Byz, High, Expert

[caravel]

I love playing as the Byzantines, but mostly in the Early period. (Gotta love them Varangians, not to mention the Comnenus Jedi-Emperors. ) I agree they're very tough in the High and Late periods, though.

Welcome back.

[drone]

And a "Welcome back!" to you as well.

[Martok]

I suddenly have the urge to organize a reunion tour.

Welcome back.

[gollum]

I suddenly have the urge to organize a reunion tour.

Save it for later mate, for later.. ;)

[Martok]

@RRMike: Any follow-up on this? I'm very curious as to how your campaign went/has been going!

Save it for later mate, for later.. ;)

Indeed. I gotta get my old guitar out of hock first anyway.

[RRMike]

Nah, I got frustrated with it and was doing some other stuff and then MW3 came out and I haven't really played since. I have been getting the itch again lately though so I might fire this back up soon.

[RRMike]

Picked it up again last night. I had taken too long in my initial game, getting to Constantinople and thus the Sicilians have Greece and the Huns have Bulgaria. I wanted to secure Treb. before the turks could, for those v1 treb archers, and I was too slow. I launched an attack on the Turks and took all of asia minor, minus Armenia and I managed to get Georgia to rebel so that I wouldn't be automatically at war with the horde when it arrived. The turks went down without too much trouble. I then attacked the Eggies and was in the middle of my campaign against them when I parked the game.

I kinda screwed up by not having a clear idea of the builds I wanted to set up so it's kinda a hodgepodge right now. I have two stacks on big C and the huns hit it every few years and get their asses kicked but I'm focusing my attention on trying to get a one province border in Egypt or Sania, would prefer Egypt, obviously, but the Italians are in Cyr. so I imagine they will grab Egypt before I can. I managed, last night, to get familiar with what I was doing. I now have Antioch and Tripoli under siege, Palestine is mine, as well as the rest of the ME/AM and the only Egyptians left are a single heir and one other unit in Arabia, where I want them to end up, and the Sultan and a big stack on Egypt. Unfortunately there are two stacks of rebels in Sania.

In the NE I have an alliance with the horde and they have 3 stacks between Georgia and Armenia but a lot of it is garbage. I'm facing them with a 2/3 stack in treb and another in Rum. They haven't moved around a lot so I think they're sitting tight for a bit.

I want to get Egypt secured, keep the eggies on life support in arabia and start to move in on the Huns for their iron. I'm allied with both the Sicilians, who are fighting along the Adriatic with the huns now, and the Italians, who are pulling off amphibious landings all over that I can see. I've done everything I can to keep both of those alliances as either can crush my fledgling fleet and I'm very dependent on my little bit of trade to keep out of the poor house. I have my one island (Rhodes?) making boats non stop and I have them from the black almost to Gibraltar.

[Gilrandir]

Head for Bulgaria. Once you hold it you will have a river border to the north and north-east so the Huns (and those who hold Moldova) will have to cross bridges to get at you. But beware a stab in the back from the Sicilians in Greece.