How to DOMINATE the Byzantium Opener | Byzantium | Part 1 | EU4 1.35 

3 things in life are inevitable. Death, Taxes, and Chewy making another Byzantium series. 4 if you count Prussia!

Now is the time to PU Ming

The fact you've won two wars against the Ottomans within one episode means that this series deserves the title of Based-zantium.

There are two types of people in this world: Those that think you can't have enough Byzantium content, and those that are wrong.

Aristocratic and Religious are just perfect for Byzantium this patch ❤ Also, Byzantine Reformed Monarchy is just OP once you get that government reform (culture conversion!)

It's cold and rainy outside, I've got a few weeks off from work, and Chewy picks now to start a nice comfy Byzantium run. Perfect.

Chewy breaking a truce?!😱 Now I've officially seen everything

A good strat for Bulgaria is to release them so that the Ottomans can't get to some of their territories and just let rebels do the work for you. Kinda like how sometimes rebels will just claim the various Greek islands for you. Mamluks joining that coalition is pretty unexpected for sure

Nice to see someone like Chewy doing the copy save file sneak, makes me feels less bad about doing it :D

there’s a couple things i’ve learned if you really like the min max strategy for byz. in your first war with ottomans you can take the entire coastline so they can’t return to the northern balkans and bulgarian separatists spawn in your country but siege them down instead letting you conquer faster. also cheesing them on the straight crossing by letting the army cross but then blockading again to stack wipe them is excellent for war score

I actually liked the Realm Roulette. It was an interesting concept. If there was one thing I would have done it would have been made to the terms longer or based on the leader's death.

I think if someone managed to mix the Eastern Romans and Prussians Chewy would just ascend out of extreme happiness.

Roman playthrough is always good! I think if i were you, i conquer kostendil to release Bulgaria and also for border with Serbia, becauae kirkilliste is byz core, but your strategy is also good Also europa expanded recently updatet mission tree for Byzantium, you can try it offcam, its very cool Maybe some modded playthrough someday?

The biggest reason why the Otto-man stayed on medium or high enthusiasm was likely the relative army strength of the coalitions.

YES, I have been waiting for this series 🙌

Been away from this channel for some time...happy to comeback and be treated to some REAL Roman action

I love the sneaky backup strat. A good companion of the squirrel maneuver.

Love the UI mods you're using. I am but a simple man, I see Romans/Rhomaioi I click

obligatory "uh, ackshually, you're supposed to take the gold mine in Kosovo as part of your opening moves" jk, I can never say no to my boy Chewy playing Byz!

Finally a Byzatium run. I have been waiting for this for a long time.

Oh boy! Wake up honey, time for the yearly Chewy Byzantium run!

Hyped for new series, you should culture convert Anatolia for the memes also

nice Florius shoutout! excited for this series Chewy!

Love just cruising along nicely only for Venice to come and say hello

what you just did to the ottomans is truly what you call art

Never clicked a RU-vid announcement faster in my life. PS. Please make a playthrough of Victorum Universalis

Byz: I sleep Chewy minmax game: 👀👀👀

Byz never gets old. keep up the good work!

Save scumming for the glory of Rome! Ave Chewy

I'm gonna miss the last series but hey, I can't complain. It's Byzantium time!

No matter if you watch it, or play it yourselves it's always gratifying to dismantle the Ottomans

who went full WTF when he truce break? LOL

During the Greek War of Independence there was a Greek hero known as Turk eater for humiliating the Turks in battle.

Breaking a truce is almost never worth it. It gives you tons of AE which is why the Mamluks joined the coalition.

Awesome stuff love your work man

Lets freaking go. Keep it comming.

Shoot! I hate it that I have to work throughout most of July: can't afford to chronicle your Byz campaign. And, anyways, your giving land to Albania screwed the title I was picturing... With truce break + disrepecting promises, I wanted to title episode 1 'An Emperor Doesn't Owe Anything!'

This video inspired me to try taking on the turks with merc spam and a crap ton of galleys.... It worked the ottomans are gone it's the early 1510s. Ottomans Delda Est, Roma Aeternum.

The moment you realize a youtuber would have been better than a emperor at managing a crisis

Love seeing this. Popped up in my feed and i was like well well well would you look at that ❤

Good too see, just when I was looking for something comfy to watch to get my mind off things, thanks man, also cheers to another yank playin EU4 😂

Glad to see you back!

wow its so weird you are going for byzantium i just started my first basileus attempt a few hours before the upload! awesome vid :)

YEEEES. NEW BYZANTIUM CAMPAIGN BABYY

LET’S GOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

I am doing fine brother. Heil from Bulgaria!

lmao just finished watching your previous byz run like yesterday at night

been wating for this its going to be a good week

And there we are again... Byzantium. And as a good li'l boy I'm here. I know I've a problem. God I hope so much that the next (and last?) expansion for EUIV will contain new mission trees for the 'second row countries' like Byzantium, Bohemia, Hungary, Al Andalus, Italy and the Italian minors, the Netherlands and Burgundy.

Getting the gems to pop in Constantinople or Sienna is always a nice money grab till mid game.

Oh yeah, more byz pog

New Byzantium Dev Notes

I am so excited for another Byzantium run, time for world conquest!

the civ 5 music hits different

I just started an Ottomans game. I hope we can still be friends.

Strong Start

Oh boi here we go again. PURPLE PHOENIX TIME!!!!

damn great opener man !

@chewy Had the exact same set up going in to the 1st war with the Ottomans but my morale fell apart well before theirs did in Galipoli, any idea why? Was I doing it too often? Love your work

Brüno was also a very strange Austrian man

Literally started a Byzantium run like 3 days ago haha

Saw Byz and clicked immediately

Ótimo vídeo.

very nice video, but please move your micro a little bit, at first you was in front the war score, and after, it was your micro infront xD

Oh yeah boi another byzantine run, bring back the glory of Rome! Im gonna get the tissue paper

"A bit min maxy" Dude, if you don't minmax as Byzantium, you just die.

You don't need the allies at all and if you sit on those European provinces for three to four years you can reach around 80% war score which is enough to take all of Greece and some of the black sea coast.

You didn't loot Arta, your presence was fiery but mostly peaceful.

I do love me some Byzantium!

Haven't played much as I only just got back into the game and have spent far too long trying to get UI mods to work so 4k looks nice. Love me some Byzantium, though.

One thing I don't see people doing is setting your diplomatic relation to Ottomans as threatened.

I wonder if I'll ever get over my fear of early Otto and play Byz :D

Ppl: click consolidate at low speed Meanwhile me spam clicking the army and spamming k at 5 speed

tbh; you don't really need albania and the knights to do this; If you do it without em I would build like 2 - 4 more galleys though edit: the high enthusiasm is likely due to their numbers; takes a bit for the reality to sink in if they outnumber you vastly

Really good video. I always love byz. I don’t get this trucebreaking strategy though. It’s just unnecessary ae and the stab and exhaustion hits just cost a bunch of money. IMO its just better to not use allies besides Albania , focus on mil mana with an advisor and try to reach tec4 before ottomans in the first war. Then you can stop the blocking of the strait and kill their stacks that cross to Constantinople one by one, weakening them and getting warscore by winning battles. It’s a lot microing, but you can get 90% ws. While at war you spy on Serbia and Wallachian which are often guaranteed by ottos. Then in the peacedeal you take all coastline in Europe and the province bordering Albania and Serbia. Then you attack who of them is guaranteed by ottos, calling them in and occupy all remaining Otto Land in balkan, whitepeacing them and resetting the truce to 5 years. Then you fully annex Serbia or wallachia. If it’s Serbia you core them and if it’s wallachia you just release them. Then you spawn Bulgarian rebel’s by lowering autonomy in your new cores and they will pop up. Then you can immediately take them and afterwards attack ottos again for their lands in Asia minor. This strategy let’s you become a great power in 1460.

Roma Invicta may we praise sol invictus forever also byz naval ability op

That thumbnail is amazing

Just leaving a comment for engagement

ooo, Ottoman STOMP time!@!

MORE EPISODES NOW

It would have made more sense to release Bulgaria after the first war.

Tried this 5 times, every time the ottomans declare on Athens while I'm in the war for Arta, ruining the run.

Glad to see that the good old blockade strat is back on the menu and you don't have to bother with restarts on boring annoying alliance minmaxing and Skanderbeg warfare.

LETS GOOOOOOO

Now for a hisn kayfa run

13x12 is 156 😂 get em next time chewy ❤

Glory to Byzantium Glory to Rome Glory to Christ Ironic i know

Since there is another Byz series I am going to ask usual question: Are you going to cULturE ConVErt? Maybe make it to extreme and go religious and influ?

Chewy the ui is a lot smaller than normal. Any way you can install that one mod you used to make it readable on a tv?

What map mod you using?

Not to be a backseat gamer but i think you shouldve blocked the ottomans from moving their troops in to the balkans by taking all the costal provinces, then release bulgaria and support bulagrian rebels in the balkans so they can enforce their demand so you gain the lands without getting any AE

I checked the modpack and I could't find the mod that changes the look of decision's. Any idea?

New Byz lets fucking GOOO

truce breaking isnt worth, just wait 6 years in the first war and you get a lot.

Maybe you should've taken a province to border Serbia, so you could fight them (and maybe Bosnia/Herzegovina) in the meantime

En bra början på denna serie.

u could easly get %70 war score than get full cores except edirne and uskup ohri silistre tolcu. after that just atack serbia probably granteed by ottomans than only get full money from them.w8 bulgaria rebels and create bulgaria as vassal. so u can get all balkans from ottomans only one war.

the ui is so smol :(

Chillin in CR?

time for a sunni basileus?