Creating an INDO-GREEK Empire as BACTRIA in Imperator Rome!

[@GlitchyC]

Let’s go Greco-Bactria time We are so Back-tria

[@Red_Zed]

Yes!

[@idontlikerome2744]

Happy Alex the big noises*

[@Red_Zed]

😅

[@qhu3878]

bactria is so fascinating to me, wonder what the region would be like had its greek culture established itself more

[@Red_Zed]

Me too I love it’s history! :)

[@CinaedmacAilpin1874]

There's actually some theories that the War of the Heavenly Horses led to Greek influences on Chinese Buddhism (hand signs on Greco-Bactrian coins are very similar to Buddhist handsigns in China) and Greek was spoken in the area for at least three centuries after the fall of the kingdom (and can be found on inscriptions from India and China even later), so we should not underestimate its impact :)

[@qhu3878]

@@CinaedmacAilpin1874 I'm not saying greek didnt influence the area, what I am saying is what would it be like if greek cemented itself more, as in what would the region look like if they still spoke greek at least 1000 years ago

[@CinaedmacAilpin1874]

@@qhu3878 Sure, that would have made quite a difference - I was merely pointing out that there was already quite an influence :)

[@-Cookie-122]

Probably manechism, christianity, or islam because manechism was the religeon of the silk road and converted the majority of the central Asian region, christianity due to it's sheer amount of evangelism and ideals of hope they may bring, and islam because... well conquest they could be conquered by a caliphate.

[@BamBamGT1]

Damn, the Bactria campain I'm doing right now felt like a walk through the park compared to this campaign. Maurya ignored me, then they collapsed and it was a pretty easy first war.

[@Red_Zed]

Yeah man, I’ve also had some nice runs as Bactria, that’s why I love Paradox games they are so variable. RNGesus can be merciful but also you can feel his wrath 😭😆

[@septinum8726]

Treating with the Selikids was like that protien video, "This mission will make the selukids hate us, so we will send an insult just in case" and a sec later, "We send another insult"

[@Red_Zed]

Haha yeah 😂

[@SIRO_GLYDER]

Central Asian history is so underrated, Bactrians especially but also the more recent nations too

[@Red_Zed]

Very true, lots of incredibly influential nations have originated in Central Asia. Persia, Parthia, the Ottoman Turks to name the big ones

[@SIRO_GLYDER]

@@Red_Zedyep, one of my favourite battles also happened in Central Asia, I really recommend looking into the battle of saragarhi. It was a heroic last stand of 21 British Sikh soldiers in only a signal post against a 10,000+ strong Afghan militia, they held down fort long enough for the two forts around it to receive supplies and reinforcement to protect the raj territory- if they hadn’t held them at bay for so long then the forts around it would have fallen

[@SIRO_GLYDER]

I think there was a death count of around 200 afghans however the casualty count was much higher, not a single Sikh abandoned his post

[@Red_Zed]

I will look it up thanks man, 21 is crazy brave. Oh and I somehow forgot the Mughals 😅

[@qhu3878]

​@@Red_Zed the mughals, timurids, seljuqs, kwarezmians, sassanids, saffarids. persia has been the home of so many powerful empires throughout history, afghanistan may be the graveyard of empires but iran is the homeland of empire

[@p.8829]

Love the Imperator Rome content

[@Red_Zed]

Thanks man :)

[@idontlikerome2744]

Its always welcome

[@josephquinnswolin3500]

War for heavenly horses...a fucking war for horses is the most Chinese thing i heard

[@Red_Zed]

Not just horses bro, HEAVENLY Horses 😅

[@espionageant518]

Bactria my beloved.

[@Red_Zed]

❤️

[@xk1390]

Very nice! It would also help you a lot if you sometimes used the advanced fort assault technique. It needs micromanagement, but you conquer forts in days with limited casualties. Try it out, it can be very useful! Also, your armies are taking a lot of attrition bc of their size. You can split at least in half and keep them in adjacent territories.

[@Red_Zed]

Cool, please explain I don’t know the advanced assault bit? :) Yeah I did split them up somewhat but in the wars we faced so many enemies I thought best to keep them together for the majority of the wars :)

[@jancybulski5642]

the bigest problem with imperator that i have in my games is the random posibility of getin low pralys ruler with lavys and just lossing hard

[@Red_Zed]

Yeah tbf that is annoying

[@rabidfurify]

The greek immigration mission is broken, for some reason the event which makes the immigration actually happen just doesn't exist (it's missing in the mission files, there's even a gap in the numbering system where it should go)

[@Red_Zed]

Oh fair that’s strange lol I thought it was weird that it seemed to do nothing

[@rabidfurify]

@@Red_Zed It's actually quite easy to fix if you understand how Paradox scripting works as there's an almost identical mission from a later Bactrian mission tree which works perfectly

[@Red_Zed]

Cool, unfortunately I don’t know anything about that stuff lol

[@Erisdwarfplanet]

u thought bacteria💀

[@Red_Zed]

😆

[@zarbootshrek]

My boy did it!

[@Red_Zed]

👌

[@MrIncredible1495]

Tho is my top #1 favourite nation to play as , you have a huge army (biggest in the game) and the mission trees are so unique and fun. Like for me I have 102 levies from bactriana and 111 from gandhara and 64 from maru. So a huge army after you do some of the indo Greek mission tree. After you finish all the mission trees I heard you conquer all of Persia India and like the northern part where Parthia is. Basically everything east of Anatolia. And you change your name to the “ euthydemid empire”

[@Red_Zed]

Is this vanilla bro because I didn’t get that on Invictus? :)

[@MrIncredible1495]

@@Red_Zedno it is invictus. I only got large armies after integrating the gandharan culture and the greco-indian culture. And it was after i finished the indo greek kingdom mission tree. After that mission tree is one called “down the ganges”

[@Red_Zed]

Ahh cool

[@jesushidalgo6710]

I love your videos 🤩

[@Red_Zed]

Thanks man! 👌

[@Romanempire809]

how can i play Persis?

[@Red_Zed]

You have a decent army, insult the Seleucids right away (maybe multiple times) so you don’t get dragged into the Antigonid war. Wait until most of their troops are west (you can even wait until Bactria becomes independent too if you want) and then declare independence focussing on the rich lands in Babylon. Don’t drag the war out too long, blitz through the forts and take what you can get. After that the Seleucids should start falling apart somewhat and you should be good :)

[@Romanempire809]

@Red_Zed ok but how do I get an independent Persis?

[@Red_Zed]

Sorry when I say declare independence, you have to declare war on the Seleucids for independence. You get nice ticking warscore because the wargoal is holding your capital province :)

[@Romanempire809]

@@Red_Zed yea but I meant when I choose the nation that I wanna play as?

[@Red_Zed]

Imperator Invictus mod bro

[@jeffreywong33]

Han dyansty never fought against Baktria, Han did fought a battle with Fergana valley city state , region that baktria already lost control (baktria was already overrun by Scythian)

[@Red_Zed]

The rulers adopted the Greek Alphabet and maintained Greek Gods in their pantheons, + the actual Bactrian kingdom only fell around 20 years or so before the War of the Heavenly Horses, so there was still a very significant Greek influence in the area. It is noted in sources that the Han described the people there as Dayuan, which means great ionians, so even if they were no longer a recognisably unified kingdom like Bactria the Greco-Bactrian influence and was still hugely significant at the time to the region But anyway it was a cool bit of history of the region I didn’t want to leave out

[@panasolomondos7432]

Id you finished your Rome campaign begin a new one with pirus of epirus .Pirus wanted basically to be the alexander of the west .

[@Red_Zed]

Pyrrhus will be done when we get to E, which tbf isn’t too far away now :)

[@Adventeuan]

Pyrrhus was the coolest general for his time. Sad how he died.

[@Red_Zed]

Ironic to say the least

[@jakekilley9037]

bro i feel you im 200 years after end game my bosporan game theres just 100s of thousand of troops moving at a time the smallest merc company atm is 44.5k lol

[@Red_Zed]

Omg haha that’s mad

[@kristianaaberg7882]

Ally with Maurya to guard your back while focusing on the west?

[@Red_Zed]

Good idea, and also pick off some of smaller guys inbetween Maurya and Bactria :)

[@alfieingrouille1528]

Cool

[@Red_Zed]

Thanks :)

[@ichliebedes2640]

I don't understand why u can't take war reparations or money in peace deals in this game

[@Red_Zed]

Me neither it’s kind of weird but I guess you take a lot of pops and money from sacking cities anyway which makes up for it a little

[@MausOfTheHouse]

You said A to Zee, not Zed This is treasonous

[@Red_Zed]

😭😭

[@creed2552]

Be it declared by Zeus himself Bactria to be the rightful heir of the Makedonian Empire of Alexander the Great and of the Indus Valley civilization!!

[@Phoenix-fromash]

What the actual f

[@creed2552]

​@@Phoenix-fromash what?

[@Red_Zed]

👌

[@jendreg1935]

Let's goo, you should convert to Buddhism like the Indo-Greeks did historically

[@Red_Zed]

Aim is to spread Hellenism into India to do what they couldn’t in real life ;)

[@jendreg1935]

@@Red_Zed Lame

[@Red_Zed]

Thanks

[@jendreg1935]

@Red_Zed No prob mate

[@Red_Zed]

Sound m8 sound

[@maximdrager3639]

PLEAAAAZSEE

[@Red_Zed]

Ok

[@ВикторКовш-н3г]

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[@Red_Zed]

Nice 👌