That was one point people had issues with before. The heavy spearmen unit wears the same lamellar armour as before, however I improved the textures a lot, I also gave them maille and I changed their helmets from "volga bulgarian style" to more byzantine and european influenced. The militia spearmen is a new unit so it needs a new card and the heavy spearmen unit as well since they have different helmets.Īnd this leads me to the answers for lion8000: Only some units require new cards, but it´s up to you finix, how many you want changed. Actually I like them all, but that´s because I made them so to until I like how they looked Generally speaking the transitional armour period is my favourite so yeah.įinix is right, I will add additional units to the roster, but this is what I had time for, for now, and I presented them here so that he can create new cards. Now you're done taking the traditional teritories of Byzantium, improve your economy and military for the inevitable showdown with the egyptians and later, mongols and timurids.Thanks for all : I´m not sure I have a favourite unit but I guess I like the high era bolyars a lot. avoid teching it from their coz market-type buildings are much expensive and contribute little as of now, to your economy.
now it's up to you to finish them immediately, or to regroup and solidify your hold.Īll this militarism can be sustained by focusing on trade buildings in Constantinople, Nicea and Tessaloniki, like roads, ports, and up to market-only buildings. So now you're basically safe from your usual enemies, Venice, Hingary, and Seljuks Turks after you conquered some of their teritories. now we dont want to war with many europeans, dont we? you can try to sack antioch then destroy everything their, then leave it to rebel because it tends to be the 1st Crusade target. Cyprus and Rhodes should be maintained as castles because of of future unrests caused by heretics, which tends to pop simultaneously in there. While you're rampagin in the west and north, you can solidify your eastern fron, and your economy, by taking Adana and converting to town. the northern part should be easy now as the Hungarians are neutralized essentially without their startig castle LOL. with your now-free eastern force which you used to take the east and south, merge it to take on Ragusa and the Venetian stacks coming your way.
While you're conquering your eastern and southern "original provinces", build a militia force in Nicea and Constantinople to take Sophia and the still-weak Hungarians to the North, then Budapest and that castle to the west of it (sorry i forgot the name).Īlso build a force in Corinth and Tessaloniki to take Durazzo. this would take about 20 turns, more or less, depending on your generalship LOL. put a samll garrison and then pull your origibnal forces for the conquest of Iraklion (on Crete) and of Rhodes, then transport back to the Balkans for further actions. then you might want to take the fortess of Cesarea a little to the east. Playing as the Byzantines, you should take ASAP Iconium (Turkish capital) from your stack in Constanintinople and Nicae. Catholics hate you, Muslims hate you and Russians have Constantinople as a Win target. So prepare for them and turks will be dealt very easily after the mongols.Īfter you finish with middle east and the mongols and timurids, Italy is the next target to finish the game and win, in most the cases Huns will brake the alliance with you before u finish the middle east so you will have to finish them off.Īlliances wise (except the Hungarians early on) I dont have a lot of thinks to say, with Byzantines nothing really works.
After Venice head for the Turks and again dont eliminate them make peace or make them vassal after u take trapezoid, the rest of their areas doesnt worth the effort. Otherwise you gonna open a front early to keep u busy. In the inevitable early war with Venice try to vassalage them and dont enter Italy. They give lots of fun cause you going to have a lot of wars and fight both timurids and mongols, if you going to survive and win. With Byzantines you should expand fast in the start, there is no wait to build economy and descent army.