Roman.'

Paradox Addicts is that only available when you form rome? because it doesnt work when you start a custom nation with roman culture

Paradox Addicts is that only available when you form rome? because it doesnt work when you start a custom nation with roman culture

because AI is not that hard to outsmart, that and truce timers worked like a charm in this patch

I guess it's a mod, you should take a look on skin mods on the steam workshop :)

Italy is the most developed reigon in the game, meaning he might have had similar development even being smaller like that

Gonggongjoeysolods yeah but in that time ottoman ideas and their army power even even with 3 pact alied you basicly cant ounumber them plus they can beat big stacks such as 40k-70k armies with half of these armies.

Gonggongjoeysolods also after a while France will be a bigger problen with that big army and morale in that year.

Espionage ideas and diplomatic ideas work well for ae reduction

You only making excuses for why people haven't tried :p

I mean napoleon did it and there was no internal strife or revolt except in spain, if it had not been defeated by russia and england it would have stood the test of time Hitler also conquered an even bigger ammount of european land, but he had constant rebellions and resistance absolutely everywhere, since unlike napoleon he was more about the whole "enslave or kill everyone" and less about the "let's give everyone rights and restore rome" thing that napoleon liked to do, so understandably the third reich was a lot less stable than napoleon's empire

"For those that do not play Europa Universalis IV, this is a game and is in no way intended to represent nor model actual history."

The Romans weren't Greek.

byzantines are cringe larpers, calling their little kingdom "roman" is an insult to rome >different religion >different people >different language >different ethics >different ideology >different aesthetics >different form of govermenet >different military attire >different military strategies >different sets of laws >different governemental policies >different completely unrelated ruling elites >rome grew from a city into a vast empire >byzantium started as a vast empire and shrank to a city through sheer incompetence also the byzantine empire literally allied the ottomans at one point, that's a thing that happened, I'm not joking, do you think rome would ally some rebel faction? Well actually late EASTERN rome did that, when they allied with the g*ths, but they were proto byzantines, further proving my point There is just nothing roman about the byzantine empire, every single aspect of the byzantine empire was foreign to rome, the claim of legitimates heir of rome is a complete joke, since the rulers of byzantium are a faction of traitors that usurped another faction of traitors in a civil war, that itself had usurped a faction of traitors in a civil war, that itself had... you get the point, you don't get to claim you're the rightful heir of anything when you stole it in a civil war, especially if there was like 20 different civil wars and 20 different elites between you and rome

Hungarian Mapping second magyar migration period

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You didnt know that?LOL

the romans conquered all of germany, they just burned it to the ground because they saw it asuncivilisable, they killed everyone then left en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanicus it's like saying the romans couldn't conquer the saharah If you're looking at people the romans failed to conquer, look at parthia

Italy isnt Roman Empire!!!

Now conquer the whole world!

actually this was in iron man, you can see the achievements icon on the top right which isn't there when you play normal mode.

"For those that do not play Europa Universalis IV, this is a game and is in no way intended to represent nor model actual history."

China is a hell of a drug.

They need to nerf Ming again

@@caiawlodarski5339 funny because nobody cares about china in this time period

Here and in history Russia conquered most of Europe

SERBIAN MAPPING That’s just a bit outside the timeframe of EU4

xD

Teutoburg Forest, 9 CE

Half Germany was a territory of the empire and during the period of the general GERMANICUS the other half was a puppetized by the Roman Empire, and they still puppets for more then 100 years

@@pimpinjt123 Idistaviso 16 AD

GIVE ME BACK MY LEGIONS!

No he would just be the dominant power always since there is no UK,us to rivel him.

No not really

It would be the literal opposite of interesting.

@@DiamondDust132 pretty sure it's sarcastic

Interesting only if you try world conquests on Victoria 2

Rome did not really either.

thats why he should of done it

Ah lol.

Yeah, but Germany at this time was part of the HRE which makes it Roman imo... lol

oh...yeah i guess that counts

Same too buddy.

Never underestimate Italian mercenaries, my friend.

PC_Addicts what do you mean?

PC_Addicts teach me master lol

He put his soldiers on Meth and sent them out to fight and and suppress....

Florence has really good monarch and is rich. If you get good alliances, you can quickly be unstopable. It's only real treath is the papal state as an excommunication can ruin your game. If you ally the papal controler, you are in good shape.

England is hard at early game. But once u deal with War of Roses and successfully forced union on France then ally Austria, Roman Empire in your bag

@@cekoforbidden9317 or you could just give up your continental territory, play the colonial game and become a monster this way.

Breh I formed Rome with Milan in 1707 it's not that hard

@@TheSpanishDon1 the easiest Italian starting nation to do it with.

only managed to do it with savoy but florence is like.... next level

Its always there, until it's... ...GONE WITH THE WIND!

it's pronounced "ah yr", it's an african name, same pronounciation as "zaire" there should be a Î instead of a i, but paradox messed up the spelling, they mess up a lot of historical things, a few countries have incorrect names, flags, wonders

thats nothing compared to what mother russia can hold

@@pinklasagna8328 just throw men at all your problems

MEcca for Christians

They are trying to subtly hint that we should expand roman provinces and declare more crusades

Templarkiller Crusades? The Romans weren't exactly medieval

They belived in Jupiter, Mars, Minerva and other gods. Buy the time Rome went christian it declined.

Yes, I know, it was joke

Pippo ne sa parecchio You know western civilization mostly comes from the Romans, right? Without Christianity, basically nothing different would have happened. Except for Northern Europe still believing in old religions and being slightly more aggressive. And maybe they wouldn't have ended up slaughtering the Native Americans of South America, but that's a good thing. The Romans before Christianity became state religion actually tolerated other religions, you know.

xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

I'm trying that at the moment, fuck me it's hard. Haven't even conquered all of Anatolia and the religious war is already done.

Caellum Kennedy Almost done this, restarted 20 times but then got bit of luck and after first war with Ottomans it was easy

Did it twice

it's super easy, byzantium is pretty overpowered in EU4 Another thing people don't consider is that even the ottomans is allowed to form rome, I think all they need to do is become christian, which can be done easily if you accept orthodox rebels after expanding in the balkans a bit early game, and it's the easiest way to form rome by far Start as ottoman, conquer a bit of balkan land, become orthodox, use your overpowered ottoman everything to conquer the roman land, become roman empire, then you get cursed stuff like "IMPERATOR THEODOROS OSMANULU THE SECOND" as your ruler XD

I did get aggressive expansion, and I had to wait like everyone else, while dealing with rebels

"Roman" is part of the "Lost Cultures" culture group

After you turn into Rome, all provinces with your primary culture turn Roman

Get alliance with Austria 🗿

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