Imperator Rome Nations Guide - What Nation Should I Play As?

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2 ай бұрын

A beginner's guide to Imperator Rome's Nations, and which one to choose based on interest, flavor, government, and experience level.
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@thundernorse1098 2 ай бұрын

Great video, I also recommend Imperator: Invictus mod on steam workshop. It greatly improves the game.

@KonglomeratYT 2 ай бұрын

Thanks! Glad you liked it! I've seen that mod mentioned once before in my videos. I haven't tried it yet, but I did do some livestreams of the bronze age; which I believe is made by the same guy. Perhaps one day we will try Invictus too when the base game bores me. But so far I've been playing since launch and have loved every step of what the base game has to offer =)

@thundernorse1098 2 ай бұрын

@@KonglomeratYT I’d recommend it strongly, its like the game never was abandoned with that mod.

@KonglomeratYT 2 ай бұрын

I do not usually encounter any bugs, and I don't actually even own any of the DLCs. So I have not personally experienced any feeling of "abandonment" (I also don't buy any paradox DLC, so 2.0's "static" nature is how most paradox games feel to me.). Imperator feels like a well-released game that *cannot* be updated, like they all were 20+ years ago when I was a kid. The jump from 1.0 to 2.0 was a huge task to relearn the UI and the mechanics for me, and I did prefer a lot of 1.0's UI and mechanics. Especially surrounding research. That's why I'd probably wait until the base game bores me. I hear it features tons of changes, which is a positive for some, but can be a negative if you already enjoy things the way that they are =P

@thundernorse1098 2 ай бұрын

@@KonglomeratYT I see. I would also recommend that Beta 2.0.4 on steam which fixes the bug «prisoner abroad» which destroyed my campaign. It’s the same game but bug fixing. With that I myself haven’t seen any bugs since the update.

@KonglomeratYT 2 ай бұрын

What is the prisoner abroad bug? Not sure if we have encountered that.

@SlagNasty Ай бұрын

Good stuff. I too recommend Invictus. Adds lots of missions.

@kriegguardsman2604 Ай бұрын

sparta is always a fun nation to play. you usually gety left alone until you start conquering northward but with how strong their armies are even if you're weaker some mercs and a powerful ally enough to get you a victory

@ryangrant9885 2 ай бұрын

I quite like playing as Carthage, doing a type of alternate timeline and conquer Latium quite early on and expand across north Africa and Spain.

@centseighty5100 2 ай бұрын

great video to promote the game!❤

@KonglomeratYT 2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@SenorJuancii 2 ай бұрын

Another banger video

@KonglomeratYT 2 ай бұрын

Thanks! Glad you liked it!

@plaguebenji 2 ай бұрын

New player. I picked up the game a month ago and I have been trying things off and on. Could you maybe explain the steps needed to colonize/migrate vacant land. The mechanics seem clunky to me and don't work all the time. I have been playing Saloia and can achieve some capture of the empty land and other times it just says no. I brief video would be helpful. Thanks!

@KonglomeratYT 2 ай бұрын

As it would happen, I have actually recorded a guide on colonization that releases publicly in 1 week! And it does go over the process step-by-step. Hope it helps you =) Here is the page in advance if you'd like to bookmark it for alter. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y6etdYR_otmEodU

@piellamp 2 ай бұрын

colonizing is easy, you just need a certain amount of your type of pop next to the uncolonized land and also a majority of your religion

@KonglomeratYT 2 ай бұрын

It's a bit more complicated than that. For example, it doesn't need to be "next to", and there are a lot more requirements than a majority of religion. There's culture requirements, promotion requirements, and exact distances and timings that must be accounted for. It will be shown step-by-step in next week's guide.

@_Lumiere_ 2 ай бұрын

Ngl, I started with Egypt and it was really easy to learn after doing the roman tutorial. Didnt have to manage a republic or choose where to expand, just follow the macedonian pharaoh missions and get rich then pick a nice big target (who are all stuck next to impassable terrain).

@KonglomeratYT 2 ай бұрын

Macedonian pharaoh missions? I am unaware of those. A dlc or mod? This guide was based entirely on base game offerings.

@_Lumiere_ 2 ай бұрын

@@KonglomeratYT Ah, it might be from the DLCs. It's basically just a mission tree for improving the nation and it gives you a pretty big discount on deification at the end of it. It's been pretty smooth sailing, even for a relative noob like me. Basically just focus on internal development until the antigonids either give you the east coast or go to war against you (you can easily just weather it until they give up and you get the east coast anyway). Then you just follow the missions and integrate cyrenaica. After that mission tree, I went for greater empire, and conquered Kush and Aksum to the south. Pretty straightforward and makes you super strong.

@KonglomeratYT 2 ай бұрын

Probably the hellenic flavor dlc. It covers Alexander's former empire with special missions, and a couple of others.

@mr.crowgamer6250 2 ай бұрын

Playing icenia now formed a nation and monarch

@rempha 2 ай бұрын

How about playing Getia? What is the challenge?

@KonglomeratYT 2 ай бұрын

Roughly the same as Scythia, but now you are a little closer to rome and the hellenics. The hellenics are your biggest threat, but if you go east around the north end of the black sea then things are easier. The hellenics are distracted fighting each other in the beginning. It wouldn't be the easiest playthrough, but it's a functional challenge.

@HowDareYouSpeakToMe 2 ай бұрын

I always played as Boii because I liked their name. YEAAAAAAH BOII

@jackslater4695 2 ай бұрын

I like to play as Epirus and Syracuse

@scorpioneldar 2 ай бұрын

I strongly recommend Kalingana and Pandya in India. Kalingana has the best ablity to culture convert others in the game and can quickly make loyal warriors out of other populations all game long. meanwhile Pandaya has the single largest culture in the game by pops giving you lots of good same culture land to conquor a strong military and is pretty far from Mayurua. letting you build a powerful southern india force before challenging them.

@KonglomeratYT 2 ай бұрын

Sounds like good choices for (hopefully) surpassing Maurya XD It's probably at least as viable as some barbarians around Illyria.

@TheQuickchair Ай бұрын

you forgot Epirus D: my boy Pyrrhus... what have they done to you

@KonglomeratYT Ай бұрын

I think I mention them for a fraction of a second while covering nations that are likely to get new players into trouble. Eprius especially is an early target of Rome that newbies may not know how to deal with.

@NorthernXY 2 ай бұрын

Just giving you a hard time, really enjoy listening to this while work on other stuff. However, when you said that the times of Athens and Sparta were like 400-700 years ago, I immediately came to an abrupt pause. I look at the screen the video was playing on (I have multiple), paused it, and looked at the video. It says 304 BC. The days of classic Greece was less than decades ago.

@KonglomeratYT 2 ай бұрын

10 years ago was the empire of Alexander. I am referring to the general education Americans receive on Athens and Sparta as city states warring over greece. There is actuality a mod we plan to try that takes place during that time period; several hundred years before this date. Much further back than Alexander's lifetime.

@nowaki23 Ай бұрын

The peloponnesian era ended in about 401 BC, so about 100 years have passed since the classical era

@hyperthulean8649 Ай бұрын

i like to play as Anglia and migrate to Italy and pick up their military traditions before going to Britain and doing the Anglo-Saxon invasion hundreds of years before it happened. very fun. cheesy though with the migratory armies. migratory are the funniest but also so fucking boring sometimes.

@KonglomeratYT Ай бұрын

Reminds me of Nordic playstyles in CK3. Just go around sniping titles with Varangian adventures.

@hyperthulean8649 Ай бұрын

@@KonglomeratYT someday I will take the entire of Germania to India and convert their entire culture through the migration button

@sanvega5621 2 ай бұрын

You should play any nation in Invictus. Vanilla still not so great D:

@KonglomeratYT 2 ай бұрын

I love vanilla. I've played it since release. Never touched invictus. I would not be quick to recommend players ignore what they paid for and jump to a user modification. Mods are meant to improve upon a game. Not replace it.

@johnnicholas1657 2 ай бұрын

It mainly adds a lot new mission trees and great buildings etc and events. It doesn't remove anything from the base game, just builds on it. It's basically a free massive dlc@@KonglomeratYT

@KonglomeratYT 2 ай бұрын

I have heard it changes the game dramatically. There are forum posts near daily about users getting confused over overhauls to core game systems that that mod performs. As it stands I am very happy with the game I've played since launch. It is my favorite paradox game since Vicky 2. Until it finds a way to make me unhappy, then an overhaul of mechanics and changing of core gameplay loop remains unattractive to me. Rather, mods that allow me to experience a variety of the same are what catch my eye. Such as classical rework.

@Njordin2010 Ай бұрын

@@KonglomeratYT well even paradox implements stuff from invictus in the latest patch. invictus improves on every mechanic already available + adds textbooks full of history/lore to the game, more mission trees for nations that had none (missing content) and the food mechanic which gives the game a complete feel. if somebody loves vanilla then there is basically zero reason to not upgrade to "3.0 ir:rome" but as always there are vanilla purists out there that just want to play vanilla for the sake of it and not for any logical reason, which is fine. Thats why paradox in general implements things from their biggest mods sooner or later. btw. your videos are the best out there on Imperator Rome.

@KonglomeratYT Ай бұрын

I am glad you like the videos. I've tried my best to make them helpful to incoming players buying the game, but also comprehensive enough that longer-term players can hopefully learn something too. I would like to say, though, that I am not a "vanilla purist" without "any logical reason". I have already streamed a modded playthrough using a mod by the invictus developer. Bronze Age. I know that features and graphics are the top reasons most modders mod, but I usually only mod for total conversions, or bugfixes. When all my friends were downloading Skyrim graphics overhauls and gameplay changing mods, I was downloading post-game questlines simulating Morrowind invading Skyrim. I already have a playlist of mods that interest me. It just so happens that Invictus never caught my eye; just like those core Skyrim overhauls didn't.

@eduardoborges506 14 күн бұрын

Playing in iberia as my first start was tough but it was a crash course. My first failed playthrough started in lusitania, conquered the region and a bit more, took too long, carthage came and killed me. Second playtrhough i rushed, got quite big before carthage started going for iberia, managed to ally rome as a major power, used them to attack carthage a couple times, which killed them. But now i have no idea how i will deal with rome

@KonglomeratYT 14 күн бұрын

Yeah those barbarians in the west side of the map are good for learning, but they get completely roadblocked by the greater powers of the Mediterranean lol.