Can anyone willing to share their tactics and strategies on playing as the Byzantines on both very hard campaign and battle difficulty? I know you have to deal the Hungarians to the north, Venice to the west and the Turks to the East. When I played the Byzantines recently, I only upgrade my economy buildings like ports, wharves, roads etc. I don't upgrade farms as (I think) it would also increase the growth population. My strategy map plan is to quickly blitz the Turks out and capitulate more rebel settlements to the north but then Durazzo is a contested ground with the Venetians coming using their navy. As for the Aegean Sea, I combined my Nicosia and Nicaea fleet to deal with the pirates.