I REFUSE to let this game die

RIGHT LADS, Today we're playing Imperator Rome. This game is too good to just fade into obscurity i've decided so here we are playing Paradox's best kept secret. To be honest i am suprised we haven't covered the actual nation of Rome itself thus far but here we are. Also for those of you about to comment that is is sacreligious that i have been photoshopped onto a Roman consul... Y'know what comment away.
I REFUSE to let this game die
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[@khanofkhans391]

This man is a legend for keeping Imperator alive

[@makiskanyt9269]

Him and swimmy

[@pieceofschmidtgamer]

@@makiskanyt9269 And Lord Lambert.

[@ItIsYouAreNotYour]

Why did this game fail this bad? I know it had like a rehaul at one point. I actually have it from a bundle or something. Tried it for 10 minutes and was just done with it. Didn't give it a fair shake.

[@makiskanyt9269]

@@ItIsYouAreNotYour many things, it's the argument of the vic3 combat but for imperitor stuff like colonization

[@jacklovejoy5290]

@@ItIsYouAreNotYour The original launch was shit, the update made it great but it was too late

[@justrugut9082]

Laith treating this game like that ex that he just can't let go of

[@lerojenko2517]

This is a violation

[@ItIsYouAreNotYour]

And she's not even hot or worth it.

[@antorseax9492]

He went to a DnD session?

[@DylanKnighting]

@@antorseax9492DnD players get girlfriends?

[@Swan_River_Cowboy]

@@DylanKnighting DnD players girlfriend are often the DM

[@KleinesStein]

Laith always meets the girl, but the girl has yet to stay 😢

[@Gamereal6286]

I wouldn't worry about that. One girl will stay eventually and that one will not be toxic and manipulative.

[@HumanPerson_final]

You know, if he'd go on his dates wearing his Red Hawk cosplay, he'd have women all over him. No doubt.

[@deusvult6920]

Most women aren't worth your time today

[@jeao7115]

@@deusvult6920 just not true but okay

[@DsgSleazy]

​@@deusvult6920How many heartbreaks does one have to go through, or how gay for andrew tate red pill gurus does a mf have to be to genuinely hold this dumbass opinion? Like go outside, talk to a normal girl for a minute, and I guarantee you'll see how great women are.

[@paulyotzuar2788]

Bro is definitely not meeting a girl

[@fildafernandes4366]

180 likes and no reply? Let me fix that

[@sillycritic9649]

​@@fildafernandes4366 This clown even liked his own comment 🤮

[@martijn3015]

If she isn't a Roman and not living in 200BC, then I guess not.

[@callumge]

Meeting a girl (boy)

[@lord_duckian9521]

My guy got that seduction scheme at max, don’t question him bro

[@igor8770]

This game has so much potential, it's a shame they've abandoned it!

[@Alistar608]

THE WILL COME BACK OR I REBEL 😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

[@МаксБурый-р2ю]

Damn leviathan

[@ColonelBragg]

I think it could have used some additional start dates like Caesars conquest of Gaul and such. The current start date is is like playing EU4 on shattered world mode aka the thing no one ever uses because it sucks.

[@goldenhate6649]

@@ColonelBragg To be fair, the shattered world sucks because lag and the claims system. And well, at the start date in imperator, the world kinda was shattered

[@DzhokharDudayev-kr9mi]

For me the best part is you can actually move your pops and through it even change a culture of a province. I love playing with demographics and i hope future Paradox games will have similar features. Also the soundtrack in Imperator rome is really good and fitting to the atmosphere.

[@stefanolaino4901]

Laith thanks for doing this, Imperator deserves way more

[@peytondrews703]

I'm holding out hope that Paradox gives it life once again.

[@alexh3298]

It’s one or two updates from being the best paradox game.

[@Thermonnuclear]

@@alexh3298 so true

[@RF_N]

@@alexh3298 W

[@mattgames7543]

For those that are intrigued - This game is currently 75% off on steam, and the mod Laith is using double functions as a sort of constant stream of updates and dlc. Honestly, they've done loads so far. I'd recommend it! Edit: Mod is called Imperator: Invictus. It is endorsed by the devs, and they even updated the game to make it easier to mod, just for this mod!! Invictus is essentially its own dev team adding consistent updates to the game, fixing content, and adding content such as nations, areas of the map, mission trees and game mechanics.

[@TheLibermania]

How can he keep the game alive if he uses a mod? Or is it without too boring?

[@mattgames7543]

@@TheLibermania Devs stopped supporting it, so there is a mod team supporting it instead by providing content for nations etc

[@TheLibermania]

@@mattgames7543 Yeah, but that isn't the game anymore then.

[@mattgames7543]

@@TheLibermania that’s a very weird way of looking at it but each to their own

[@angelcabeza6464]

@@TheLibermania then dont complain and dont getthe game god you people have no brain

[@Kasaaz]

I wonder if there are any devs from this game wondering, "Where was this guy a few years ago?!"

[@fifa4lifeunknow795]

😢

[@navnnavn1226]

Well Invictus modders were responsible for salvaging the game imo

[@Kasaaz]

@@navnnavn1226 I just said this in the newest video... apparently mods can save a game. I'm always impressed when modders see enough in a game that they want to invest that kind of effort. :D

[@malikan5539]

Laith doing God's work keeping providing copium for a revival of this game!

[@ArakkoaChronicles]

*Jove's work

[@robertotarter7839]

@@ArakkoaChronicles Deus', I hope we can all agree on that! 😉

[@wouldntyouliketoknowdeli7640]

Laith fresh off of saying that he'll never form Rome on the channel again, immediately records a video about forming Rome.

[@jetex1911]

This time he isn't forming Rome *again*, he's doing it for the first time this timeline. Totally different

[@Ryverr641]

technically it already existed

[@trabezuntine]

honestly still wish they'd update this game, it had so much promise

[@SplendidFactor]

It could still happen. People were surprised when Rome 2 received a surprise DLC in the form of Empire Divided, and a family tree update as well. If more people buy and play this game, Paradox will notice, and divert resources towards it.

[@chicken4976]

It was updated not too long ago.

[@timerunhistory2604]

@@chicken4976 yeah and that maintenance patch says This is not a revival, do not expect new content

[@zigedelic3909]

@@chicken4976 Unfortunately that update is a kind of "exception that proves the rule" kind of deal. It was an incredibly small bugfix patch that was only rolled out 'cus one of the devs wanted to help the guys over at Imperator Invictus, a mod that explicitly exists because PDX stopped updating the game

[@compatriot852]

Imperator Rome really deserved better. Shame paradox pulled the plug right when it was getting good The game honestly needed a modified ck2 system to better represent civil wars and court/senate politics The second thing the game seriously needed was an extended timeline with more dynamic events like the rise of Christianity or something like the crisis of the third century

[@seanm241]

adding more starting timelines would likely introduce the problem eu4 has where keeping all the starts updated and fun gets harder and harder as more content is released until the later start dates are basically unplayable

[@history7501]

​@@seanm241 not adding timelines probably talking about making the end date longer maybe to ad

[@sebe2255]

@@seanm241 Maybe but Impertor is basically over when it starts.

[@Infidi]

@@sebe2255 yup, I had the same reaction when I gave played march of the eagles a try: "that's it?"

[@ne0nmancer]

I think they can still salvage the game if interest keeps up, but maybe it's the copium i've been inhaling.

[@fubuma534]

Laith, if she worried about headphone hair, she ain’t the one. They need to look past the slightly saddled’fro and see the Imperator within

[@matheusGMN]

Apparently Laith's bachelor's degree was in Archeology, because he loves to dig up this dead game for videos x)

[@shaneoneill2233]

Last time I was this early Ireland was called Hibernia

[@shaneoneill2233]

anyway me needs sleep

[@p.r.o.d9685]

No sleep is for the weak

[@acob8cob849]

Interestingly enough, Imperator: Rome seems to be the turning point for paradox games, it is a cursed attempt from paradox at moving from the "classic" look their games had to a more 3d and "realistic" one.

[@LoganAntonick]

I'd like to see this campaign continued

[@Gamereal6286]

When the game wanted to die but Laith refused (Untertale reference). Also good luck with your meeting but knowing you it won't be necessary. 😊

[@334outdoors8]

Laith is such a good guy not only did he single-handedly keep this game alive he also was a pallbearer at my funeral and did so so well that came back to life

[@Jojtek22]

Seeing you enjoying Imperator so much made me pick this game again and I had an amazing campaign as Aksum. Thanks mate! Keep Imperator content coming, it's great :3

[@socialistrepublicofvietnam1500]

Based Laith reviving dead games

[@gregoiredefloris7286]

Laith, you can split your navy to give people admiralty, that's a position they're happy with

[@Aerozona23]

Thank you for continuing to play this game, seeing someone of your channel status playing this game inspires me to keep modding the game!

[@SquirrelMaestro]

You shouldn’t let it die. You are my hero

[@stuckupcurlyguy]

The random freakouts when you run out of grain shipments seems VERY on-brand for a Roman aristocrat.

[@johnconnor8206]

Day 55 of asking for you to play Victoria 2 as cuba and become Fidel castro

[@johnconnor8206]

Do it you will

[@johnconnor8206]

I call upon the power of Burger King to help me

[@purpledevilr7463]

I’d like to see a pt2. Getting historical Roman borders.

[@linkluver_izn]

love seeing this !!! makes me so excited, thank you so much for covering it again, hope to see more !

[@SlavYuriy]

I just want this game to continue :(

[@abaidha4677]

NGL. This game has the best mission mechanic out of all other paradox games in my opinion. The problem with this game is that i only play it so bad. No matter what country i played, how big it already is, i still getting out numbered by the computer 3 to 4 times bigger than my number.

[@Gorg-oe1hu]

Hope this game gets revived. I have 500 hours in it and ive enjoyed every minute of it.

[@fifa4lifeunknow795]

The last DLC we got and the last update man it was 10/10 and then they just killed it

[@duskpede5146]

i still think imperator's game engine would have been the best suited for a post apocalypse mod like after the end or the hoi4 fallout one. because in other games they really have to force the game to fit the setting or the setting to fit the game but not so much in imperator, there's a reason why the legion in new Vegas are based off of the Romans, its a very similar era of civilisation.

[@EricGray-uq2mc]

I personally liked the game its a shame they don't update it anymore. It was short lived :(

[@felosia631]

I really want to get into this but I have no clue how to do anything and most tutorials died after the game did :P

[@history7501]

A lot of old tutorials still are helpful for some.of the basics

[@copiusgrimus6671]

Let the other lads on the imarator wagon so paradox comes back to this

[@hanshanson7156]

The Invictus mod is singlehandedly keeping the game alive, this is SO much fun. So many nations updated and formed into something great.

[@theautomaticfiend]

we need a coordinated campaign from paradoxers to get IR support back, it's way to good now to be left in the state its in.

[@ohNojames]

Just wait for your legion’s general to become disloyal and your main force is just doing whatever it wants lol. The Diadochi wars are in fact pretty hectic and it’s always been super easy for me to totally lose because of how the CB works during the life of the starting rulers.

[@sevilla82400]

You should check out the Invictus mod, it breathes life into many regions that desperately needed some attention.

[@Galaick]

He's already playing with the mod, you can tell because he actually needs to import food, and there's spearman units. Wish he said it though, so more people knew about it

[@meanderinginterests2655]

He gives a shoutout to invictus at the end

[@deeznoots6241]

He’s using it, in the nation selection screen he has all the mission trees from the mod

[@deeznoots6241]

@@Galaicktbf I’ve had to import food in vanilla, but that’s usually something I have to do later in the game when my capital province has 500+ pops

[@jbb4105]

this game has always looked really interesting I wish I wasn’t broke 😕

[@Giganfan2k1]

Getting everything right now is like $20 right now. The base came is under $10.

[@miguelpadeiro762]

🏴‍☠️

[@jbb4105]

@@Giganfan2k1 yeah I wish I wasn’t broke

[@ilmazzini1496]

Laith single handedly keeping Imperator: Rome alive...

[@anti-spiral159]

Thank Carthage he finally used anything but the DODORODORODOOO, DODOO, DODOO, DODODODODODODODODODOOO, DORDUUU, DORDUUU, DODURDUDUDURDUDURUDUDUDUUUUUUwwrwrwrw_wrwrw_ in the background :D tho I expected a continuation of the persian game but, anything is cool.

[@theohedgpeth261]

Thank you for also being someone who enjoys this game. It has its flaws, but it's still fun.

[@MrRoyalOss]

Laith losing ships and rebuilding each time...very historical route.

[@parazitkolol]

This video made me buy the game, thanks Laith!

[@zigedelic3909]

Give Cappadocia a go! They got a massive mission tree added in the latest Imperator: Invictus patch that lets you choose 4 different paths to take them! My personal favourite is the Eumenid kingdom/empire, 'cus Eumenes of Cardia was a g. He served as a secretary to Phillip II and as personal secretary of Alexander but wasn't Macedonian, the highest ranking non-Macedonian afaik

[@seanm241]

very based of you to use the IR soundtrack

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

Whether Rome's rise was surefire or not, this game really makes it seem like Rome's rise was surefire. Right off the bat, they have four vassals, each with their own troops. They already are the best in their region for quality and quantity. *And they only snowball from there.* Good luck playing anyone in Gaul; even good luck won't save you.

[@UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana]

Rome probably had good enough institutions 🏛 to survive as a strong vassal/province with its own cultural traditions. Though the British being so strong is pretty much entirely due to the nation's luck 🍀 getting an absurd amount of crisis shock ⚡ (and a bit by being close enough to other strong nations to learn from them) from disasters such as the Black Death and friends. Though really any generic nation that got such luck would gain basically British culture as a result. So I guess it that sense some nation had to be lucky 🍀 and basically its timeline's Britian.

[@markusowens-ld9wt]

Cool that this game is kinda coming back to youtube

[@alicall8779]

first my g

[@AHappyCub]

Man, i miss the old days of conquering using only light cavs due to how cheap yet powerful they are

[@victorliu6443]

Classic first time playing Rome and not knowing how to handle fort capacity per province and losing gold 😂.

[@joshuamonroy2779]

And then he goes and let’s it die, no imperator Rome video in a whole month my guy I’m waiting with my phone in hand waitingggggg for a notificationnnnnnn for imperator romeeeeeeeeeee!!!!

[@mcjesus9975]

Rebuilt the roman empire as Aragon, how many likes to MAKE the Roman Empire in Imperator?

[@darth_virtus]

Refusing to let this game die untill he has learned how it works. Good that its a paradox title, they take some 1000 hours to learn

[@onsholo]

I think Imperator is much better by the fact that Paradox is staying away from it rather than flooding it with shit like they are doing with their other games

[@ColonelBragg]

You know until I stumbled onto this video I had forgotten that I own this game. I really regret buying it in hindsight.

[@hueylong4412]

Thanks for the daily uploads they are amazing to chill out and watch after a long day

[@zondor8123]

Nah let it die as a message to paradox so they dont mess up their new releases. its bad for business

[@goldenwarh]

i blame this game for making me think other paradox games’ maps are ugly as hell

[@arvidgreat]

Paradox should NEVR had let this game go, its their own damn fult that they made imperiator so bare bones no one wanted to play, same with vic3

[@drgonzo1971]

don't abandon the normal music, it's a key part of the magic

[@sizanogreen9900]

I mean I really enjoyed it when I first started watching this channel but now much much later I don't even really percieve it anymore...

[@clarity984]

rip to the trumpets

[@thehydra730]

Laith not playing Tunis for once in the game where they are probably the most viable. Ironic.

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

Alright, now try Massilia. Objective: Survive.

[@anishpatel898]

We need to see Laith in a toga during one playthrough... or on a date

[@thelheo7763]

I am so happy to see more Imperator content! you are doing the work of the roman gods!

[@Prayingmantis78]

Good luck with the girl my guy

[@Sephyroth97]

The Imperator: Invictus modpack is the reason people still touch this

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

So, in Imperator: Rome, you can set your armies to do various automated tasks, like "Carpet Siege" or "Independent Operations." It's a big help if you don't think you can manage everyone and everything!

[@malchelo-7627]

I'm sure your mom won't mind if you have headphone hair, Laith :)

[@furioni333]

okay you convinced me to give it a try - bought the game on the sale ^^

[@rowanwalter6306]

Dang, I’m early. Four views

[@anishpatel898]

Game is on sale for 75%, Pack is only around $17 USD,. Finally buying the game because of you Laith

[@gockroach431]

It's soooo good without the royalty free music laith 💖💖💎

[@auag7208]

Seeing a girl after this? Are we getting another Assam campaign?

[@jetex1911]

Congrats, you got me to play the game for 15 hours!

[@TheColombianSpartan]

Lads, Imperator is like 10 euros right now 9I do not know how much that is in Freedom coinage, but i think its similar) and the Centurion bundle is only 16. Go get it now!

[@Karsuuue]

Once more to fix your starvation problem: Take a province that has no city and in which you can't build Farming Settlements, then build Slave Estates. They give local food production and also gives a region surplus for the cities, since they take their food out of the region and not only the city province.

[@costantinochianale4904]

YESSSS!!!!!! Love Imperator

[@faisalmm4620]

Man even paradox couldn’t do what laity did

[@purpledevilr7463]

Are you meeting the same girl from the Assam game?

[@Marshmobilise]

THANK YOU as one of only 300-400 people still regularly playing this game I love this! I am still so salty as PDX for killing IR, especially seeing as Sega totally bungled the Rome Total War reboot we are DYING for a truly 10/10 Roman grand strat. Hegemony: Rise of Caesar is a close second and I love the Hegemony series but its not quite the same as Total War or IR. I hate PDX's DLC policy but id have paid good money for DLC that extended the timeline all the way to the ultimate collapse of the Western Roman Empire including the Barbarian Migrations. The region of Marcus Auralias, the rise and spread of Christianity in the empire, the splitting of east and west, the wars with the Parthians, the rebellions, the civil wars, the palace coups- and that's just the Roman centered content- so many nations and people in IR are under-developed- the Dacians, the Arabs, the proto-"Spanish", the Gauls all could have had DLC and content packs that i'd have paid for because I LOVE this time period more than any other time period PDX covers, but apparently I'm one of a tiny minority so fuck me and my wants and desires I guess.

[@kevinstein1568]

well this is a new sort of early for me

[@mr.crowgamer6250]

Try a minor next maybe Epirus or tribal

[@MrEddySpain]

A few things that i learned while playing this game: - instead of using your import routes from your capital to buy a bunch grain, use it to have a surplus of several resources. That will give you benefits to the whole nation. Especially you can have surplus of resources than give you happines of pops (nobles, citizens, freeman). More happines = less problems. -You integrated the umbrians, but they don't have a huge amount of people. Each culture that you integrate make the other integrated cultures less happy, so integrate the cultures that have more pops when is convenient. For example, the etruscan have a huge amount, so if you integrate them, your army grow significantly, which you will need for your wars with Carthage. The rest of the cultures will slowly assimilate to roman culture (there are specifics buildings in your city that help you with that, as well as laws). -Buildings give you civilization, wich make your people happy, and over time, you will have less barbarians messing your territory. There are 3 buildings that give you more civilization, as well as help you convert people towards your religion and assimilite them and give you loyalty to the province. You will need to research the techs for those buildings (temples, theaters and the last one i don't remember the english name, sorry). -Sometimes, when you finish a war, the recently conquered provinces have foods problems. If you have the whole province conquered sometimes it fixes itself soon after the peace. - Magna grecia tends to rebel, good luck with that xD - When you make your legion, have in mind the combat sistem is different from EU4. There are to lines, but only the first engaged in battle, the second only reinforced when there are casualties in the first line. You put archers i guess thinking they would attack from the second line? but everyone is attacking from the first line, and the archers don't have many benefits against the rest.

[@a-drewg1716]

So laith was kind of right, though not perfectly. In many ancient civilizations, like Rome, slavery was viewed as morally ok because the slaves were lesser people. They were non-civilians and barbarians and so by enslaving them it allowed them to live almost like people (like Romans) really the only major difference was that ancient slavery was entirely focused on culture. These people were lesser because they weren't Romans. Now this wasn't true for all civilizations. Many civilizations didn't view slavery as if they were doing anything morally correct. Instead slavery was correct simply due to the fact that they conquered them. Example of this would be the Spartans. They conquered their neighbors and so their neighbors and all of their descents were slaves. Early modern slavery meanwhile was focused more on race. It also did have a pretty extreme focus on the morality of slavery. This is because of Christianity. See Christianity directly calls out slavery as evil, and in most European nations at the time slavery was in some manner actually banned and wasn't really outright practices (of-course serfdom was basically a form of slavery but technically they were freemen). So once these nations turned to slavery they had to somehow justify it through their religion. IE the bible says that all men (human) were created in gods image. Enslaving a person then was, in some way enslaving god, but what if you weren't enslaving an actual person. Of-course the bible does have some... unsavory passages about slavery (I don't believe there is any direct passage in the bible that says "though shalt not enslave") but the generally consensus by theologians at the time was that slavery was suppose to be immoral and against god.

[@Marshmobilise]

19:42 Most Succeasful Roman Naval Operation hahahaha (irl the Roman's time and again invested huge sums of men and money into massive navies only to be totally rekt by Carthage or a massive storm, or in the case of trying to storm Syracuse harbour, an effin DEATH RAY built and designed by Archimedes)

[@Jay2JayGaming]

First tip. Pin your ruler, and set them to gather political influence. Just leave them on that their entire lives, and check back every once in a while to ensure the mission is still going. Political influence is usually the limiting resource as time goes on, especially because of how expensive cities are (and you'll be wanting to spam those). Depending on how poor you are, you may need to prioritize gold- but that's generally only something you'll do early on or if you're trying to build a wonder. Loyalty in this game is really important. For instance, your political influence generation is largely dependent on the loyalty of the characters holding office, so prioritize getting loyal characters into office. Unless that office is just too fucking important and your only loyal option is some demented gremlin with the education of a pre-schooler, get the most loyal people you can. If they aren't above 90 loyalty, bribe them or give them free hands. That being said, unless you have enough sources of ticking corruption reduction, free hands turns them into a ticking timebomb you'll have to remove eventually. If they have some sort of trait that gives them ticking corruption, this will be sooner rather than later, but if the ticking reduction is limited to around -0.05, you'll be fine for a few decades before it becomes a problem. But once it becomes a problem- hoo boy. Anyway, for ticking corruption reduction, there's an oratory idea that gives it, a law (for republics), and ticking high character wages. There's also some later techs that reduce it. Get as many of these as you can, and if anybody starts looking at you funny, bribe them and give them free hands. If they are, however, too problematic, imprison and execute them, which brings me to my next tip. Tyranny is really good in this game. It makes your Aggressive Expansion decay faster, 'motivates' the slaves, and reduces the expense of imprisoning and executing people, so it's actually pretty meta to run high tyranny (>20 at least, I usually run 40-50). That being said, tyranny also reduces character loyalty (-0.12 a point so not by much) and reduces the threshold for civil war, so the better you are at managing character loyalty and powerbase, the higher you can run your tyranny, and the more aggressive you can be with removing political rivals and the faster you can civilize the barbarians. Ah, in case you don't know, every character has an abstracted amount of 'power base' depending on their personal holdings, position in government, whether or not they head a notable family, are a governer, etc. All that really matters here is the amount of political power they hold in comparison to other characters, helpfully displayed by a percentage value. The aforementioned 'threshold for civil war' is the percentage of powerbase in your nation that must be held by disloyal characters for a civil war to pop. This isn't _too_ terribly hard to manage, because you can generally just throw them a bone and they'll be fine. This does however, get harder the larger your empire is, and the more generally disloyal the characters in your nation are. One more thing, on the subject of technology, when selecting tech guys, you may notice some of the characters there have special traits. These traits will randomly give you an innovation. The math works out in your favor if you prioritize these traits, because your tech generation gets into diminishing returns really quickly- the higher the tech level the slower the generation, and the lower the tech level the faster the generation. In other words, you're going to be rubber banded within a certain amount of tech progress anyway, but the innovations from the traits don't count against this. Also, there are two ways to generate income: trade and slaves- and slaves make trade better too because territories generate an extra resource for some given amount of slaves depending on your buildings and tech. It's all about finding territories with high value trade goods for export, like precious metals, and building a settlement on it with a mine- or a city if you can stack a bunch of slaves. Like, a fuck ton of slaves. Cities are generally better than settlements, but make sure not to build cities on provinces with food, unless you have a really good reason. Cities can't make food, so to feed them you either need a fuck ton of trade routes supplying them with it, or you need to manage the amount of food generated by the settlements there to ensure no one starves to death. All the food generated by every settlement in the province goes into a communal basket all the territories share, with cities being the ones to store the food with granaries. Happiness makes pops produce more stuff, so make sure to keep them happy! Except slaves of course, they always generate 100% of their output no matter their happiness. Anyway, manage their happiness with buildings, laws, giving them stuff in the culture tab, assimilating them into your culture, converting them into your religion (pops of your religion convert to your culture faster, btw), tech, and trade goods. Here's a link to an explanation on religious and cultural conversion: www.reddit.com/r/Imperator/comments/lnrtmn/culture_assimilationreligious_conversion_101/ Lastly, migration is a powerful way of stealing pops from other nations. Get as much as you can, and especially be sure to have at least one port in every province you can. Also, build roads. _Build roads the moment you can_. Link fucking everything, but especially make sure you have nice arterials through your empire for military movements. If you have a bunch of gold and nowhere else to put it, start linking all the individual territories together from every possible direction- as roads specifically exist as connections between two individual territories. If one territory is touching seven others, you can build seven roads to it. There's an oratory idea that gives it, a law (for republics), and ticking high character wages.

[@D4v3Serious]

Rise of Rome is basically w40k and Rome is Empire Of Mankind, surviving everything universe(world) throws at them. Several times there were catastrophes when they could´ve been obliterated, but they overcame alot of them and survived for a long long time.

[@Old_Harry7]

If only Paradox didn't messed up the UI this game would've have become a massive hit. Overwhelming UI it's a bit of a trend in recent Paradox Games, CK III and VIC III are perhaps the best example one could make but sadly Imperator Rome started the trend in the first place and that was in my opinion the reason for its downfall.

[@maxkaufmann833]

Laith its very fascinating you brought up slavery. If you'd ever want to read more into it, Orlando Patterson has a great book on the topic. "Slavery and Social Death: A Contemporary Study".

[@micayahritchie7158]

I'm literally subscribed to the channel and KZbin just showed me this video like. "People who watch one proud Bavarian also watch this channel." I'm like yes I know I'm one of them. Am I the only one that's happened to?

[@xsithspawnx]

19:37 Ah, yes. The grand Roman tradition of building up an expensive navy to fight a superior naval power, only to have it end disasterously when they realize they don't have actually have experienced sailors or naval commanders to man it. I love the roleplay. 😉 It's great seeing Imperator Rome content, though. Keep it up!

[@Sissasquatch]

A lot of Roman slaves were captives from war, it wasn't really a racial/religious things. For example most Roman nobles spoke Greek, but Greek slaves were highly prized (cause they were often up to date on all the cool kid Greek plays etc.) The clothes a citizen wore were more indicative of their social status than skin colour

[@Infidi]

This game... is sad. It would have been a decent eu4 alternative if they got rid of the character "focus" (more like annoyance) or it could have been a decent ck2 alt if they focused fully on the chars and not the "nation states". So you could play as a governor, a claimant, a ruler, a revolter etc. Because rn chars are just an annoyance that you have to bribe or else they'll revolt. Speaking of revolts, ck2 had such a great system. Your vassals want x so they join a faction with like minded individuals to have their demands heard, when they feel like they are strong enough they send an ultimate and you can either give in or fight. In inperator, a number goes red and there will be a revolt in a specific number of months. Nothing you can do about it except bribe because the "characters" aren't characters, they don't have their own agendas and ambitions, there are no negotiations which can take place because rebels don't want anything, their number simply dropped below a certain value.

[@gamesarefun1338]

Laith has to play Imperator Rome in order to increase his rizz

[@OMGWTFBBQLMAOLOL]

The game is pretty polished, I had a playthrough a few months ago and the one thing I did not get is how the heck do pirates always have 30-40 more ships then me when I try to build to their limit I would literally bankrupt ROME :D