How Russia Built the Third Rome

Is it compatible with HIP?

Explicitly no, Ravenspeaker. You can't hold any other Empire title if you want to form Alexander's Empire - you have to be a King-tier, Greek cultured, Hellenic faith ruler with your capital in Persia.

Can you form Alexanders empire as Byzantium?

Could you please make it so the "Unite the Roman Pretenders" decision absorbs de jure kingdoms of HRE and ERE into the Roman Empire? It would also be cool if you did the same thing for the Third Rome and the Argead Empire

I think your capital has to be in the Persian region, yes. Your primary title might also have to be a kingdom which is de jure part of the Persian Empire, it's been a while since I wrote the mod.

So if my capital is in constantinople/anywhere else, do i have to move my capital to somewhere in persia?

You'll need to be a Hellenic pagan, Greek-cultured king ruling in the region of Persia. From there, the decision to form Alexander's Empire should appear in your decisions menu, and will have the requirements listed.

How do you revive alexanders empire?

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It's very Ironman incompatible I'm afraid, Jamm. You can play it in Ironman, of course - but no achievements.

Maybe a dumb question, but is this ironman compat? Looks neat af

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Godspeed o7

Ah, well you're right. I don't know about memes, but it's true that it was about Moscow. I exaggerated

Nah, third rome is mostly a meme.
There were some plans to institute a kind of puppet Byzantine Empire if the Ottomans were partitioned in the 18th Century (hence the existence of the ability to make a kind of 'puppet third rome' in this mod) but the whole 'Third Rome' thing was a reference to the city of the city of Moscow itself being equal in splendour and importance to Rome and Constantinople (Nova Roma, the 'second rome').

There was some theological stuff there about them being the only remnant of powerful Orthodoxy left, which I do try to lean into with the mod, but mostly it's historical nonsense given a different meaning by modern meme culture that I thought would make for excellent fodder for a fun playthrough, so threw it in there. :D

It's actually historically accurate, Sulo. The Russian Empire has often been referred to with the epithet of "Third Rome", and the Russian expansion DLC in EU4 is literally called "Third Rome", iirc.

third rome for rus lol. sounds like a joke

The mod might not be compatible with HIP since it alters a lot of the vanilla files that I pull from. If you want to check yourself you can dip into the files quickly - the decision will be under the decisions folder, in the 'african decisions' file, and clearly labelled as like 'forming exarchate' or something.

yeah i now own all of the necessary land to form the exarchate and i still have no option to do so. playing with hip btw, can you just give me the decision and event id?

You have to specifically be in the Kingdom of Africa, Golamen - since the Exarchate didn't extend all the way to Egypt or Ethiopia. You must also be King tier or lower.

im playing as a christian greek ruler ruling an empire of ethiopia in alexandria, i have no options to form the afro-roman state. is this done through a specific event chain or did i do something wrong

IN THE 769 START DATE IN GREECE THERE IS A TILE THAT IS HELLANIC RULED BY A ORTHODOX BUT HE HAS HELLANIC COURTIERS

Oh thank you bro. Your mod is incredible. Keep doing great works.

There are no hellenic characters on the map in any start date, Samseric. You'll have to convert normally with the 'delve into classics' decision and conquer Persia starting in Greece - like Alexander himself - or create a custom character.
If you're after starting with a Hellenic character, you could use the "Harranian Immersion Pack" mod from cyberxkhan - it gives playable Hellenics in the Charlie and Old Gods starting dates.

I was thinking about Alexander. Is there any hellenic character at any start date in Persia? Or do i have to convert to hellenism?

Thank you Andrew! I'll get around to fixing these soon, the end of the month at the latest.

Hey amazing mod. I was perusing through the code and found a few bugs.
e_roman_republic in the neo_roman_titles.txt is not properly closed
NIR.01 in the neo_roman_african_events.txt is not properly closed
neo_roman_third_rome_events.txt line 206 "prestige = = 150" is incorrect
neo_roman_alexander_decisions.txt line 43 "activate_title = { e_persia status = no }" should be
"activate_title = { e_persia = { status = no } }"
neo_roman_hre_events.txt line 20 "western_germanic" should be "west_germanic"
neo_roman_republic_events.txt line 105 "coward" should be "craven"
neo_roman_LOC.csv line 26 "adopt_roman_culture_hre" should be "adopt_roman_culture_hre_desc"

The Byzantine Empire is only required to have no holder if you're trying to unite the pretenders using the HRE and the Latin Empire. If you're using the Byzantine Empire and the HRE, obviously you can be the holder of the Byzantine Empire.
Crack open the code if you're still confused - check the 'hre decisions' file.

I was messing around with cheats while using this mod to see what happens. How does one do "unite Roman pretenders" if you have to be Basileus of the BYZ while simultaneously the BYZ can have no holder?

Cant wait for Roman Britain

Be a Latin, Iberian or Greek cultured Christian who's capital is in the north african region, Vasilis.

How may one re-create Afro-Roman culture?

It should be, Grunkle Byzzie! I don't edit the files that it does, so they should work fine - both the Byzantine and Roman Empire (however you restore it) will have the co-emperors like you want.

Is this compatible with the Co-Emperor mod? Was curious as I'd like to have this mod running with my current Alexiad playthrough

Novum Imperium Romanum*

If you two could not have this age old argument here, please.
Regardless of how you think about the HRE, it's the 'Rome in the West' because it already has a lot of unique mechanics in the game - legitimate to us, or not.

Better Impostor Franks then backstabbing Gr*ekoids

your problem fam, hre is sussy impostor

Ruled by an Emperor and emerged from a Latin-speaking King conquering much of the former Western Imperial lands... seems fine with me

sorry lad but HRE is not Roman not an empire
understand the choice tho

Aww, thanks Themiband, that means a lot. And thank you again, more personally, for your mod.

yo, just wanted to come in and say thanks for the credit and you did some really great work on this mod - will look forward to any future mods you make friend

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works with hip

it works with ckplus not tested hip yet

does this work with ck2+ or hip?

Ok cool thanks for the reply virtual worlds

the best rome