The excessively ambitious strategy game Europa Universalis 5 is set to release a Byzantine Empire-centric expansion titled Fate of the Phoenix on May 6th, as announced by the developers at Paradox Interactive. Not familiar with EU5? Back in October, our reviewer Brendy described the game as “a profound and complex historical simulation that will inundate you with menus just as much as it will draw you through centuries of global history.”<\/p>\n
Brendy is no longer with us (RPS in peace), reduced to a derisive laugh on the breeze, and I find myself in my lack of knowledge between you and this inaugural EU5 “Immersion pack”, which features Hellenism, administration, and the chance to “restore the Pentarchy to bolster the Eastern Church”. I\u2019m not even sure what “byzantine” actually signifies, other than being a term I use to characterize Paradox grand strategy games. Was Europa Universalis 5 lacking in byzantine qualities previously? Ah, here’s a trailer. Read more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The excessively ambitious strategy game Europa Universalis 5 is set to release a Byzantine Empire-centric expansion titled Fate of the Phoenix on May 6th, as announced by the developers at Paradox Interactive. Not familiar with EU5? Back in October, our reviewer Brendy described the game as “a profound and complex historical simulation that will inundate you with menus just as much as it will draw you through centuries of global history.”<\/p>\n
Brendy is no longer with us (RPS in peace), reduced to a derisive laugh on the breeze, and I find myself in my lack of knowledge between you and this inaugural EU5 “Immersion pack”, which features Hellenism, administration, and the chance to “restore the Pentarchy to bolster the Eastern Church”. I\u2019m not even sure what “byzantine” actually signifies, other than being a term I use to characterize Paradox grand strategy games. Was Europa Universalis 5 lacking in byzantine qualities previously? Ah, here’s a trailer. Read more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/havefunesports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/havefunesports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/havefunesports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/havefunesports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/havefunesports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/havefunesports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/havefunesports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/havefunesports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/havefunesports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/havefunesports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}