Imperial Reconquest CB not working

[I'm only MOSTLY insane.]

I'm playing as the Byzantines and I noticed that although I have the Legacy of Rome DLC and it's activated, whenever I go to the Declare War tab I only get de jure CBs on Croatia, Apulia, ect. Shouldn't there be an Imperial Reconquest option available?

Its not because a mod is conflicting with it as I have none activated. The only DLCs I have are Legacy of Rome, Ruler Designer, EU4 Converter, and The Republic DLCs. Could one of those be conflicting with something? Any help is greatly appreciated!

[CalPal_The_Great]

Imperial Reconquest exists to the Reformed ROMAN Empire - Byzantium itself is NOT the Roman Empire of old, only the Eastern division of what existed before the Western Empire collapsed. The IR CB can only be used by the Reformed Roman Empire, which requires having full ownership of specific duchies as Byzantium and choosing to restore the Empire - Can't remember which ones they are specifically, but Latium and Ferrara are two of the duchies you need to own in Italy (key note: COMPLETE OWNERSHIP, not held by people outside of your realm).

Once you Reform the Empire - I find that, generally at the same time, you will also reunify the faith - then the IR CB is given to you and, from there, all of the old Roman Territories await you.

Note: **from my own memory**, taking land from the Pope is a ♥♥♥♥♥, mostly because you need to ensure that the Pope does NOT have vassals which hold landed titles under him (from what I remember of my last Roman Reformation game); somehow they impede your ability to wage war on the Pope freely for baronies that are not held by you but are still within your duchy. This will involve assassinating his landed character, pausing AS SOON as they die, then declaring holding CBs against the Pope for land which his VASSALS own within that territory, while the Pope still owns land not of his own category of ownership (A castle in Rome, for example).

[Hikuran]

Originally posted by CalPal_The_Great:

Imperial Reconquest exists to the Reformed ROMAN Empire - Byzantium itself is NOT the Roman Empire of old, only the Eastern division of what existed before the Western Empire collapsed. The IR CB can only be used by the Reformed Roman Empire, which requires having full ownership of specific duchies as Byzantium and choosing to restore the Empire - Can't remember which ones they are specifically, but Latium and Ferrara are two of the duchies you need to own in Italy (key note: COMPLETE OWNERSHIP, not held by people outside of your realm).

Once you Reform the Empire - I find that, generally at the same time, you will also reunify the faith - then the IR CB is given to you and, from there, all of the old Roman Territories await you.

Note: **from my own memory**, taking land from the Pope is a ♥♥♥♥♥, mostly because you need to ensure that the Pope does NOT have vassals which hold landed titles under him (from what I remember of my last Roman Reformation game); somehow they impede your ability to wage war on the Pope freely for baronies that are not held by you but are still within your duchy. This will involve assassinating his landed character, pausing AS SOON as they die, then declaring holding CBs against the Pope for land which his VASSALS own within that territory, while the Pope still owns land not of his own category of ownership (A castle in Rome, for example).

If I recalls right, the Roman Empire reform need whole Italy and Sicily, Duchy of Jerulsalem, Alexsandra, Antioch and Tunis

[I'm only MOSTLY insane.]

Thanks. They must have changed something because a few months ago I had a Byzantine game where I could use the IR CB without reforming the Roman Empire. Might have been a mod though, I forget :/

And you're right, taking land from the Pope is a ♥♥♥♥♥. It the above mentioned game when I did it I pissed off half the Catholic world and had to fight off HRE invasions to retake Rome 0_o