Menaulatoi upgrade can be added to spearman line in Age 3 to swap spears for pikes(that means +1 range, extra attack, attack bonus when bracing and against mounted units) and add some armour, though also comes with extra gold cost. Mourtatoi upgrade can be added to foot archer line in Age 3 to replace ordinary bows with composite bows, thus bring them extra gold cost, but also grant them extra armour, range and attack. Aging up will increase their training limit). Since Age2, each town centre of Basileía Rhōmaíōn can recruit specific numbers of akritai and ippoakritai(they are javelin units, on foot or mounted, with short range and high base attack, can be trained in modest price without occupying population slots. Additionally, after reviewing the proposal of new Basileía Rhōmaíōn civ, here come some of my ideas as its supplements: The Basileía Rhōmaíōn’s(supposed to be the official name of Byzantines) own version should be renamed as hippotoxotai. The Byzantines were educated following the Greek classical and Hellenistic literature and very often applied them in any civic aspect. In fact, the Byzantine emperor Michael I referred to the Latin language as “Barbaric” in an exchange of letters with the Pope of Rome in which he was reproached for having lost the Roman traditions and lifestyle.įinally we have the Hellenic culture whose role in Byzantium makes it different from any other empire.

To begin with, the division so commonly used for the Byzantines being that of “Greek Culture, Roman Law, Orthodox faith” was thwarted and no longer has any support in the field of modern Byzantinism.Īll the legal documents that we have from the Byzantines, that come from southern Italy, East Asia Minor, Central Greece and Mount Athos, rarely invoke any Roman law and unlike what the post suggests, the Byzantines referred to anyone who did not knew Greek as a barbarian, a tradition inherited from his Greek ancestors and not from the Romans.

We must be clear if we are going to talk about the Byzantines.

Age of empires 2 byzantine build order