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Insurbia guide ?

Cool concept for a vid

Lmao democratic barbs

That Thrace. Impressive!!!

Great vid! Interesting point about scale in the grim darkness of the far future! The incongruity between the sizes of IG regiments and the feats they accomplish in lore (the Tanith First, for example) is tongue-in-cheek mocked within the fandom more broadly, but nobody looks at the Emperor’s New Clothes all that closely. One thing to keep in mind is that the scale of the other arms of the military often flips the other way (when compared with modern warfare). The Imperial Navy, for example - where a Lunar Class Cruiser boasts a complement of 95000 people (compared to a WW2 heavy cruiser with a complement ~800). As such, I suppose when thinking of the 40K Drake Equation, there’d need to be an additional factor relating to “of your uniformed military, what proportion are infantry, armour or artillery” (the branches which map to the IG’s responsibilities).

Great video

My gf was looking over my shoulder at the exact moment the slave revolt happened and made a face at me. Is it even possible to do a no slave run of Imperator?

I enjoy Carthage as well. My problem on my play throughs is that both of these are simultaneously true: 1) It feels bad to completely gimp Rome when they are highly vulnerable and miss that rivalry 2) The margin between ‘Rome is still manageable’ and ‘Rome is nearly unbeatable’ is only a hair’s breadth. I don’t like having a Carthage play through where Rome is conquered immediately. Yet they will annihilate you easily if you allow them to build up. It feels bad that if you try to allow Rome and Carthage to grow to their historical borders around the time of the 2nd Punic War - Rome will handily crush you (maybe that is historical tho 🙃). I want that role play to work more smoothly. Idk, I haven’t tried it in a while. Maybe I am a good enough player to handle them now. Either way, I love Carthage, but that is my impression whenever I play them.

I’m guilty 😂. Unless there is a very compelling reason to use political influence in the first few years of the game (like to change religions) I ALWAYS fill out the ideas. I cant stand not accessing the government bonuses from not filling them out.

Great video, thank you for posting. Migratory tribes are super interesting to play as in I:R. Always a breath of fresh air after playing a more ‘civilized’ nation. My favorite way to play them, rather than a single immediate migration to another region, is to use their migration mechanic to become huge throughout the uninhabited portions near their home region. It’s really a fun and satisfying but if micro which yields massive dividends in terms of pops and territories. Basic priorities are to: -Conquer home region for all integrated pops -Conquer border regions with a minority of integrated pops (set the governor policy to cultural conversion) -By shifting slaves and tribesman around to create slim majorities, migrate one large group from each province every 5-10 years and colonize a juicy province (priority to high population, same religion, new region for extra levy, and borders new nations) - crank that centralization down to morale, levy, and happiness bonuses This creates a really fun play style where you are aggressively converting pops to your culture in a variety of ways, doubling your pops on migratory groups, gaining huge amounts of territory, aggressively seeking slaves and spreading them through out your cultural majority provinces, re-migrating, building cities from massive growth in trade goods etc. you feel very dynamic and powerful. Great fun. With this play style, you will probably stay a migratory tribe for 50-100 years. You will be behind on tech and should try to knock your local enemies down several pegs while you have insane levy size and morale bonuses. The Dahae tribes are probably the best at this because they have 2 formable tags that will bypass the centralization process entirely (integrate Parthian culture to instantly form a monarchy.) Thanks again OP!

I think building academies in capital province gives you 5 popularity? but couldnt find info about it anywhere

I appreciate the kind of video you just made as it adds a lot to the discussion of making a story more realistic and flushed out. I would have to find it again but there's a video out there that goes into the geology of Lord of the Rings and how many of the features are unrealistic. Though I do believe that adds some context to your point as the discussion of minerals and resources would have to evolve from that geography. I know in Lord of the Rings meteorites exist canonically as the story has one of the characters making blades from them. As such, it would be expected that these resources exist but are not flushed out story-wise. I imagine it would be very interesting to try to recreate where they may be on a map. Further question for you, when it comes to the Bronze Age mod for imperator Rome what are your thoughts? Both overall and how they deal with facts lost to time?

It would be incredibly childish for me to suggest your taste in stories is somehow "wrong" but I think you are overlooking the type of story Tolkien was making. Many people look at Middle Earth and Tolkien's legendarium and think of the "world-building" in it, languages, cultures, places, history, etc. This is all fun of course but the stories themselves aren't really so much about that. The Lord of the Rings is set in a world that likely doesn't have census taking. Arnor is long dead, Gondor exists as a shell of it's former self. The shire definitely doesn't have a complex economy. The only "faction" that would be capable of industrial manufacture and logistics on a grand scale are the forces of Mordor and Isengard. That's also the point of the story. Industry is associated with corruption and the forces of evil. In universe there would be no mechanism by which Gondor or any human power could easily "know" the things you want without falling into dominance and power. It's also important to note that unlike many other fantasy series war isn't glorified in the Lord of the Rings. The hobbits, particularly Frodo, are permanently scarred from their journey. If the forces against Mordor had armies as large as Sauron, if they had the metallurgy of Isengard, then they would be indistinguishable from those powers. Gondor would scar it's land. It's the personal attributes of the fellowship that win the war. Is this unrealistic, yeah definitely lol. But that's why I love it tbh.

I feel the same way , but with science fiction book. Like they try so hard to be plausible. Yet they fail in building society and it’s history. I guess is that most people don’t really understand the “fluidity” of historical outcomes.

what fantasy stories do you like?

i'm glad that this season really enfissived how good lalatina is as a waifu. aqua is too much like a sister, and megunim is too much like a child. i've been a darkness stan since season 1. i buy in that kazuma can fix her.

Nice vid! Insta sub.

is that your actual voice?

gg man, this must have been VERY hard to do, but while i was watching i realized you were still on neutral stance. Why not switch to bellicose for the AE impact or merchantile for the money?

Can you make a video as byzantion where you conquer eastern roman borders and rome as a republic reverse colonizing the romans? Also I don‘t get how to deal with the senate which I like to learn

At minus 100 centralization you get 50% of migration cost. With the Germanic Tradition "Migration as Usual" you get 25% of migration cost. Theres also a couple germanic tribes that have a hertiage bonus for migration cost reduction. It gets the price down to about 0.5 to 1.5 Stability cost per a migration. Theres also a law to increase stabilty gain on the decentralized side of laws. It would be intresting to see how much one could culture convert in a single game with the migration mechanic. Also nice Germania run very cool!

Modern day Spain AND PORTUGAL for f*cks sake.

KZbin recommended me your video, and I'm glad I watched it because this was quite fun! Rather enjoyable, even it being an hour long the time just flew! Definitely would like to see more of this sort of stuff, and things adjacent to it. You have a new subscriber though that's for sure! :)

How could you choose Geisenheim above the ancient city , sometimes coronation place of German Kings and 50 years federal seat of government must be considered a very elaborate form of trolling

I just watched all your videos, and I am looking forward to the next one 🙂

For those interested: He relocated his capital city for Germania where basically todays german city of Wiesbaden is, which is the capital of modern day Hesse, a state inside modern day Germany. If he went just one territorry to the east, his capital would be where modern day Frankfurt is. If someone wants to use a historical important germanic city.

super interesting to see nations that are usually so small become so powerfull as well as some of the stronger nations staying dominant

Migratory armies are literally Order 66.

If IR has a mod or something that lets you make the EU you should do that.

Early HRE.

Keep building cities and all the roads

This is a great video, playing wide is boring once you are this big, it would be more fun to see the realm being vandalized and developed.

Funny how youve almost exactly recreated Otto I empire just a thousand years earlier

Are you using any mods? Edit: he's using Invictus

I thought this was a new vic2 mod 😭

Tbh, I did not expect to find this gem of a video, thank you for making it!

Wait, you're the Fusion energy guy, cool to see you're a paradox nerd as well.

10 seconds in. You got my sub. Hope to see more content soon 😎

Form the western Roman Empire

wow this was a crizy vid, glad i found your channel. Love the egypt idea and/or connecting the major cities with roads! 👀

Good shit, can't wait for more Imperator videos! : ) Go for egypt!

Make evrey province into a city

It is sad that paradox didn't make good tribal/barbaric mechanics. Like you can "invade" and "burn" cities but it is not that funny...

Oh my god! Finally i've found a video how to play Germania. Thank you! :) By the way, is that a modded game? I can't recognize the map from vanilla I:R.

It's so satisfying to see someone play this game in such Min maxy manner. Good job!

Came here from reddit Great vid!

Imperator vids = subscribing faster than Caesar conquering all of Gaul

Lets gooooooo

Woah!!! You're a cool man!