Paradox: Let's make a cool game to allow people to roleplay different states from 1444 on with a focus on colonization, trade, the rise of the Ottomans and the Western European powers. EU4 players: Byzantium WC goes BRRRRR
"Our general is a two, two, poo, so send him into battle-" 5 shock. This man was not made to rule, this man was made to die in battle and reach the gates of Elysium.
I envy how lucky you seem to have gotten with the Ottomans just, not attempting to relieve Gallipoli. I've been attempting to follow your guide, and they always, always, always wheel about to kick me in the dick.
same with me, ive tried 24 times by now and every single time they declare on a beylik and i try taking gallipoli they just turn around with a stack and wipe my fucking army.
You’re supposed to rush the fort in gallipoli not just siege it down, there’s a button if you have enough cannons (enough boats blockading) to rush gallipoli, then you have to shift consolidate every single day that passes for roughly 19 days total before the siege ends
Yeah but for that to work reliably you have to get rid of the debuff to your fort assault ability @@InternetHandle123. As far As I can see thius was not done or not mentioned in the guide. Also in the video the fort is not assaulted. This makes the strategy not really effective.
Hey man, your hard work isn’t going unappreciated, these are pretty highly edited videos and you’re putting them out at an impressive rate. You’re killing it Emperor Alzabo
After trying this opening for the past few hours, I've come to some discoveries: 1. Serbia is only giving 150 ducats, even at maximum opinion + alliance. Paradox might have made a last minute change and didnt update the tooltip. 2. AI is sending troops immediately, even breaking out of sieges they are in and beeline gallipoli to control it. 3. The Knights will almost always raid your coasts within the first few months rendering alliance impossible (-100 relations) 4. Cyprus has a huge relation bonus towards the ottomans and won't join an offensive war 5. Hungary often declares on Serbia rendering their alliance risky. Sometimes they even declare on them while they're at war with the ottomans causing you to either war Hungary or take a massive diplo/stab hit I suspect Paradox made some last-second AI and event changes based on your video.
1. they gave me 250 on he second try, so this may be more random/dependent on their economy 3. never happened to me and I tried numerous times 5. While this can be true, they are the only option with budget for your 250 ducats and AI prefers to attack Bosnia anyway Other than that, I agree, a lot of the things in this video are VERY hard to materialize.
@@irfanhekimoglu2294 this solved it for me thank you only took 2 attempts with mercs failed like 8 times without them i also build up a spy network to siege better and took the 10% from the expiditon event for 150 mil
It's a good guide, but it's still highly reliant on RNG. The missions can be different, Serbia can not quite like you enough to send the full 250, whether you can take Galipoli or not before the Ottomans come and crush you is a *huge* matter of RNG, the Knights can raid your coasts, which makes allying with them much harder (If anyone is stuck on that - the -100 penalty to *your* opinion of them from the raid prevents allying. You can fix it if you're lucky by guaranteeing them, asking them for access, managing your opinion and manually setting it to friendly and keeping on improving relations - that also boosts your own opinion of them. Despite the tooltip claiming that you must have a positive opinion of them, you should be able to ally once the opinion gets to -25)
This doesn’t work I think. Seems like a very RNG strat. Ottomans won’t wait until you siege the Gallipoli fort. Rebels won’t take it on time either so Ottomans can easily cross and attack you.
most times the knights raid you and you can ally them, epirus sometimes allies Genoa or Albania, its funny how this tutorials are ALWAYS the perfect RNG, i mean he could at least warn us about those possibilities, since they happen often
@@brazilianguy3430 5 games in a row I'm getting declared on by the ottomans while I'm at war with epirus, this shit is so annoying, lmao. This is why I dread watching guides, you can never get your game to go like these guys but they all get perfect games.
@@DsgSleazyI am guessing they restart dozens of times to get these results,and honestly I don't have that kind of willpower There is the illegal strategy however,start as otto,annex byz,ruin your nation,release a bunch of vassals like bulgaria,germiyan,eretna,and lastly,byzantium itself,then beat the ottomans in an independence war easly and play
@@DsgSleazy I tried this strategy and failed. There are a couple of things ala isn't mentioning / might have changed. I followed Red hawks guide in my 2nd attempt which worked. basically you can get rid of the fort assault penalty and then breach the fort in gallipoli to storm it. RNG in my game and in the guide video was about equal so I would say it was amuch better guide then this one here.
If you're having trouble with the opening strat: Focus on getting rid of the Army debuff ASAP, as it prevents you from being able to assault forts (effectively at least). The rest of the opener can be followed pretty faithfully, but you need to get rid of that privilege first.
all this guide shows is how to beat the turks when everything goes right but everything doesnt always go right and im yet to see how you can beat the turks when they arent stuck fort sieging. the entire guide falls apart if the ottomans send one of the two armies to break your siege that wipe your army.
I have to agree I think the only way to do it is actually get Pretender event, because I think only then Ottoman AI is too scared to cross the strait with single army. Great guide overall though
How many tries did it take before the Ottomans waited until 1449 to attack you? I am 0-for-11 until now, they always attack me before I have any chance at getting allies. Once I didn't even finish the Epirus war before they declared war on me.
Not that it matters, but the correct pronunciation is: Pronoia -> Pronia. In both '-oi' and -'ei' you should ignore the first vowel when reading it. Also 'eu-' is read as 'ev-'. Eugeneis for example would be read as Evgenis.
One day they are gonna add support for rebinding the camera keys.... after playing ck3 and going back to eu4 i just cant do it having my hand across the keyboard to move the camera lol but i still love watching eu4 videos
Every time I try this opening strategy, the Knights immediately raid my coasts and screw my opinion of them to where I can't offer an alliance. How do you stop this from happening, given that every BYZ strategy I look at always says to start by allying the Knights plus someone else?
he didn't, something is sus about the strat. ottomans doing nothing until 1448 and then literally ignoring him while the straits are unblocked for 2 years.
Ottoman AI was busy in Candar and the rebels occupied Gallipoli, allowing the blockade to work. Rebels or occupying the province in war yourself is enough for the boats to block the strait
those 1.36 byz guides are just not rng steady, i dont know how you guys get 5 shock or in other guides 5 siege on the merc corps, i get wrecked by one 12k ottoman army with penalty rolls on my 24k allied army with ease. just not to mention you have like a 1 in 5 chance to even have the chance to get knights on your side its still not 100% he does something useful with his fleet after that for some reason. And one thing that doesnt happen to all CC on their guides which is the most weird part: ottomans fights for gelibolu like mad just when you try to touch it. It doesnt matter where he is with his armies and if he is sieging stuff. Either they changed a lot with the prebuild on 1.36 to the release version or i just cant imagine to recreate those reliably. Dont get me wrong maybe 1 in 20 or 1 in 50 you will eventually get there but to proclaim this as a guide without warning how unstable it is is just clickbait
Has ANYONE been able to actually Ally the Knights before 1448? They raid my coast before I can get their opinion high enough, which cause my opinion of them to be too low for me to ally them. Also yes they rush and stack wipe any army at Gallipoli with a 36+ double army stack. Out of 30+ attempts only two where successful, Once I had the Pope, Hungry, Savoy, and Serbia as Allies and Ottomans declared war on me and the combined military won. The second time I used the event to become the Latin Empire and yeah that alliance curb stomped the Ottomans to where they didn't exist by 1465.
I got a problem. After declaring war they immediately move forces from Karasi to Gallipoli even when I have a naval blockade and forces seiging Gallipoli. Can you no longer blockade the Ottoman army in Asia?
I don't understand how people do the Gallipoli fort whenever I try this because they have both sides me blocking the strait does nothing and even though they are at war with someone else they just send like 17K army there, kill me and go on their merry way
My fleet is not blocking the ottoman armies. I have the same size navy as the guide and it is in the right spot. Do i need to have a certain number of troops?
Ludi new video has some tips that would help that early game. Like using mercenaries because of the large discount and releasing Bulgaria to take advantage of their cores
The Turks cross over from Constantinople if I try to attack them once they have their army’s in Anatolia… how can I blockade the sea-crossing? Ty in advance
This strat is too rng, in my first 3 runs i'm never can get aliance with knights, because they raid me in first month, and u can't call in offensive war noone, because serbs have the truce or gerogians don't want lands
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ottos broke to rebels and then lost my blockade, what do
Paradox: "THIS will finally stop them from saving Byzantium!"
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Paradox: Let's make a cool game to allow people to roleplay different states from 1444 on with a focus on colonization, trade, the rise of the Ottomans and the Western European powers.
EU4 players: Byzantium WC goes BRRRRR
@@christophesiewecke9208Byzantium Roman Empire borders by 1490 go brrrrrrrrrr
Ottomans: Declare on me within two months every single game and wipe Byzantium off the map.
@@DsgSleazy yea that’s because you are stupid and don’t realise what to do
"Our general is a two, two, poo, so send him into battle-"
5 shock.
This man was not made to rule, this man was made to die in battle and reach the gates of Elysium.
That is also a good way for getting ríd of unwanted potencial Heirs in CK3. Make them lead tiny armies in wars.
Two Alzabo videos in a week we are blessed
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@@AlzaboHD really enjoy watching you
@@AlzaboHD thanks for all the content, you’re the only creator I have notifs on for 😅
@@AlzaboHDthanks for effort, but take care about yourself :)
King is back with King of Kings DLC, how fitting.
I envy how lucky you seem to have gotten with the Ottomans just, not attempting to relieve Gallipoli. I've been attempting to follow your guide, and they always, always, always wheel about to kick me in the dick.
same with me, ive tried 24 times by now and every single time they declare on a beylik and i try taking gallipoli they just turn around with a stack and wipe my fucking army.
Same here. I feel like that guide isn't working as well.
Just follow the start by TheStudent (channel name) you'll have half of Anatolia and the balkans by 1500 without loans.
You’re supposed to rush the fort in gallipoli not just siege it down, there’s a button if you have enough cannons (enough boats blockading) to rush gallipoli, then you have to shift consolidate every single day that passes for roughly 19 days total before the siege ends
Yeah but for that to work reliably you have to get rid of the debuff to your fort assault ability @@InternetHandle123. As far As I can see thius was not done or not mentioned in the guide. Also in the video the fort is not assaulted. This makes the strategy not really effective.
Hey man, your hard work isn’t going unappreciated, these are pretty highly edited videos and you’re putting them out at an impressive rate. You’re killing it Emperor Alzabo
After trying this opening for the past few hours, I've come to some discoveries:
1. Serbia is only giving 150 ducats, even at maximum opinion + alliance. Paradox might have made a last minute change and didnt update the tooltip.
2. AI is sending troops immediately, even breaking out of sieges they are in and beeline gallipoli to control it.
3. The Knights will almost always raid your coasts within the first few months rendering alliance impossible (-100 relations)
4. Cyprus has a huge relation bonus towards the ottomans and won't join an offensive war
5. Hungary often declares on Serbia rendering their alliance risky. Sometimes they even declare on them while they're at war with the ottomans causing you to either war Hungary or take a massive diplo/stab hit
I suspect Paradox made some last-second AI and event changes based on your video.
1. they gave me 250 on he second try, so this may be more random/dependent on their economy
3. never happened to me and I tried numerous times
5. While this can be true, they are the only option with budget for your 250 ducats and AI prefers to attack Bosnia anyway
Other than that, I agree, a lot of the things in this video are VERY hard to materialize.
Its just full RNG guide, so completely useless in our case.
Same. Have restarted at least a dozen times now. No luck.
You should hire more mercs to remove rng element. I hired 5 or 6 companies, deleted after siegin gallipoli
@@irfanhekimoglu2294 this solved it for me thank you only took 2 attempts with mercs failed like 8 times without them i also build up a spy network to siege better and took the 10% from the expiditon event for 150 mil
Restoring Rome and Paradox Interactive Games name a more iconic duo.
Countries proclaiming they are Rome successors
Alzabo is back to put the Byz back into Byzantium.
Finally, an actually low RNG Byz guide, no more "just role a 4 siege general it's that easy"
It's a good guide, but it's still highly reliant on RNG. The missions can be different, Serbia can not quite like you enough to send the full 250, whether you can take Galipoli or not before the Ottomans come and crush you is a *huge* matter of RNG, the Knights can raid your coasts, which makes allying with them much harder (If anyone is stuck on that - the -100 penalty to *your* opinion of them from the raid prevents allying. You can fix it if you're lucky by guaranteeing them, asking them for access, managing your opinion and manually setting it to friendly and keeping on improving relations - that also boosts your own opinion of them. Despite the tooltip claiming that you must have a positive opinion of them, you should be able to ally once the opinion gets to -25)
Brilliant! Excited to see how this goes. Thanks Alzabo!
Since Pronoias get inherited instead of annexed, would it be possible to make an HRE elector into a pronoia, inherit them AND their elector status?
Asking the real questions
no
This doesn’t work I think. Seems like a very RNG strat. Ottomans won’t wait until you siege the Gallipoli fort. Rebels won’t take it on time either so Ottomans can easily cross and attack you.
most times the knights raid you and you can ally them, epirus sometimes allies Genoa or Albania, its funny how this tutorials are ALWAYS the perfect RNG, i mean he could at least warn us about those possibilities, since they happen often
@@brazilianguy3430 5 games in a row I'm getting declared on by the ottomans while I'm at war with epirus, this shit is so annoying, lmao. This is why I dread watching guides, you can never get your game to go like these guys but they all get perfect games.
@@DsgSleazyI am guessing they restart dozens of times to get these results,and honestly I don't have that kind of willpower
There is the illegal strategy however,start as otto,annex byz,ruin your nation,release a bunch of vassals like bulgaria,germiyan,eretna,and lastly,byzantium itself,then beat the ottomans in an independence war easly and play
@@DsgSleazy I tried this strategy and failed. There are a couple of things ala isn't mentioning / might have changed. I followed Red hawks guide in my 2nd attempt which worked. basically you can get rid of the fort assault penalty and then breach the fort in gallipoli to storm it. RNG in my game and in the guide video was about equal so I would say it was amuch better guide then this one here.
For those asking about the map mod I think its called "Imperial Graphics" in the steam workshop
If you're having trouble with the opening strat: Focus on getting rid of the Army debuff ASAP, as it prevents you from being able to assault forts (effectively at least). The rest of the opener can be followed pretty faithfully, but you need to get rid of that privilege first.
Alzabo playing eu4 what a treat
Alzabo please note your video is reason number one why that DLC is joining my set
all this guide shows is how to beat the turks when everything goes right but everything doesnt always go right and im yet to see how you can beat the turks when they arent stuck fort sieging. the entire guide falls apart if the ottomans send one of the two armies to break your siege that wipe your army.
I have to agree I think the only way to do it is actually get Pretender event, because I think only then Ottoman AI is too scared to cross the strait with single army. Great guide overall though
Ludi has a non RNG guide.
@@Deepwang84 thank you for info I checked it out and it helped my campaign a lot
I don't think the algorithm was expecting you to upload two videos so quickly only one appeared in my box!
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What!!!!
pulled an all nighter lol
Thank you for this nice and simple to follow guide on the new update. (Pronoia is pronounced pro-knee-ah by the way)
How many tries did it take before the Ottomans waited until 1449 to attack you? I am 0-for-11 until now, they always attack me before I have any chance at getting allies. Once I didn't even finish the Epirus war before they declared war on me.
Get allies immediately
@@bobboo101 is this a joke comment?
@@SuperJJAlexander no you can ally serbia to start with and ally Hungary within the second year
@@bobboo101 not on very hard.
@@SuperJJAlexander why play on very hard? And you should still be able to with a dip rep advisor + mercing to fl and with the unique merc
Byzanbros we are so back!
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The last bit on your video flopping was funny but sad. I watched it before this video and it was great!
Not that it matters, but the correct pronunciation is: Pronoia -> Pronia. In both '-oi' and -'ei' you should ignore the first vowel when reading it. Also 'eu-' is read as 'ev-'.
Eugeneis for example would be read as Evgenis.
One day they are gonna add support for rebinding the camera keys.... after playing ck3 and going back to eu4 i just cant do it having my hand across the keyboard to move the camera lol but i still love watching eu4 videos
I was thinking the exact same thing! I wonder if there is a mod that adds in WASD camera support
Every time I try this opening strategy, the Knights immediately raid my coasts and screw my opinion of them to where I can't offer an alliance. How do you stop this from happening, given that every BYZ strategy I look at always says to start by allying the Knights plus someone else?
Been awhile since i heard CK II's Legacy of Rome, man that feels good.
looking forward to playing the purple phoenix once again.
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5:19 Nitpick: That's not what carpet siege means.
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2 alzabohd videos?!
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas (Mariah Carey owns our souls)
Damn that cities video was sick
how do you siege gelibolu before the ottomans army cross?
How did you successfully block the straits in the first war? Don't blockades not work if the enemy controls both provinces on either side?
he didn't, something is sus about the strat. ottomans doing nothing until 1448 and then literally ignoring him while the straits are unblocked for 2 years.
Ottoman AI was busy in Candar and the rebels occupied Gallipoli, allowing the blockade to work. Rebels or occupying the province in war yourself is enough for the boats to block the strait
@@AlzaboHDBut how do you get the fort without rebels? You can’t take it in time
Very good video and a comepletely different aproach than Ludi. It is always fun to see other perspectives.
Can't seem to ally The Knights because they raid my coast as soon as they get the chance.
those 1.36 byz guides are just not rng steady, i dont know how you guys get 5 shock or in other guides 5 siege on the merc corps, i get wrecked by one 12k ottoman army with penalty rolls on my 24k allied army with ease. just not to mention you have like a 1 in 5 chance to even have the chance to get knights on your side its still not 100% he does something useful with his fleet after that for some reason. And one thing that doesnt happen to all CC on their guides which is the most weird part: ottomans fights for gelibolu like mad just when you try to touch it. It doesnt matter where he is with his armies and if he is sieging stuff. Either they changed a lot with the prebuild on 1.36 to the release version or i just cant imagine to recreate those reliably. Dont get me wrong maybe 1 in 20 or 1 in 50 you will eventually get there but to proclaim this as a guide without warning how unstable it is is just clickbait
Great content as always. Can you make the sound a bit louder like most other youtube videos.
I’m ready
Has ANYONE been able to actually Ally the Knights before 1448? They raid my coast before I can get their opinion high enough, which cause my opinion of them to be too low for me to ally them. Also yes they rush and stack wipe any army at Gallipoli with a 36+ double army stack. Out of 30+ attempts only two where successful, Once I had the Pope, Hungry, Savoy, and Serbia as Allies and Ottomans declared war on me and the combined military won. The second time I used the event to become the Latin Empire and yeah that alliance curb stomped the Ottomans to where they didn't exist by 1465.
With Romeeeee until the end of EU4!
Rare multiple videos a month
Thank you for the blessing AlzaboHD 🙏
A blessing from the Lord!
dang your starting ruler is actually a decent general
Only campaign that matters
I got a problem. After declaring war they immediately move forces from Karasi to Gallipoli even when I have a naval blockade and forces seiging Gallipoli. Can you no longer blockade the Ottoman army in Asia?
damn, this makes me wanna go back to my boys in purple
Can you do a longer video on this? I mean like taking over italy and such
took me like 20 restarts but finally won the starting ottoman war, thanks for the strat : D
using the best map 😍
You are a rockstar. This is one of the best EU 4 videos i have ever seen.
Awesome video man! What map mod is that?
Imperial Graphics if I'm not mistake I use it sometimes
Great vid
I don't understand how people do the Gallipoli fort whenever I try this because they have both sides me blocking the strait does nothing and even though they are at war with someone else they just send like 17K army there, kill me and go on their merry way
How do you get the knights not to raid your coast? I cannot ally them for the life of me. Who raids those whom guarantee your freedom????
Thought that cities skyline video was really good, hope you dont get too discouraged from it :)
My fleet is not blocking the ottoman armies. I have the same size navy as the guide and it is in the right spot. Do i need to have a certain number of troops?
Hey Alzabo! Great video, what map mod are you using?
awesome video, what mods are you using? :D
If Alzabo beats Chewy in a scrap I'll buy him unlimited poutine and cook him the very best shakshuka
Which graphics mod is this again?
Imperial Graphics
I followed the guide chill, everything went well then at 1446 Venise declared against me wtf
Damn thats rare. RIP
@@AlzaboHD love your videos too man ! I’ve been watching since your video about the best bloodlines in ck2, keep the good work !
Still waiting for Sino-Roman Empire pt. 2
I'm with the chorus of others who isn't getting the Ottomans to be stuck on the other side. I'm not sure if I have the patience for 10 plus restarts.
not sure if strategy video or asmr stream... what a voice
What map mod do you use? Great video :)
Ludi new video has some tips that would help that early game. Like using mercenaries because of the large discount and releasing Bulgaria to take advantage of their cores
Too bad ludis a cheater then
@@DonutOfNinja Who cares about YTer drama? How do you even cheat at a single player game? He was a bad sport to the AI? lol
Doesn’t mean that they aren’t good tips
@@DonutOfNinja By cheater you mean he reloads/restarts for optimal playthroughs? That isn't cheating.
@@l4nd3r no I mean that it's been proven that he's used console commands in competitive speedruns
Hello Alzabo! Can you share the mods that you are using if you dont mind? It looks great!
Tired this but i cant ally the knights. They raid me and then i get the -100 relations from all those raids.
This should be good. Can I ask what graphical mod you're using?
It could be done!
The Turks cross over from Constantinople if I try to attack them once they have their army’s in Anatolia… how can I blockade the sea-crossing?
Ty in advance
This strat is too rng, in my first 3 runs i'm never can get aliance with knights, because they raid me in first month, and u can't call in offensive war noone, because serbs have the truce or gerogians don't want lands
They should make Byzantium gold tier tech
Great video! Is it still viable to force Bulgaria to spawn from Ottoman lands and then take the land yourself ?
Your speed 5 is so fast! What cpu do you have?
FINE ill install eu4 again
Roma Invicta
Sweet
Tried it 7 times in a row. Couldn't manage to take goliboli before the turks arrive.
What's the map/graphics mod used in this video?
Its called Imperial Graphics
@@chrisk8988 Thanks!
ALZABOOOOOOOO
what if if you dont have the dlc though
Play Georgia in CK3 pls
State mandated Basileus achievement every update
Servians only give me 50 ducats and then the Ottoman strategy never works: the Knights don't help enough to keep the blockade going.
What mod are u using for map graphics?
I think its called "Imperial Graphics"
can you make a japan video
You litterly start with more money and can build more ships somehow aswell you magically spawn money out of thin air during the war
Part 2, when??
Restore the Senate, down with the Empire!
Redere means to give back, to return, no "where is"
Every time i try this, the Knights raid me
Wait a second, byzantium is rome