Glenfins Byzantine Strategy
by: Aztexia
| Mines | 120 |
| Fort | 40 |
| Mines | 30 |
| Attack | 50 |
| Conq Land | 50 |
| Attack | 50 |
| Conq Land | 50 |
Notes on Glenfins Byzantine Strategy
- Disband your archers set your food consumption under management on extremely high, build 90 toolmakers and build woodcutters on all your forests. Set your toolmakers to 0% and autobuy your tools on the local trade or puplic market (You will need around as much as if your toolmakers would produce at 20%).Then build only gold mines, as many market that you can use to auto buy food for the main part of the mined gold (keep some gold to buy wood and iron for your new buildings) only as many tc that you need to use all the food for sending explorers, and build enough toolmakers that you can always fill your land with buildings. As other building you should always only build as many warhouses and houses that you need to not run out of space for population and warhousespace for food.
- Explore 3-4 times mountains for 1 time plains and build only goldmines on the mountains. Use the extra wood in the beginning to sell it for buying iron, after a while you can affort to buy the iron from your goldmining. It is very important that you are always able to fill all mountains with goldmines if you can't decrease your explorersamount shortly until you're back on track. When reaching exploring costs of 300 food per explorers build stables and send 3x horses with your explorers unless you can buy horses at 2400g or below on the Puplic Market.
- Start researching early but keep the amount of Magetowers low under 15% of your plainsland. Your mountain-plain will reach more than 1:1 shortly that is good! When exploring out of protection you should see to it that the ratio changes back to around 4:6 at least that you can build up an army on it later on and that you can make a short magerun on enough plains. It is always worth for a byz to explore until over 1,5 mio land!
- When building up an army at the end of running out of protection you can go all-horsemen right away, make sure you have more forts than towncenters. Pay decent prices to your horse- and weaponsellers and you'll always have enough of them. Use wine on your attack and pick targets that you think will have mountains mainly because they are your lifestock! you can't life with less then 20-25% mountains before you have reached 200 mine research!
- Make attack- and mageruns. Use the money you make out of mageruns wisely and buy what you will need for your next attackrun. If possible spread the money between your buddies that provide you with cheap weapons and horses when you are in need.
- you might have noticed above are only 390 research levels. from that point on I would advice to research armyupkeep 25, armylosses 25, mine 50, armyupkeep 25, armylosses 25... whether you stay aggressive and go for more attack or weather you like to get defnesive and get some more fortsspace and defense or even catas is up to your liking then you'll have the economy for anything then :)
About the Author
Glenfin is a player of 1000ad and has contributed his Byzantine Strategy to help other players understand the civilization more. Strategies for all civilizations can be viewed at Aztexia's 1000ad Strategy Guides section on his 1000ad helpsite.
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