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<blockquote data-quote="Beleriphon" data-source="post: 7939093" data-attributes="member: 27847">True, but if you want to base it on the Byzantines it helps to know what period you want to emulate. So, the big things are the Byzantines under Justinian were a powerful force in the region and really were a valid successor state to the Roman Empire. By the end of the Palaiologos era it was pretty much a shadow of its form glory having be thoroughly conquered by the Ottomans.So we can have an empire in a state of growth and conquest trying to prove they are valid successors to the previous larger empire's name and glory, we can have an empire in decline, or we can have something in between where they are the height of power but in a constant state of flux and threatened with losing that power.I'd personally look at the third option, since it sets up interesting scenarios with neighbours. In particular the Kievian Rus stand-ins whom the Byzantine Empire was in conflict with over the centuries, and more than once just paid to fight a proxy war for them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Beleriphon, post: 7939093, member: 27847"] True, but if you want to base it on the Byzantines it helps to know what period you want to emulate. So, the big things are the Byzantines under Justinian were a powerful force in the region and really were a valid successor state to the Roman Empire. By the end of the Palaiologos era it was pretty much a shadow of its form glory having be thoroughly conquered by the Ottomans. So we can have an empire in a state of growth and conquest trying to prove they are valid successors to the previous larger empire's name and glory, we can have an empire in decline, or we can have something in between where they are the height of power but in a constant state of flux and threatened with losing that power. I'd personally look at the third option, since it sets up interesting scenarios with neighbours. In particular the Kievian Rus stand-ins whom the Byzantine Empire was in conflict with over the centuries, and more than once just paid to fight a proxy war for them. [/QUOTE]

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