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Byzantine cultures conversion?

There are a lot of new cultures in the Byzantine group such as Aegyptoi and Antiochene and Greco-Armenian, and I was just curious if they all had mechanics similar to the Griko/Sclavinian cultures or the Anatolia region where you do an event/decision and they slowly convert? Or are these just not yet implemented or filler?

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u/TheBigSal123 — 5 days ago

Danzig Campaign aftermath.

Very Grey 1600s

Map at the end of the game.

Some crazy Trade Value in Lubeck, god forbid what would happen if I went for the English Channel this game.

The culture mapmode (I like to do a bit of culture conversion for extra map painting)

The Glorious Kazakhs serve the empire well, lording over the steppes, deserts and plateaus of Asia

The Prussians took the concept of Ostsiedlung a bit more seriosuly this timeline and took everything from the Urals to Manchuria.

The East Slavs were expanded mostly into the steppe, but of course the Ruthenians served a fine role in wiping out the Moldavians.

The West Slavs are very centralised compared to game start, with the Wends on the brink of extinction, while the Poles, Czechs and Slovaks prosper. (also Hungarians never existed)

The German people certainly can't complain about a lack of Lebensraum, even if we ignore all that is past the Urals.

The Serbians are about to be wiped out. The South Slavs as a whole have been reduced to either being Bulgarian or Croatian. Truly, a Horrific fate. But at least the Albanians are gone.

The Arab world got off pretty easy, all that happened is that Turks became Arabs (and did something to the Armenians), while the Egyptians expanded enough to get terrible name placement.

The Greeks are about as Normal as they can get. But they don't have Constantinopole. LOSERS. Bulgarians win again.

The Glorious Baltic Order and it's MANY subject States utterly dominate the old world.

The Development mapmode will also tell you that I certainly did not neglect my various holdings. Trust me, a lot of work went into making that line of siberian development and making the East Slavs all sit on 20 dev minimim.

If I played until the end of the game I am sure I could have gotten even more dev, but at some point 14.5k and 15k is essentially the same number.

I also might have stolen some land in the new world. I would not have done that if not for the colonist you get as a mission reward. The little Canadian Colony that led to has balooned into this mess.

Overall, a very fun campaign, I have finished the whole mission tree and I certainly can't complain about it. It definitely gives you a lot to do and has some great fun in there. And this was only the Non-Imperial, Non-German route of it. Great stuff.

Oh, and here is the religious mapmode. A very Catholic world, very much thanks to my interfedrence with it. The Hussites were having a great game before I stepped in and essentially wiped them out.

u/Big_Bugnus — 6 days ago

Colonial Bohemia

Whatever you do dont do Colonial Slavic Bohemia, since the requirement for the commonwealth wants you to own all of the west slavic provinces, if any developer is reading just try to do it without needing new world provinces. I guess I am the first to do a game as Bohemia

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u/Armeeca — 14 days ago