Byzantium nerd here: if you want to learn about Byzantine history in an all rounded manner I recommend "Cyril Mango: The Oxford History of Byzantium" or "Jonathan Harris: The Lost World of Byzantium", they are pretty enjoyable reads by proffesional historians
I would sooner recommend Kaldellis' The New Roman Empire. Came out earlier this year, and it's a work that covers the whole thing from start to finish, written by the best scholar currently in the field in very accessible language.
“Look what they did to my beautiful empire, time to rat in a corner.” Standard eastern Roman experience hiding in Constantinople after being forced to weather a storm of thousands of wars
Lol he (blue) did NOT delete the market, you had troops sat next to it burning it down! The green player ignoring yellow's wonder play was pretty lame but marathon game though!
i love how turin plays with the underdog civs and makes it work. I been trying to make Byzantines work but its a hard civ. Turin makes them look fun using that trample all over.
Hey Turin,since you asked about recommendations about ERE history books,Edwin Pears book about the Eastern Roman Empire is a very good one,haven't read it myself though i've asked historians about their opinion and have highly recommended it.Also,since you seem to be heading to the ERE deep hole,if you want any help with pronouncing the units like the ''limitanei'' etc. in a more proper greek way,i'll be glad to help!! It's the least i can do,your videos are great fun!
@Turin Hey turin, just so you know, you played a historically accurate Byzantines--constantly under attack by Slavs, Turks, Mongols--Uh, nomads, all the time, constantly. Way to go man.
I ❤ Turin's haggard strats and game knowledge such as not knowing you cant convert siege 😂. I enjoyed watching all the repeated attempts to get the huihui pao's. Maybe relic will change this in the future