These two tend to be allied but with enough ships in the sea around Constantinople, you can stop the Byzantines and with your superior Force Limit from German land, crushing the Romans is possible. Then just crush them by being the better player or having a better army.Īnd if I recall, there's a decision that Rome itself can take to split in half into the Byzantines. I mean, let them siege until they're out of manpower and have about as many troops as you do. If you dare face the might of Rome by yourself without such an event, just grab yourself the Defensive Policy (+1% land attrition and 20% fort defense) and maybe a fort defense advisor, and watch Rome literally bleed to death sieging all of your provinces with 6+% attrition on the 25-stacks that they love to move around. Controlling a sieged province for 6 months causes it to defect to your country What happens is, you get a truck ton of extra troops (I don't think these even cost you manpower or count toward force limit) and you gain the Steppe Overrun mechanic of the Mongol Empire: You must border the Roman or Byzantine Empire Ahah, I did some looking into this, and there's a few things that can happen to make Rome into a crumbling mess. EU4’s most absurdly formidable mod, Extended Timeline expands the scope of the sport to cowl every part from 2AD onwards, all the best way as much as the 12 months 9999.