Military Guard - Byzantine Army Reworked

Praecepta Militaria is an alternative history remake of the Byzantine state, giving players the opportunity to reshape their destiny against the backdrop of the chaos and growing threats of the late feudal period and beyond.

This mod aims to address the lack of flavor and meaningful options for players in rebuilding the Byzantine military system by introducing new government reforms, laws, manorial privileges, IOs, buildings, units, situations, and events that are derived from both the actual history of the Byzantine Empire and some speculative historical fiction. In some ways, this made the start of the Byzantine campaign more difficult, but who doesn't like a challenge?

NOTE: While changes and additions are intended to maintain compatibility with vanilla gameplay and other mods, please note that some high-impact changes are still under ongoing testing and should not be considered "balanced". Most of the work is focused on early gameplay (Legacy Age -> Discovery Age).

The overall intention is to encourage players to build military infrastructure as a complement to their interactions with territories, in order to increase the size, quality and composition of their armies and gain control over imperial territory. The original game restricted many of the most meaningful options to later eras, when the initial conditions for Byzantium were no longer relevant. This mod should give players more goals early in the game.

+ + Clergy and Military

+ Donavion's origins

Major update version: 0.9 - Roman Realm

05/07/2026:

Updates available for EU5 v 1.2 and Fate of the Phoenix DLC

New feature: Sfaíra tōn Rōmaiōn IO, representing vassals, vassals and neutral/friendly states within Rome's sphere of influence.

Added many new buildings (over 60 in total), new events and interactions

events and mechanisms

Appoint Generals to Regions: Appointing a Strategist will now provide important bonuses to your war effort.

Twilight of the Palaeologus: An early game event that represents the state of the empire after the end of the reign of Andronicus III (optional).

Phoenix Rising:: Post-Disaster event and situation that provides the reputation and victory of reclaiming core Byzantine lands.

Aquiline Recension:: Involves simulating scenarios for reinvestment mechanisms in state administration (optional).

Ananeosis tes Autokratorias: Support for the advance towards Italy.

Sfaíra tōn Rōmaiōn: IO simulates the "sphere of influence" of the Eastern Roman Empire

Important buildings/landmarks

Theme Headquarters -> Kentrika (Updated) - Upgrade related infrastructure to a more modern version that better meets current needs

Kastron -> Despotates -> Ochyroma -> Dioikitiroi - Large, fortified administrative-military administrative complex (no area control).

Limes -> Megasynores - Small city walls, can only be built in rural areas, upgraded in Age 3 to increase area control. Recreate the Danube Defense Line!

Strateiai - Soldier settlements that can be built in rural areas to encourage population migration (necessary for the Reform event chain). Provides small attraction and food production bonuses, while increasing farmer power.

Logotheteion - The local administrative residence, whose capacity increased over time.

Pandidakterion - Capital-exclusive building, the state university of Constantinople, provides a nice army bonus (required for reform events).

Oikonion->Hoplitarchion->Stratiotiki Scholi - the sequence of development of the Military Academy. Can only be built with Pandidakterion.

Astikoí Stratónes - Urban Barracks, providing manpower and unrest options for urban locations.

Scholai Stratópedon - Palatine barracks, the only structures that can be built in the capital or in adjacent provinces (connected by roads). Intended to represent the scholae barracks near Constantinople.

Government Reform and Estate Privilege

16 new reforms

6 estate privileges.

2 updated reforms.

3 new theme types

unit

Over 40 unique units and levies: new culture-specific units

Uni …