adsin15
Warlord
To make Byzantium competitive on Deity I recommend that everyone play the "No free AI Pottery" mod.
Giving the AI free techs is ludicrous...especially when it allows them to start a shrine on turn 1 while you can't until turn 12.
Making that simple change turns Byzantium into a Teir 3 Civ I'd say. The extra founding belief is hit or miss...you will still not get the 1st religion...probably 4th or 5th...so depending on what options you choose you can do very well.
Their UUs are both excellent for early conquest but the fact that they both classical era and on different tech trees from each other or anything else important like Combows prevent them from being higher than a tier 3 Civ I'd say.
The good thing about Cataphracts is they are actually comparable to knights so you don't need to upgrade them after unlocking Chivalry.
Giving the AI free techs is ludicrous...especially when it allows them to start a shrine on turn 1 while you can't until turn 12.
Making that simple change turns Byzantium into a Teir 3 Civ I'd say. The extra founding belief is hit or miss...you will still not get the 1st religion...probably 4th or 5th...so depending on what options you choose you can do very well.
Their UUs are both excellent for early conquest but the fact that they both classical era and on different tech trees from each other or anything else important like Combows prevent them from being higher than a tier 3 Civ I'd say.
The good thing about Cataphracts is they are actually comparable to knights so you don't need to upgrade them after unlocking Chivalry.