How to beat
Byzantineas Holy Roman Empire
Matchup tips
Just picking off a bunch of these long bows is insane cuz you finding access to those again is going to be so hard.
Now Cataphracts are usually absolute bullies, but Barded armor is quite a potent move for HRE knights.
With the Hippodrome build, the Triumph ability makes Byzantine horsemen stronger. Even if HRE goes Meinwerk, in a straight-up fight, the Byzantine horsemen will win when Triumph is active. HRE should not take a fight once Triumph is activated.
It depends on if HRE has the relics because if HRE has, say, four of the five relics and they move into Imperial, I'm feeling pretty good with HRE even against Byzantines.
I think the biggest problem for HRE, especially on a map like this, which can easily drag into Imperial, is there is nothing beyond Imperial Age for HRE. You don't really have a very special late game army. In contrast, the Byzantines do have that.
There's not really a good answer that Byzantines has to Men-at-Arms. He needs to get some Javelins up, but they do okay, they're not hard counters.
You get such a big economic advantage just from going for the Golden Horn Tower. It kind of evens out the fact that your opponent got five relics. Like five relics, that's like 10 villagers. But Golden Horn Tower with five cisterns, that's like 12, 13 villagers worth of production that you're getting in there. Gives you a leg to stand on.
The spear rush on its own is kind of redundant against Byzantines, because they just need the olive oil, so if they get that skew is fine; they can build an outpost to skew it. So you have to be expecting an outpost rush if you see those Spears coming, otherwise the play doesn't make that much sense.
Byzantine Unique Units
Byzantine Landmarks
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