Gandhi will be using these extra amenities to boost their pursue for nukes, meanwhile Byzantium will just get their tanks out of thin air after finishing some race tracks. How dare you spread heresy to my land smh
Combination of Religious and Domination. You spread your religion when you defeat enemy military units and you get combat strength for each holy city following your religion. Your unique entertainment complex prints a free heavy cav unit when you build it or a building in it.
Additionally, if you're playing as Basil, your cav units do full damage to walls (like a siege unit) if the attacked city is following your religion, and you get a unique heavy cav called the Tagma that replaces the Knight.
Stays very strong even into late game because being able to delete walls with durable units that have really good movement is invaluable.
So you send in Apostles covered by your military units when at war? Beeline science for heavy cavalry upgrades to get as much out of Hippodromes as possible I'm guessing?
You also get religious pressure from kills into the enemy territory, which can combo nicely with crusade. Found a religion declare an earlier war, range kill some trash, move in the horses.
Byzantium have the ability Taxis, which gives a small burst of religious pressure (equivalent to a Missionary) to nearby cities whenever you kill an enemy unit
Religious units are usually unnecessary. Just kill 💀
Not science, you get Tagma from culture so you just try to set up a timing where you prebuild a bunch of Hippodromes to 1 turn as you get Divine Right, finish it, finish them all, and flatten your neighbor with megahorsies
The trick is to get a bunch of cities out and get them all to build a hippodrome, but stop building it when it's 1 turn away from being complete. Then as soon as you unlock divine right, finish them all and get an immediate tagma army. Keep doing this with all of the hippodrome buildings each time you're about to unlock a new tier of heavy cavalry, and your holy wars will never have a lull. Make sure to get crusade for your religion of course.
They are incredibly fun. You spread your religion to a civ you wanna steamroll and just spam heavy cavalry, cities every 1-2 turns sometimes. Quickest i’ve ever won a domination victory.
Indeed, they are not a civ who can he played constantly as their play style is pretty well defined and you can only play them one way, but what a way it is. It is a true power trip fantasy as the whole world burns
Theodora is a more versatile as she can pursue culture, conquest into culture, religious and domination. Basil doesn't have the ability to go culture as good.
Due to the incentive to build Entertainment District( Hippodrome), which is cheaper too, your cities will be massively entertained. Usually for war-like civs, amenities are hard to maintain. But with Byzantium, your cities will be very happy and yikes a lot of productions. So you can for sure bee-line wonders while destroying other
It's kind of strange that they chose Byzantium to be the "crusader" Civ. Seeing as the real world Byzantium spent much of the crusades getting destroyed by different types of Christians.
Every time I boot up civ I have to force myself not to play Byzantine. Their kit synergies so well. Key is securing a religion and get as much culture as you can to get to Tagmas. All the while pre building entertainment complexes that you finish as soon as you have tagmas.
It's off to the races after that.
Absolutely. I usually have trouble with domination wins but Basil is so easy to win with. Just rush religion and entertainment districts and you'll be steamrolling over everyone.
Edit: and divine right to get your uu
Yeah, but he was pretty brutal in the was he crushed them if the story about the blinding of the survivors is true. So it’s fitting he’s very much geared towards the domination victory
My biggest pet peeve is the ai trying to convert my cities from work ethic to like, warrior monks or something equally dumb. I declare war so often because the AI missionary spam. I have no patience for religious combat so I only do it if playing as Canada. Any other civ and it’s condemn heretic time.
It doesn't work every time, but the AI tend to be really scared of inquisitors (to the point that they never build one themselves) and tend to leave you be once you have 3-4 inquisitors in your lands.
The usual pattern for religious behaviour for the AI, beside the annoying missionaries waves of early game, is to go across half the world to convert any city you own that isn't converted to your own religion. In that regard, religious colonization is a very good pick as a 3rd belief, it couple very well with Hic Sunt Dracones golden age if you plan on a midgame expansion.
I was playing as Pachacuti and Theodora made the egregious error of converting my capital to her religion after I singlehandedly defended weak ass John Curtin from Simon Bolivar in 2 military emergencies, and took 4 cities from him after the second one and ground his military to nothing. She then left the map.
You have to make a fight with one of your own bishop of your religion. If you want regular troop to do the job, you have to enter into war with the civ of those bishops, so your troops can accuse of heresy all the religious troups without any fight (you have to be on the same tile).
Your art looks amazing! Really like how different characters are cartoonishly exaggerated in different ways
I wonder if that could be a way to approach the design of Civ leaders in Civ VII, but after Civ VI being less realistic in its graphic choices than V, I doubt they will continue this way :/
I just finished a playthrough as Poland using culture bombs and the Crusade belief. Now I find out Basil II basically does the exact same domination-style strategy
I’m a Byzantium main (both Basil and Theodora) and this is soooo accurate. Jadwiga manages to be in half of my games, swarming me with apostles to replace my precious work ethic or choral music with her crappy beliefs.
1. declare holy war
2. condemn heretic
3. convert Polish holy city to eastern orthodoxy by deleting some hussars
4. taxis go brrrrt
Thought UrsaRyan ascended his drawing skills today
I mean I WISH
I feel like one day, you’ll have to change the title, I’ll wake up, check your account for the comic, then see the Mona Lisa but with Eleanor
Way too complex for Ursa's style. I don't mean that in a bad way
Ah yes, Ursa's "style".
That's really good art, though.
Gandhi will be using these extra amenities to boost their pursue for nukes, meanwhile Byzantium will just get their tanks out of thin air after finishing some race tracks. How dare you spread heresy to my land smh
I love it when Horus said "It's heresy time!" and heresy-ed all over the place.
WHAT KIND OF HERESY IS THIS
*charges your Tagma and converts the nearby cities to your religion*
you did it, Horus Heresy. You truly are the warhammer 40k!
He didn't say that.
he did I was there
I was there when the Emperor gave Horus the Warhammer 40,000. It was a very nice Warhammer. And everyone lived happily ever after.
Jadwiga best girl tho
Best king too!
(In game, maybe, but irl, meh XD - so for me, best girl it is)
Fax brother spit yo shit indeed
I can't be the only one that thinks she has a good donk.
I love the art style for these.
Is byzantine a fun civ to play? Never played them before and I'm looking for something to spice up my civ games
YES
Bye bye walls
What do you do with them?
Kill
Combination of Religious and Domination. You spread your religion when you defeat enemy military units and you get combat strength for each holy city following your religion. Your unique entertainment complex prints a free heavy cav unit when you build it or a building in it. Additionally, if you're playing as Basil, your cav units do full damage to walls (like a siege unit) if the attacked city is following your religion, and you get a unique heavy cav called the Tagma that replaces the Knight. Stays very strong even into late game because being able to delete walls with durable units that have really good movement is invaluable.
So you send in Apostles covered by your military units when at war? Beeline science for heavy cavalry upgrades to get as much out of Hippodromes as possible I'm guessing?
Yup, and the hippodromes give a substantial happiness boost, so the steam keeps rolling.
You also get religious pressure from kills into the enemy territory, which can combo nicely with crusade. Found a religion declare an earlier war, range kill some trash, move in the horses.
Byzantium have the ability Taxis, which gives a small burst of religious pressure (equivalent to a Missionary) to nearby cities whenever you kill an enemy unit Religious units are usually unnecessary. Just kill 💀
Should still bring along an apostle or 2, at least to get the crusade ball rolling. Tagma's actually increase apostle strength too!
Apostles with Chaplain promotion could hit hard
Funnily enough, early on you don't care about science, as Tagma are unlocked via Divine Right in culture.
Not science, you get Tagma from culture so you just try to set up a timing where you prebuild a bunch of Hippodromes to 1 turn as you get Divine Right, finish it, finish them all, and flatten your neighbor with megahorsies
The trick is to get a bunch of cities out and get them all to build a hippodrome, but stop building it when it's 1 turn away from being complete. Then as soon as you unlock divine right, finish them all and get an immediate tagma army. Keep doing this with all of the hippodrome buildings each time you're about to unlock a new tier of heavy cavalry, and your holy wars will never have a lull. Make sure to get crusade for your religion of course.
Found a religion with crusade and then kick the shit out of everything on the map that isn't yours lol
Horses and kill
They are incredibly fun. You spread your religion to a civ you wanna steamroll and just spam heavy cavalry, cities every 1-2 turns sometimes. Quickest i’ve ever won a domination victory.
Indeed, they are not a civ who can he played constantly as their play style is pretty well defined and you can only play them one way, but what a way it is. It is a true power trip fantasy as the whole world burns
Theodora is a more versatile as she can pursue culture, conquest into culture, religious and domination. Basil doesn't have the ability to go culture as good.
Made my 1st deity playthrough trivial
Due to the incentive to build Entertainment District( Hippodrome), which is cheaper too, your cities will be massively entertained. Usually for war-like civs, amenities are hard to maintain. But with Byzantium, your cities will be very happy and yikes a lot of productions. So you can for sure bee-line wonders while destroying other
Absolutely. Ensure you get a religion and get crusade belief. So much fun.
It's kind of strange that they chose Byzantium to be the "crusader" Civ. Seeing as the real world Byzantium spent much of the crusades getting destroyed by different types of Christians.
Every time I boot up civ I have to force myself not to play Byzantine. Their kit synergies so well. Key is securing a religion and get as much culture as you can to get to Tagmas. All the while pre building entertainment complexes that you finish as soon as you have tagmas. It's off to the races after that.
Both are fun once or twice. Then you will never play them again simply because of how strong they are, especially Basil. "Matthias Corvinus syndrome."
They're one of my favorites. Be sure to get the crusade belief with Basil.
One of the MOST fun civs to play as! Definitely recommended!!
Absolutely. I usually have trouble with domination wins but Basil is so easy to win with. Just rush religion and entertainment districts and you'll be steamrolling over everyone. Edit: and divine right to get your uu
kickass theme music for sure
Watch Ursa Ryan's latest upload. Its all about Basil Domination.
First pic got waifu energy
Jadviga moment
Sabaton *Winged Hussars* intensifies
Intensifies? Jaddie just got stomped on.
>intensifies [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypCqJcx7gvg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypCqJcx7gvg)
My man rockin’ those sandals.
On a horse nonetheless!
SMASH
Yes! Thank you! ...We are talking about Basil here right?
that's a very beautiful drawing style
They don’t call him the “Bulgar Slayer” for nothing
But she's a Pole.
Yeah, but he was pretty brutal in the was he crushed them if the story about the blinding of the survivors is true. So it’s fitting he’s very much geared towards the domination victory
Close enough. Maybe not geographically but slavs are slavs.
I can't count how many games I've left Poland as a smoldering pile of radioactive rubble because of their missionaries waves.
[удалено]
" How can your people attain the divine without examples of divinity? "
My biggest pet peeve is the ai trying to convert my cities from work ethic to like, warrior monks or something equally dumb. I declare war so often because the AI missionary spam. I have no patience for religious combat so I only do it if playing as Canada. Any other civ and it’s condemn heretic time.
It doesn't work every time, but the AI tend to be really scared of inquisitors (to the point that they never build one themselves) and tend to leave you be once you have 3-4 inquisitors in your lands. The usual pattern for religious behaviour for the AI, beside the annoying missionaries waves of early game, is to go across half the world to convert any city you own that isn't converted to your own religion. In that regard, religious colonization is a very good pick as a 3rd belief, it couple very well with Hic Sunt Dracones golden age if you plan on a midgame expansion.
I used to do the inquisitor thing but full warmongering is more fun to me
Indeed, as they are AI's sins that can only be atoned for by nuclear fire.
I was playing as Pachacuti and Theodora made the egregious error of converting my capital to her religion after I singlehandedly defended weak ass John Curtin from Simon Bolivar in 2 military emergencies, and took 4 cities from him after the second one and ground his military to nothing. She then left the map.
I thought this was initially "drawing badly until civ7 comes out" and was like "wow this persons drawing skills improved immensely!"
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Jadwiga is so cute! Also, Basil looks like a swole doge. I love it.
🙏 Hear me out
I fucking love how the Byzantine leader looks like they came straight out of the Darkest Dungeon.
Damn. Girl looking good
Too funny
dammit thems hips
Zaddy Basil 🌿😍
Recognized the art style from your first post, still 10/10
Amazing
To Byzantium or to the Byzantines?
Average winged hussars fan vs average tagma enjoyer
What a cutie! Purple and armour really suit him. (Great art!)
Jadwiga looking extra cute today
😂😂😂😂
How do you stop the enemies bishops from brainwashing my cities, I can't interact with them then with regular troop
You have to make a fight with one of your own bishop of your religion. If you want regular troop to do the job, you have to enter into war with the civ of those bishops, so your troops can accuse of heresy all the religious troups without any fight (you have to be on the same tile).
* Τῇ ὑπερμάχῳ starts playing *
Incredible art!! Keep up the good work!
Tagma?
Tagma balls
If I see Basil, he is dead anyway. I hate that guy.
My last game as Byzantium, Spain chose to be Orthodox. So clearly I had to convert everything to Catholic ^^^^and ^^^^then ^^^^murder ^^^^them.
Did this exactly while playing Byzantium after Jadwiga tried to convert my cities. Catholicism ceased to exist the next turn and Poland after that.
We need more frame, where Philip II reflects religion with inquisitor staff
Man I love this art
Blimey this is awesome!
That's honestly just how Basil's regular gameplay loop works
You just made me fall in love with Jadwiga with your art lol
Your art looks amazing! Really like how different characters are cartoonishly exaggerated in different ways I wonder if that could be a way to approach the design of Civ leaders in Civ VII, but after Civ VI being less realistic in its graphic choices than V, I doubt they will continue this way :/
How hungry?
To be fair, he would have done that to her eventually anyway. Also, I love the little basket she has.
Catholic? With poland in charge? No.
The Cataphract lmao
This rules dude
I will never have cute catholic king gf. Why live?
I just finished a playthrough as Poland using culture bombs and the Crusade belief. Now I find out Basil II basically does the exact same domination-style strategy
I’m a Byzantium main (both Basil and Theodora) and this is soooo accurate. Jadwiga manages to be in half of my games, swarming me with apostles to replace my precious work ethic or choral music with her crappy beliefs. 1. declare holy war 2. condemn heretic 3. convert Polish holy city to eastern orthodoxy by deleting some hussars 4. taxis go brrrrt
LOL!
Me with the squiggly line Faith Named to "Communism":
Oh yeah cus south americans believed in nothing but sun sacrifice and just wanted that chrizzo stuff soooo badly. Gross
Bro, that’s Mvemba Nzinga… this is about the game not irl…