Restoring the ROMAN EMPIRE with BYZANTIUM

EU4 Rome, EU4 Roman Empire, EU4 Byzantium; today we remove all distinctions. The restore the roman empire decision is one of the trickiest buttons to press, allowing you to Form Rome. People do this typically as EU4 Aragon or EU4 France but today we undertake the ultimate EU4 Challenge - forming the roman empire as the Byzantine Empire. This is going to be the first part of a series so stay tuned!

This is Restoring the ROMAN EMPIRE with BYZANTIUM

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Emperor:
Faith incandescent
JoshuaS

King:
Charlie Damerell
Crilly
Flyerton99
JdoW52
Kargon
Sjalmi
Lewis Wright
Redguard76
ShadowSinger

Duke:
Benjin
ColeZawesome
Cutaline
Ghostwolf567
Of The Dragon
Phalexsu
Thomas Carmichael

Count:
AssBreath
Bobby Bottle Service
Brandon Smith-Darby
danjamrod
King of the Hoot Hoots
Penda
ratsoupchef
Red Star
Stuart Watson
Søren Ryge
ThatOneGuy

Baron:
choppyrice
Hachi
Professor toad
Rhcali
Tobias Lauge Borgstrøm
Trevor

#eu4

[jhw]

It’s always bothered me that you need England and the whole Mesopotamia to form Rome, but you don’t even need to conquer the Mediterranean coast of Africa, or all of Egypt. It’s weird they require the conquest of territories that the Romans only held for a brief period, but some core lands just aren’t necessary.

[RmsOceanic]

For why the Bulgaria strat failed the first time, if you don't take Tolcu (Northeastern most province in the balkans), the Ottomans often land there and then get Military access through Wallachia.

[ywoisug]

As byzantium, you should have a mission/event to restore roman empire without having to conquer france/england/spain and mesopothamia, and then get claims on those regions. It would add lots of flavour

[tromedlovdrolmai]

On my last Byzantine to Roman empire game, while i was fighting the ottomans, and focusing on securing diplomatic relations for after the war, Venice, Naxos, and the Knights got into a war with Milan, Austria, Ferarra, Florence, and Aragon-Naples. Venice declared war because Milan Insulted Venice and was Excommunicated. The war led to them getting enough war exhaustion and unrest that Byzantine Separatists rose up in Naxos, Rhodes, and Corfu, and Venice's army so weak that they couldn't stop them. so i ultimately got Corfu, Negroponte, Naxos, Crete, and Rhodes for free, and i did the Bulgaria strat too

[josephcola]

It isn't a Restoration as the Byzantines. It's a Reclamation. You ARE Rome, and it's time the rest of the world knew it.

Also, this took me like 4 years of on-and-off attempts to accomplish this, but IT WAS WORTH IT!

[Podzhagitel]

the virgin laith’s bulgarian strategy vs the chad budgetmonk’s HOUR OF POWER

[elvastan]

As someone who has done this three times -- Godspeed

[tromedlovdrolmai]

also, a fun thing to look forward to is the mission (i believe restore the pentarchy) which triggers an event that disables the papal interactions for all nations

[theastrogamer]

Dude I was literally about to start a Byzantium playthrough following your guide and I see this in my notifications, spooky

[guyburgess]

Can't wait to see the glorious map, once the Empire is restored!

[ThatGuy]

Look what you’ve done. Now I gotta play as the BYZ and take Rome and fight some atrocious coalitions because I’m not patient enough to not make them grow out of control. Think about what you’ve done.

[jdmacdad]

I got the Baselius achievement, and, to me, it was SUPER difficult. My smooth brain had a hard time destroying the Ottomans consistantly, so a lot of runs ended in disaster.

[noaccount]

Reminds me of one byzantium run where I was struggling - then got a PU over Muscovy and a century later, got a PU over England. Easiest Roman Empire restoration ever

[danieldyason]

never clicked so fast b4 in my life tbh

[carltonleboss]

I for one would love to see this series continue

[grubygrzib]

It's always fun to watch someone restoring Rome as pretty much anything

[YoungClarke]

I like CK3 siege mechanics a bit more. There is still variance, but seems a lot easier to know when a siege will end and less feeling like “poor luck, guess I am stuck here for a decade”

[ter]

Really intereseted to see how this pans out. Especially how you will deal with Coalitions forming.

[stupidmonkey]

Just recently finished my Byzantium > Roman Empire World Conquer/One Faith game on ironman. Took months to complete but we got there in the end. First ever world conquest on ironman which was incredible.

[kmmmsyr]

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