Imperator: Rome - Guide - 5 Fun Starts

Welcome to my Imperator: Rome guide, highlighting 5 fun starts.
These starts are all with the 2.0 Marius Update version of Imperator: Rome.
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
2:02 - Arvernia
6:47 - Kush
11:15 - Heraclea Pontica
16:44 - Bosporan Kingdom
21:01 - Massalia
25:22 - Outro
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[@dexwrex7594]

As Massalia you start with 3 military trees, and with some expansion in the region (gaelic and italic tribes) you will be able to unlock another 3 more

[@Qladstone]

14:45 This is how you introduce difficulty options to a game, not AI buffs! Damn I love this so much.

[@WilliamLawrence7]

I am so loving this 2.0 update, Been playing it nonstop since release! Between this and now Ancient Empires mod for Attila total war dropping today, I'm in heaven over here!

[@perseusjackson3637]

I don’t think I’ve even played Rome yet. There are just too many interesting nations... Doesn’t help that most of the time I just wanna play Sparta lol

[@jxslayz6663]

FACTS. Its actually a challenging start.

[@carlramirez6339]

Rome gets all the best events because the devs want Rome to expand like OTL. I am currently doing an Antigonid Kingdom --> Macedon playthrough. About 100 years into the game, I allied with Rome. Even before they expanded out of the Italian Peninsula, they could supply me with over 40k troops, which were critical to me winning against Egypt and the Seleukid Empire. I made sure to vassal feed to remain under 500 territories. Soon, I will be able to attack Maurya to conquer the last 2 territories needed to form the Argead Empire. Rome also seems to be prone to rebellions, but they always manage to win. Being allied to them, I get called into war whenever this happens. Since Rome loves building cities, I can always make a lot of money by sacking the cities of rebelling nations, even if I don't actually manage to gain land for myself or my allies.

[@jxslayz6663]

@@carlramirez6339 So the meta is, be sparta, and ally with rome? Got it!

[@perseusjackson3637]

Yeah basically. They can save your ass from the Diadochi in early-mid game. Help you take out Macedonia and Egypt

[@jxslayz6663]

@@perseusjackson3637 Tbh I always do this in Total war Rome 2. Except rome there is retarded, I legit have an entire spartan army and navy help them win their wars, and they still can't pull through. I also just continue to conquer Alexanders empire. Hoping that towards the end, theres a massive showdown between Sparta and Rome. I guess I can try to do that in Imperator. They play a custom battle of Rome 2 for to play the simulated battles of Imperator.

[@SenipLuff]

Aksum is my fave tbh, I did a Jewish aksum run once where I conquered everything south of Egypt. Sadly Egypt had conquered most of the diadochi and was twice as strong and draining all my resources just to fend him off every time he attacked, so I had this really good looking nation kind of chilling under Egypt.

[@Michedelic9]

I love that you tell the history of these nations, make more like this!

[@NapoleonBonaparde]

Massalia was like Venice and just like Venice got erased by a great General

[@ffreeze9924]

My favorite country to play recently has been the Gallic tribe of Parisia. In the grand scheme of things they are pretty weak, but have the advantage of starting with the city of Lutetia, some good land for playing tall, and at the crossroads of 3 regions meaning you can get a lot of levies early on

[@BlueViper8907]

Nailed Hereclea Pontica - Sad Tylos noises -

[@GettingGoodatGeoGuessr]

Bizarre and funny that Massalia had the same function as an insult in Ancient Greek culture as Coventry does in modern Britain.

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

😂

[@Kaiser282]

As Thebes, I started with the Spartikid dynasty as a great family. I bully them a lot.

[@dothedouglas1405]

I played as the Bosporan Kingdom for my first full run through. It was very fun but was very heavy on the independence wars because of mixed religion and culture.

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

Yeah that can get you

[@Qladstone]

I would love more! I like how there are so many fun little historical narratives than you can play with.

[@dothedouglas1405]

I’ve been waiting for this, thank you.

[@andresvkfouri]

I've only played the Bosporan Kingdom out of these, but it was a blast. A tip for those playing it as a beginner (which I really recommend): you can build forts on all the major river crossings between the Crimea and the Danube and make your realm pretty much impenetrable to outside powers (Thrace survived and really enjoyed trying to invade me in my game).

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

Great tip!

[@carlramirez6339]

You forgot Epirus. Pyrrhus is such a strong leader that I can conquer Magna Graecia in his lifetime and prevent the rise of Rome quite easily.

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

I considered them, but ultimately decided to go with others this time. He’ll certainly show up in a future guide

[@bahaigpt]

I had that experience pre-2.0 but after the update its hella hard.

[@Bleilock1]

After 2.0 epirus and even massalia most of the starts are unplayble due to rome just really wanting to stomp the player And rome kinda likes to take greece before starting punic wars

[@sirteddyIII]

I just started playing the game about a week ago, I’ve really enjoyed Sparta (it’s a very satisfying challenge) and Osismia (They have a great levy composition, have safe defensive positioning, and can form Armorica very early for a better government form, oh, and they can easily abandon gaul and just go to Brittania.)

[@TheBusbyBabes]

i love imperator rome and i love that you also make those videos for it. thank you

[@kiwi4998]

Yoooo! I just started watching this while loading up my Avernia game! So cool to see this come first

[@matthewarmstrong1609]

Nice one man, old school Asterix and Obelix fan aswell.

[@curt3494]

Cheers for taking the time to produce these videos 👍

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

Thanks for watching!

[@TheMrTDrain]

I was hoping someone would do this for this game. Thank you.

[@njfdeuS]

imperator rome content lets go

[@arthurdaffos1490]

Hello man, i love your imperator rome content, it helps me a lot to learn the game as a noob. Also i am a fan of the seleucid but struggle to play them, it would be great to see at some point faction guides to help new players getting familiar with the mechanics

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

I’ll put it on the list

[@MarkVrem]

I think the most interesting part of Kush would be conquering them as India going thru Axum and up into Egypt the soft underbelly of the Roman Empire. Skipping all the Macedon drama. On the other hand haven't played the game in a while not sure Naval and diplomatic capabilities are capable of that.

[@scorpioneldar]

Kush is a really fun start. it was my first non major power game.

[@g-lix7702]

THE KINGS OF KUSH

[@BamBamGT1]

Byblos was my favourite. Taking advantage of the diadochi wars, starting as Byblos (one of the 3 phoenician cities, but as byblos you have a unique trait) with some careful maneuvring you can take occupy north and south phoenicia in the opening war, take the 2 other phoenician cities, and form phoenicia. My second favorite was Sarmatia, and conquering the Bosporus and turning into my main region.

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

That’s a great start too

[@IMortage]

Sarmatia has god level cultural levies.

[@BamBamGT1]

@@IMortage I haven't played it yet in the latest update, haven't played the game in months actually. I just really like the scytho-sarmatian tribes. I wish they got an update, imo Sarmatia should be a formable kingdom. Sarmatia itself wasn't a thing, there were various Sarmatian tribes. Unite the Sarmatians!

[@americansyndicalist7602]

No love for Parthia? I don’t play the game, but I really like Parthia as a historic Persian Empire.

[@andresvkfouri]

There's a Parthia at the start, but it's not *the* Parthia (it's just a hellenic Seleukid vassal in the same region). You can form the Parthian empire by starting as one of the Dahae nomads on the Caspian coast, but it's a bit of a journey to get there.

[@americansyndicalist7602]

@@andresvkfouri in order to get Arsaces, do you have to form Dahae as Parnia specifically? (Since he was a member of the Parni Tribe of the irl Dahae). Or can you even do it with Scytha proper and get Arsaces?

[@Nighato]

@@americansyndicalist7602 they're both tier 3 nations so you can only form one or the other

[@Torag55]

@@americansyndicalist7602 you can do it with any Dahae culture faction. You just need to form Dahae and Arsaces the First will appear.

[@americansyndicalist7602]

@@Torag55 Cool

[@laurynasg9932]

Played in Iberia with big red faction in the south, was really fun to finally kick the carthage out of my land.

[@AvidanTheExpositor]

You are early to the reconquista

[@chrisbergonzi7977]

Much enjoyed...thanks pal...

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

Thanks for watching!

[@abeljenn-treyer6588]

I think that, in Gaul, an argument could be made for Biturigia. Indeed, "Biturigia" means "kings of the world". Moreover, there is an incredible French book series called "The Kings of the World", by Jean-Philippe Jaworski, set in ancient Gaul (which is very unique) . The book series is Amazingly well made, and just playing the kings of the world is a good boost to your ego. Sadly, it would seem there is no english Translation, so it might be a impossible to read if you're not familiar with French. A shame, honestly, cuz the book series is insane. Though, if you can familiarize yourself with Bellovesos (main character, legendary founder of Milan, who apparently went through the Alps), it's fine.

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

That sounds like a great book series

[@derAlphabet]

One Proud Bavarian getting mentioned :)

[@ilaughatfunnyshit3482]

Damn i wana play this game. No time. So ill just listen to you. Thanks for the entertainment

[@TheMrTDrain]

Make more of these please

[@julianfischer6404]

Top 5 Positions to go to for Migratory Tribes. I really like playing them to make the play even harder. I once played a germanic tribe that settled in modern day Morocco and nibbled on Carthage and Co. Was my favourite Playthrough.

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

Was that the Vandals achievement?

[@julianfischer6404]

​@@RealmBuilderGuy I feel stupid now. I could have reached an achievement with the playthrough. No, I played with a Non-vandal Nation. But I like that location and will start one again.

[@LTN000]

my most recent play was forming albion starting as an OPM in ireland. It was quite fun, even tho i suck at the game

[@SnorriHT]

Thank you for this content. Could you please consider doing a Let's play of the Bosporan Kingdom?

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

Thanks for watching! They’re certainly a possibility after Sparta.

[@TheBusbyBabes]

another fun start imo is to play as the cheruskians but more out of rp/historic reasons, less because they are so strong xD

[@FinDan07]

Lol i was planning to play arverni next and theyre first on the list

[@markjerue9734]

Best cultures video? IE which cultures have the best levies? Also, how to consider the value of various levy types, IE what makes war elephants better or worse than light infantry, etc.

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

I like those ideas!

[@christopherrivera9827]

Alright boys we hitting 300 likes lets goooo

[@olehtrukhan2918]

I played as bosporans, easily took everything from Tyras to Caspian sea, but then the Rome came from the west and it was game over.

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

Rome is still very OP

[@cristianrodrigo8418]

Comment for the algorithm

[@Iamawandererthatiam]

This video is really good at 1.5x speed.

[@Zombie1Boy]

Bactria.. *Rome Total Realism flashbacks*

[@luismanuelespinosacastillo808]

Nice video, also, have u ever done any announcing?

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

Thanks! I have not

[@GuilhermePreissler]

Who would you pick to form Albion? I'm currently going with Icenia

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

Brigantia is the largest, but I find Icenia the most interesting personally

[@cianmurtagh468]

I challenge you to play a single city-state game and try get 1k pops :P. I really enjoy those kinda let's plays. Just a suggestion no pressure but would think it would be cool. Maybe even somewhere really hard like try colonise the Isle of Man with one pop, release as client then switch to them and try build up. I'm afk so can only play vicariously through youtubers such as yourself :p

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

Definitely something worth looking at. Thanks for the suggestion!

[@lessavini]

What's your soundtrack? It's so cool, I wish I could use it in the game.

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

It’s music from the Imperator soundtrack

[@JafuetTheSame]

Didnt pick the Picts?

[@BlueViper8907]

I wish there was an achievement for forming Babylon. The 'achievement' is just forming it itself xD

[@stuartnicklin650]

Ver sen get orix

[@KVirello]

I've never heard anyone say Vercingetorix like that lmao

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

It’s the German pronunciation

[@thisishuhwow]

is this game not garbo anymore?

[@RealmBuilderGuy]

It definitely is not

[@ADrunkBassist]

I do not condone this guy repeatedly pronouncing Vercingetorix like that.