Is TREBIZOND the HARDEST start in EU4? 

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"While im constantly on the verge of bankruptcy" Ah, peak EU4 experience

"That weird little nation that claimed to be the Roman Empire." Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

I love a new series of Laith getting cyberbullied by the AI

I love how Trebizond was an empire (a really small one, but still) but Paradox won't give them their proper government rank. Talk about disrespect. 😂

"The people of trebizont only know war, bloodshed and financial hardship" Well, they are related to the greeks so thats unsurprising

After all this time, you’ve finally made a Trebizond video, and for that, I am grateful. I was very interested in Trebizond, so I started a non-Ironman Playthrough yesterday. I expanded westwards, initially annexing all of Candar, before allying Lithuania (the PU with Poland did not happen in my game, so I was very lucky). I then declared war on Imereti, and realised that I could sell Georgia’s cores to it in exchange for some money to pay off the burghers’ loans, which I did. I sold Odishi, and cored Abkhazia and Guria for myself. My relations with Georgia didn’t sour enough for them to break the alliance, which was nice. I thought about decreasing my army size to deal with the monthly deficit, or deleting the forts in Sinop and Trebizond, but the easiest way to ally Poland (Lithuania was in debt at the time, losing a war, and had fewer troops, so I needed Poland as well to help in an offensive war against the Ottomans) was to build up my army size. If Poland did not rival the Ottomans, then I would not be able to hope for an alliance with them. I also waited for the Ottomans to go to war with Hungary or some other Balkan country (Byzantium was gone by then, and I didn’t ally them before because of lore-related reasons), and, when it did, with Albania, I increased my relations with it enough to ally it, pushing its opinion of me over +100, giving me the ability to unsuccessfully enforce peace on the Ottomans, and join the war on Albania’s side. I basically had to siege down whatever I could in Anatolia, and hope I got over 10 warscore, before the Ottomans turned around and came to my area, and I was able to get a province out of it, Canik, and 120 ducats. I tried to win a few naval battles with Venice helping, but I eventually lost most of my ships, and accepted that I could not force the Ottomans to stay in the Balkans. When I get Poland allied to me, I will feel more confident about declaring an offensive war against the Ottomans, including their allies, Tunis, Ramazan, and Tlemcen. By the way, it’s 1459 in my game, and I’m completely debt-free. I’ve seen a Trebizond Playthrough on RU-vid, and they took out normal loans, which was painful to see, because loans from the burghers have a much lower interest rate, and increase their loyalty equilibrium, meaning that it’s easier to seize land from the estates, and pay back loans.

Long live the Komnenoi!

Willingly allowing the Komnenoi to die out?! Disgusting...

I once escaped to the new world with Theodoro as Trebizond It was glorious.

Honestly, after those orders to the AI, I fully expected something ridiculous like AI Lubeck restoring the Hanseatic League, the Pope going ham, or AI Ethiopia restoring Aksum. Edit: Apparently since it's cursed, another crazy thing that could happen is AI Ruthenia but Catholic... which is exactly what happened in my Mulhouse into Swabia campaign (fully decentralized the HRE for the achievement, which required wiping Austria off the map because even with only 4 provinces, all 7 electors were still voting for them).

I got the Komnenos Empire achievement after like 15 tries and god was it satisfying. Ended up expanding into Persia and lower Russia instead of reclaiming the Byzantine Empire. Became a very interesting campaign.

Can we have knock off Rome? No we have knock off Rome at home. Knock off Rome at home:

What a coincidence I was trying out Trebizont too recently. However you already lost as you lost the Komnenos-Dynastie which would have been the rightful heir to the Eastern Roman throne.

To do this campaign I used a lesser known strategy called panic and hire as many mercenaries as possible to ally big nations so ottomans won't attack me

I love this series of "weird countries that usually get eaten quickly"! Please continue :)

"Now the worst thing that can happen is..." Self fulfilling last words

Ulm is actually a quite nice place to visit! If you ever make it over there, I'd recommend trying some "Maultaschen" or some "Spätzle" (both traditional Swabian cuisine) and washing it down with a glass of "Williams" fruit brandy.

Got lucky as Trebizond and defeated the Ottomans, got the achievement, restored Byzantium, and never played them since

Trebizond is my favourite country in the game, I hope you continue this series!

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Finally The Eu4 video about my homeland. Thanks TheSocialStreamers

Trebizond will forever be my proudest playthrough

Once again, an eye catching title and probably a good video. keep it up!

Inb4 a massive Aksum comes and conquers the Mamelukes, Tunis conquers Naples and Ireland unites.

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Most attractive map gamer

i have never in my life played eu4 i just enjoy watching the colours change

Great video!

7:00 Little me starting my obsessive love for Rome back in the early 2000s

finally, someone does a video on my main nation...

You have no idea how long I’ve waited for this.

Very fun video, you had my attention, it was such a shame when it ended.

You: one the verge of bankrupcy the game: you can take the high income mission

Imagine being the Ottomans and some mountain state conquers all of the Caucasus in a few years. Oh, and did you select "Claiming provinces bordering provinces" as your age bonus?

You guys are honestly my favourite content creators

Idk, but I found this video funnier than the Athens one. I liked the facecam

Trebizond is actually much easier than Byzantium itself in ironman.. in my game I ended up having about 100 years of bankruptcy and maybe 200 yrs of consecutive wars with a huge Austria.. but so funny to have komnenos relatives in France, Austria, Russia, England and Castile, that really made the game worth it

the start was amazing with the orders to the ai xd

Looks like you could do with a refresher on florrynomics. The crazy dutch mans way of handling debt and bankruptcy.

To anyone seeing this,you are awesome.

My Pontic ancestry approves of this!!!

Continue this campaign, please. You stopped right before a bankruptcy-disaster 1-2 punch.

Yess please more of Trebizond! I once tried them, did ok(not financially) and took like 3 provinces from the ottomans one day. Only after the ottomans allied a strong France, I stopped playing because I was really boxed in. It is always nice to see people preform hard nations pretty well

I once tried a Trebizond campaign and I gotta say, my economic experience was just like yours. Also I managed to get an alliance with ottomans

Now i live there and we call there Trabzon

The empire that could good job with the whole conquering everything youre a real profesh player

video: About Trebizond Guy in thumbnail: Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos of The Eastern Roman Empire

ALL HAIL THE TRUE ROMAN EMPIRE!

Laith is playing a small nation? I guess the Ai of every nation just got replaced by skynet

I tried this yesterday and managed to conquer all those little orthodox countries, vassal feed astrakhan, and conquer the north half of QQ. Also ate shirvan. It all ended when I got a peasant war followed by internal struggles while at 0 manpower and bankrupt.

Please go for the Trebizond empires achievment.

The Trebizond Empire was founded by King Tamar and used as a springboard against the Ottoman Empire.

trebizond was essentially an army with a state

Byzantium 2: Pontic Boogaloo

super down to see you go to Ulm lol

Ottomans join coalition. "Right then that looks like a good place to end the video!"

You ever get that feeling of Deja-vu.

one of the last roman rump states

Last Time You Said "The Hardest Start" You Dominated And The Game Went As Strange As It Ever Got Before That Thing Between You And Burgundy

i am actually from ulm so yeah would be very proud if you'd actually go there

i got their achievement by doing the old escape to italy trick when you no cb pope right off the bat.

Watch scotland become next lotharingia

The real tragedy here is giving up the Komnenos dynasty (it was Alexios Komnenos that started the Crusades). That’s the main reason to play Trebizond. Love playing them. Usually get to where you are now before the whole world (Ottomans) turn on you and decide they’ve let you live a bit too long.

Holy shit, when are you gonna be in Ulm? I don't live far away from there and I really wanna go see you if you decide to go

We need part2

In russian playthroughs I like to vassalize Trebizond to make a pretty good buffer state in the Caucases. Playing independently as Trebizond though requires a love for pain

becoming strong in caucasia is pretty historically accurate, you get good economy relatively good millitary a... oh wait its the ottomans!

when playing in the caucasus it's terribly annoying that you don't have persia discovered from the start, so much diplomacy is missed out on from that

a little sidenote if you guys are really going to ulm be sure you're in the right ulm bc we have ulm und new ulm right next to ulm

My family was from Trapezounta :D

Damn, let's hope those mountain forts can eventually save you when the ottomans start knocing at the door!

Komnenoi empire is my proudest eu4 achievement

Inspired by this video I did the The Komnenoi Empire-achievment. So much pain. You're always piss poor with disloyal vassals and shit allies. Quantomans to the west, Qunturids to the east. Got the achievement by 1615, but boy was it a miserable experience

Will you get the achivement for trebizond ? The one where you get the empire rank

It actually had the most legitimate claim to the Roman Empire at the time

You know that you can get just a tad less AE by peacing out at the end of the year as AE ticks down in December and then there's less of s chance for a coalition

It was basically a Roman successor state, but the dynasty was not the same i think

Greetings from Trabzon

Just no cb east frisia? Or is that been patched out?

Hi laith! Know you won’t respond,but just wanted to say your my favorite EU4 content creator! Hope you have a good day 😄

The easy win caucasian strategy is basically get to 8 provinces or so and ally muscovy within 10 years. Orthodox is the best religion in the game for that before the op manpower buff

Pls announce when both are in Ulm I will single-handedly drive there and introduce u to proper beer

I want more.

do a video in any nation but in your wars you can only accept the enemy peace treaty, and you can't make your own

Do you have random lucky nations

is there one video where laith doesnt sound like hes out of breath the entire time

Trebizond needs a mission tree

*Making 999999999 Alts to make Him go to ULM*

Neat

Trabzon ♥️💙

Fun fact, trebizond is trabzon in turkish

Country that have hard start and i have played it lately is The Isles

Pontus stronk

“Trapezuntine Circassia ”

Me when I hear mountain general music

Nothing weird this time? Does that mean Ming stays or blows apart..

yeah let's go time to bully Laith into forming rome for real

Can't wait for AI Scotland to form GB

Trebizond at least has weak neighbors they can attack early with some help