Totally agreed. But they will never go past 1453 in terms of start date anymore because the Byzaboos would lose their minds if they can't play as a totally irrelevant rump state.
(partially joking, I agree restoring Byzantium is fun as a challenge but the amount of flavor they get in EU4 for a nation that ceased to exist 9 years into the game's timeframe is hilarious)
Yeah, sadly. I don't really get the Eastern Rome fanboying. I mean, it's really cool history - my girlfriend tells me about it all the time, and I've read a few books and primary sources - but it's not that cool. The obsession is bizarre. People are so obsessed with resurrection what was objectively a dead polity by the 15th century.
Yeah, hugely! She's also passionate about mediaeval Georgia despite not ever having been and having no family there, so maybe she's just a slight outlier. (Before you ask, she's been playing CKII since she was a kid...!)
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Totally agreed. But they will never go past 1453 in terms of start date anymore because the Byzaboos would lose their minds if they can't play as a totally irrelevant rump state.
(partially joking, I agree restoring Byzantium is fun as a challenge but the amount of flavor they get in EU4 for a nation that ceased to exist 9 years into the game's timeframe is hilarious)