EU4 1.33 Byzantium Guide - THIS Is How To ALWAYS WIN

In this video titled EU4 1.33 Byzantium Guide - THIS Is How To ALWAYS WIN I make an EU4 Guide for Byzantium for Europa Universalis 4 1.33 France. With EU4 1.33 France releasing the meta and the starting moves for many nations on the map has changed, so of course new and up to date guides are needed. This EU4 Byzantium starting moves guide or EU4 Byzantium starting moves tutorial will ensure that you get a great start for yourself playing as the nation of Byzantium. This guide covers the opening moves, defeating The Ottomans, diplomacy, estates, alliances, subjects, missions, national ideas, and more! Byzantium is one of the best nations for blobbing, having a massive army that is also extremely powerful, being extremely rich, dominating trade, restoring The Roman Empire and more! After watching this EU4 Byzantium guide you will ensure a great start for yourself, and you will have an easy and fun campaign. The save file is available for all Tier 1 and above Youtube members in the save-games Discord channel.

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[josephcola]

Alright! Now if only I could get a BYZ game where Austria doesn't get a PU on GREAT BRITIAN AND POLAND, maybe could actually finally reform Rome!

[josephcola]

24:30
For anyone subjugating Wallachia or Moldovia, take a look at their mission trees. They both have a mission where if they occupy the Ottoman capital, they'll impale the Sultan and his son, which is not only metal AF, but can also really help you out by screwing over the Turk's mana generation.

[xzardas]

Byzantium is my favorite nation for restoring rome
Just after burgundy with identity crisis, forming france, ireland, scotland, england, sardinia piedmont, two sicilies and finally ending as byzantium in single day, in the process getting so many buffs it turns into unholly nightmarish abomination for next 20 years or so.
So yay for byzantium.

[Sqancer]

From my experience, ottomans often just move their capital to anatolia if you don't take edirne. Also there is cool trick with the bulgarian separatist - you have to landlock bulgarian cores (owned by ottomans) and force rebels to spawn in your provice (e.g. burgas or silistre) and once the separatist cross the border to the ottoman lands, just release bulgaria as vasal. If the rebels succeeds you gain free lands for your vasal.

[josephcola]

2:50

I build a carrack in Constantinople. Being able to naval barrage because of the extra canons makes a massive difference.

[RmsOceanic]

Several points of experience:
- Epirus' diplomatic situation in December 1444 is a coinflip for me: Either they've rivaled Albania, we cannot rival them, but they're vulnerable; or they rival us and ally someone we can't reach without our navy, often Albania. Definitely doesn't feel like 90%. Also don't forget to enforce their religion to make them more loyal, and harvest prestige before the Ottoman war.
- In the first Ottoman war, consider declaring for Thessaly/Selanik (if you're not taking Edirne), or Edirne (if you are). These are the most expensive provinces in war score terms, and by making them the war goal you reduce their cost slightly. Handly if you're trying to squeeze a little more out of it.
- Instead of taking Orhid directly from the ottomans, I like to return it to Serbia. It's cheaper in war score to do that, and it means you can immediately make a play for Kosovo. We get a claim on it through missions so if you're feeling confident you can immediately gun for it.
- Instead of ten galleys I stick to your old build recommendation of four galleys and two heavies. The heavies give my fleet a surprising amount of depth, and it's useful because other Mediterranean fleets like to throw a few in as well. To enable this, I like to spend 50 admin at the start to improve Constantinople's infrastructure, which not only slightly boosts its output and makes it cheaper to dev, but the shipbuilding time is reduced. It's taken me to the late 16th century before I consider un-improving for gov cap costs.
- If you've a spare diplomat, make sure you have some claims on the Aegean islands from Venice and Genoa, in case you have an opportunity to strike against them. Genoa's usually pretty isolated after the Shadow Kingdom, unless they befriended Austria. An annoying part to this is for whatever reason I find Venice very aggressive in converting their greek Orthodox lands, sometimes starting immediately, so by the time I'm ready to fight them I'm fighting for lands with Religious Zeal. But it's important to have the option available to you. It's also often a good way through alliances to snatch Cyprus before the Mamluks get it.
- Quantity's a solid choice, but I like Diplomatic as well for an opener. My reasoning is the war score cost reduction, but not to blob harder, it's to have room to grab Cash and Reps from whoever I fight, leaving more money to invest in myself. You may not expand as aggressively as you would with quantity, but you leave yourself a solid heartland.
- I've seen others mention it, but if you landlock the Ottoman's Balkan provinces (Take Silvestre for yourself, Orhid to serbia), then spit out Bulgarian separatists, they will drift into Ottoman lands and in five years spit out a completely isolated Bulgaria for you to conquer. This is obviously more expensive in admin points, but it allows you to weaken the Ottomans during your downtime. This can be risky however, since if they get mixed up in a war with Europeans Hungary will inevitably let them march in and siege it from the rebels. No harm in making a backup save if you're attempting this.
- In terms of westward expansion, I generally don't bother going further than the Balkans until later in the game, like after absolutism. Once you've got Ragusa locked down Constantinople becomes a great pseudo-endnode for trade, so focusing on the East is a better expenditure of your gov cap. The major exception is if Naples is still in a PU with someone, or have been trimmed down a bit. Either way they become a nice longterm vassal with some rich reconquests for you. And on that front if the Iberian wedding happens as usual, a province of Aragon's to reconquest can be devastating against Spain. Aside from vassals my main western conquests would be Corsica and Rome, mainly for missions.

[jannesfransen]

Yooo, the red hawk coming in with the real save. I was litterally thinking about starting a byz game earlier today but couldn't find a guide for 1.33. thank you so much!

[sIkLeGAMING]

Title: ..THIS is How To ALWAYS WIN
first minute: reset

[ericsaxon]

15:14 I like your first peace deal but I don't generally take Mesambria, since it is both a BYZ and a BUL core and if you release BUL you lose your core. Rather, if you take Silitria, you can release BUL without losing your valuable core in Mesambria. :)

[foramaro]

99% no aliances in epirus.
5 runs:
3 albania
1 knight
1 pope
Wp)

[mcalkis]

Just a minor tweak, be sure to attack Epirus as soon as your 8k stack reaches Athens, because they can get allies on day one.

[FuzzyStarburst]

I'm a fairly new player, around 100-200 hours. This guide got me into my first Byzantine run. It's 1740, and I'm just a few French provinces away from forming the Roman Empire. Outstanding guide, thanks!

My only issue is that my first Ottoman war didn't go nearly as cleanly as yours did, but it worked out anyway.

[LightxHeaven]

Let's go Byzantium! Strengthen the Noble Privilegies!

[ValensBellator]

**War with Epirus ends**
“I did forget to mention you should rival Epirus before the war is done”
Dang man you know video editing is a thing right? I forgot to rival them too!! 😂

[Sulidaire]

Forts while in war? What the hell? The AI is like my ex in 1.33 - super defensive and fights take forever

[motsuwu]

"I've been looking forward to this" -Count Dooku

[divingdown]

I wanted to do a basileus run and red hawk uploads when I need a byz guide, a great day for sure

[gothia]

27:48 In a situation similiar to this you could also make a border with Karaman to vassalize them for all their juicy cores.

[Alexrocksdude_]

I'd love to see a Norway guide, it has so much potential to become a viking empire!

[jackshepard]

I was just looking for an updated Byzantium guide from you the other day, couldn’t find one so I just figured it out lol. Currently working towards my Basileus achievement as we speak 😎