So what you're saying is all the Romans need to do is macro up after they've defended the rush then they can crush the opposition with overwhelming numbers?
An Age of Miracles Continues: The Empire of Rhomania
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So what you're saying is all the Romans need to do is macro up after they've defended the rush then they can crush the opposition with overwhelming numbers?
Seeing how one of the major reasons behind the chaos during the Time of Troubles was due to the Roman Empire becoming religious intolerant,how come no one thought that maybe it's a good idea to give the religious minority,including the Muslims,equal status again?
Does this mean Arles will have to colonize Algeria or any other part of Marinid Maghreb ?
They have, the Anatolian Muslims and the Minorities of the Levant have very, very good statuses considering their heretical/heathen beliefs.
Having no restriction other than small extra taxes and some token travel limitations are essentially radical by the standards of the time.
As for the Sunnis, the Empire no longer has the huge Muslim population that made the ToT so devastating (they went with the Copts into the Despotate of Egypt), so they can afford to be strict with them.
And they have reason to be strict with the Sunnis - cultural memories can last a long time, after all, and the majority of the Empire's woes of the last millennium can be laid at the feet of the Sunnis.
Rationality will only enter the scene after the recent cultural scars have faded a bit.
They still have regulations like Muslims can't join the army right and things like restricting the size and number of mosques right?
The empire pre-Andreas has no restrictions at all.Minus the fact that they still had the Orthodox Church state religion and it's preferential treatment of the Orthodox Church,the empire before the conquest of Egypt was almost secular in it's treatment of different religions.
The ToT was only so devastating because of the crazy empress trying to oppress the Muslims,which was only possible because Andreas forbade Muslims from joining the army as well as some other posts,which sort of silenced their voice in the government against oppression.
The empire pre-Andreas has no restrictions at all.Minus the fact that they still had the Orthodox Church state religion and it's preferential treatment of the Orthodox Church,the empire before the conquest of Egypt was almost secular in it's treatment of different religions.
The ToT was only so devastating because of the crazy empress trying to oppress the Muslims,which was only possible because Andreas forbade Muslims from joining the army as well as some other posts,which sort of silenced their voice in the government against oppression.
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Somehow, I'm guessing Iskandar will have a few Breitenfield-like victories against the Romans, and die during a victory, ala Lützen with Gustavus Adolphus.
On that topic, have the Triumvirs died yet? I don't know about Theodora and Alexia, but Helena's death would have been unforgettably well-written.
Favorite Byzantine Post-POD Emperor?
Basileus444's An Age of Miracles has had many interesting characters gain the Imperial diadem. Which is your favorite?
For me, there are so many good ones, but it would come down to a tie between Andreas II Drakos and Manuel Doukas.
Basileus444's An Age of Miracles has had many interesting characters gain the Imperial diadem. Which is your favorite?
For me, there are so many good ones, but it would come down to a tie between Andreas II Drakos and Manuel Doukas.
Nope, they're still going strong. Alexia's gone and become a recluse after her family all got killed, but the other two are still running the Empire.
The other two have also taken a back-burner and are currently semi-retired to give the co-emperor some practical experience in running the empire.
I guess B444's old idea about official co-emperors could finally happen, except Demetrios apparently turns everything he touches into shit, so that may not survive him.
What? I can't even figure out what you're saying, too many hyphens.
Maybe it's time the senior-empress deposes the co-emperor and get a new one,probably from one of her grandsons.
He wants to get rid of Demetrios in favour of someone more tolerant of heretic/heathen religions.
No,I meant getting rid of Demetrios in favour of someone more competent,or at the very least raise one of Demetrios' one competent sons to co-emperor status and then have Demetrios reduced to a figurehead.
It's not like the senior-empress is tolerant either,so I highly doubt she would suddenly get a tolerant co-emperor.
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Both would be good reasons, except.
- They're in the middle of a massive war
- Who would the potential successors be, and I don't think that any of them would be popular enough to avoid a slide into civil war.
- Helena's extremely popular.
- With the doctrine of Sub-Legal Absolutism , confirmed in The War of the Rivers, such a move would have almost no legitimacy. Helena already knows Demetrios is a bit unbalanced, but she doesn't care because she's so devoted to that doctrine, to avoid another ToT.
The only real way to do it, would be to arrange several "accidents", which would still have massive negative effects.
It would be terrible for the empire right know, even though Demetrios is pretty bad.
Later though...
Just have the senior-empress shove Demetrios into a monastery,kill or exile his supporters,no civil war.The doctrine established was that the senior-emperor has the final say in everything,not that you depose a co-emperor.
Of course,all of this have to be done after the war,but having a competent ruler is more important than having stability for the time being.A terrible ruler will sooner or later run the state into the ground.