If you trigger a civil war, either trying to change your faction into an empire or because you got bad rolls for the other families traits that got out of hand as you expanded and got an unlucky trigger with a 5% chance, there's a few intricacies I was curious about.ĭoes the party that is the most loyal to you stay loyal when the civil war event happens, or does the game randomly pick two families to declare war on you? And are admiral and general loyalties tied to their factions? Will all generals and admirals that belong to a betrayer family follow their family into rebellion? Or vice-versa will some remain loyal, especially if you have more generals and admirals from the other families then your own?Īnd is there any chance of your family's forces betraying you if you only field armies and fleets with your own family? Or will the game spawn full betrayer stacks to makeup for all of the factions armies being your family loyalists? ![]() Also, because I'd forgotten to adopt and marry as many men and women into my family as possible for influence and army control, and I didn't want to mass disband my armies and give-up frontier territories to re-raise the armies in my interior territories and reconquer everything, I kind of had to just scrap and restart this campaign. I got caught unprepared with my "safe" provinces not optimized to counter betrayals from the provinces that belonged to the enemy houses (I know there's an overlay in the strategic map that shows the provinces that belong to the other houses but forgot to check and remove military buildings in the ones that were betrayal prone) by not removing military buildings in other family's provinces and building them in my family's bordering own. Meanwhile I had an unfortunately placed betrayer army in Southern Gaul with no one around to deal with them and another unhindered betrayer army left in my Africa frontier. The Byzantine legacy is long and predominantly proud, but unless the Emperor can turn things around in a hurry, it is a legacy that will soon end.I didn't know about managing the family politics in my first Carthage grand campaign by forgetting to expand my own family's number of generals and admirals and ended up in a terrible situation where all three of my elite fleets defected, trapping a lot of my loyal armies on the other side of the Mediterranean in Greece and Asia Minor while at war with some other factions. If the Byzantine Empire is to once again become the dominant power of the east, then it will first need to reclaim its heartlands wholly before encroaching upon the borders of another power. It is a true irony that Constantinople may now have to appease Rome after becoming the new capital of the Roman Empire centuries ago. There is significant risk that the lords of the west will consider the lands of Orthodox Christianity to be fair game unless the Pope decrees otherwise. To make matters worse, general corruption, chaos and dissent has lead to some of the other provinces closer to home to rebel.Īrguably, the greatest threat to Byzantium lies in its independence from Rome. The latter of these two losses was the worst defeat the Empire had suffered in its entire history. ![]() To the west, the Normans have taken southern Italy, and in the east the Turks have moved into Asia Minor after their decisive and terrible victory at Manzikert. ![]() ![]() The outer regions of the empire have been slipping from the Emperor's grasp for decades now. The differences between the thinking in Byzantium and the west were most profoundly highlighted with the Great Schism, the division of Christendom.ĭespite boasting the world's trade capital and home of Orthodox Christianity in Constantinople, the Byzantine Empire is well past its zenith and is now in steady decline. In fact, it is their reverence of the old ways that has brought the empire to a point of stagnation, in a world that has gradually kept moving on. It is a mere shadow because despite retaining the civilised ways of the Roman legacy, the Byzantines have done little to further it. Byzantium is the shadow that remains of the old Roman Empire.
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