Imperator Rome Top 10 Tips

[@TaeSunWoo]

As a girl who started with CK 3 to scratch that random “Eastern to fully restored Roman Empire” that never went away, other Paradox titles frankly intimidated me when I checked them out but after a few dozen hours in Imperator it seems me at least to be a gentle curve up in difficulty and but I love it more because it’s set in the Classical Era

[@zerosuitsamus2340]

A korean girl intrest in map warefare? Ultra rare kimchi

[@halikarnak1862]

Its acktually the hellenistic age

[@TaeSunWoo]

@@halikarnak1862 Classical (Antiquity) Era is from 8th century BC to 5th century AD.

[@halikarnak1862]

@@TaeSunWoo no, the classical period was more like 500-323 BCE, with the Hellenistic age beginning after the death of alexander and the formation of the diadochoi

[@Demosthenes84]

@@TaeSunWoo my longest game in ck3 was restoring the roman empire too. I also reinstated hellenism as the state religion so Jupiter was guiding the newly reborn roman empire again. It was fun.

[@jamesmayes4351]

Just started playing again. Man they really improved the game.

[@KonglomeratYT]

When's the last time you played?

[@jamesmayes4351]

@KonglomeratYT I think I played one game after the DLC came out when ever that was.

[@gregc6535]

I highly recommend adding the tera indomita mod. It includes the invictus mod along with a few others.

[@Njordin2010]

​​@@jamesmayes4351you should use invictus. They added some things from invictus to the base game alread and made mods achievement compatible.

[@jamesmayes4351]

@@gregc6535 just tried that out, wow thats impressive.

[@bobkatfan2013]

I’ve got 500 hours in Imperator, but haven’t played in forever, this was so helpful, thanks!

[@KonglomeratYT]

Glad it helped!

[@ramirodiazsoto1493]

Build wonders when your eco allows it. The bonusses at level 2 are huge!!!

[@SlagNasty]

Love this game thanks for the video Imperator!

[@KonglomeratYT]

Glad that you found it helpful! I have a whole playlist with more if you need; in the description.

[@nobedience]

My Suebian Empire thanks you. I just contained rome in italy and made the alpes a fortess bottleneck. But i had to mod the endgame date to last 500 years longer lol.

[@KonglomeratYT]

The endgame date let's you go past it without a mod. Did you encounter some sort of hard cap?

[@nobedience]

@@KonglomeratYT Not yet, and i dont think there is one. But as a small tribe to become great power empire i cannot do this in 300 years. Now i am in the year 1120 or so. Like 400 or more years later than vanilla. And now there are 5 great powers, Egypt, Rome, India, Persia and my Suebian Empire with 2000 cohorts. About 90% of map is part of a great power, really endgame.

[@soldiersarevok]

Used to love Europa Universalis: Rome back in the day. This feels just like it (post-Anniversary update anyway) but was a bit rough on initial release. Thanks for the tips, definitely enjoying getting back the old EU Rome feeling of world domination!

[@KonglomeratYT]

Glad the tips were helpful =)

[@nobedience]

Something you forgot about trade, even though its a minor one eventually too marginal to talk about but there is a diplomatic aspect of trade with a specific subject. There is a opinion bonus. So if you need some extra diplomatic opinion with some other nation, you should have at least 1 trade route agreement with them.

[@KonglomeratYT]

Good tip! Definitely worth a read for anyone scrolling by.

[@jjamo1225]

It dosent seem to work once allied

[@sergeykonoplev7614]

There are usefull to check the colour on the corner of person's portraits in order to assign enough guys from one family to give them grateful status. Also I like to keep all office sits for 8 persons from grateful family.

[@nobedience]

Yea, the micro. I have now won a 3 years war against rome, and it was disgusting to pause all 1-3 days but otherwise i would have had no chance.

[@Njordin2010]

Just at right moment. Subbed!

[@gurufabbes1]

I started playing this 3 days ago and couldn't put it down. Your video series was my refresher before starting it. This video really provides additional help. However: I am still left in the dark in terms of what legions are good for. They're expensive, they're smaller than levies, they reduce your levies.... So in what particular situation is it beneficial? What should be a good rule of thumb in terms of income before you consider moving over? The video correctly cautions the player about moving into it too quickly. So far in my game as Rome, I made that mistake, then moved back. I've been able to win every war with levies. So why do I even need legions?

[@KonglomeratYT]

I suggest watching my military guide (it's in the playlist in the description). I go over it in more depth. These tips are a shorter version of what I say in a lot of my guides. In short though, you don't NEED legions. Legions are just a way to take manpower of levies, and the money of mercenaries, and put it into something that you can modify/customize/train/pre-position. It's completely valid to not use them, but I talk more about the advantages of everything in that military guide.

[@gurufabbes1]

@@KonglomeratYT I'll give it a watch again. Thanks a lot for your videos.

[@KonglomeratYT]

Glad that you find them helpful.

[@jjamo1225]

Later research gives bonuses to heavy infantry. Can train legions for experience which reduces losses. Good for road building. Legions are still a late game luxury though.

[@gregtaylor9806]

-For large powers it lets you fight small/medium size wars without taking war exhaustion and levy maluses. Same with barbarians Troop become elite through legion honors You determine the exact unit composition You can set any character as a commander. Make use of those random 12+ mil score character that enter the kingdom but are unsuitable as governors. IMO not worth it until you are at a particular place in the geopolitical balance of your region.

[@jakeb9534]

Love the tips. I am an Imperator Rome fan. Can you make a video on playing tall. Perhaps in Crete or something to that nature.

[@KonglomeratYT]

Glad you found them helpful. There's probably tidbits for that in my other guides, but I feel like I can definitely make a dedicated guide for that. Just to confirm that I know what "playing tall" means: it means to build up while expanding as little as possible, right?

[@jakeb9534]

@@KonglomeratYT correct. Making a mighty City State (if you're Greek, such as Massilia, Rhodes, Crete). I mostly play Greek factions. Also, I would like to you do a playthrough as Thebes. I have tried it but failed.

[@KonglomeratYT]

Yesterday I recorded a guide on how to do this. So it will get posted once I can get it edited and the schedule catches up. Plan on making more guides soon.

[@jakeb9534]

@@KonglomeratYT great, looking forward to it.

[@rafaelrodrigues7971]

Could you release a guide on senate manipulation, and intrigue? I'm playing Massilia and have been stumbling on these mechanics while I fight for my life. Stuff like befriending to change party allegiance, spending personal wealth, and been playing around with the idea of corrupting enemies so I can take them down in a trial.

[@KonglomeratYT]

I do have a government guide where I touch upon this while speaking of Republics. Does that cover it enough, or are you looking for a different sort of depth?

[@kajetanpinkowski5432]

Have you been thinking about specific countries guides? For exemple i would very lovly see guide about selucid empire and how to convert population, prevent endless revolts in provinces and best way of using theirs mission?

[@KonglomeratYT]

I have not considered it before, but it is a good idea.

[@Njordin2010]

could you do an invictus guide? now that achievements with mods are possible, this would be a no-brainer!

[@KonglomeratYT]

Potentially. But currently I know nothing about invictus. So that would require some playtime.

[@zerosuitsamus2340]

Although i play almost 1k hours on this game due to mods like Invictus and its sync submods. I always try find any decent and up to date guides. Like i dont know that you can enable automated trade when you lose trade goods. Still its better than nothing

[@nobedience]

Legion units ARE BETTER per se. IF you can afford. Because of the legion starting distinction bonus and trained experience and the potential to even get more and more distinctions. Not really much on fresh legion but you cannot ignore it and at the end you can have legions with multiple distinctions. And the stats you need to have a good levy governeur is x2 compared to legion type government. Because there you only need martial for legions and only finesse for governeurs. A levy governeur would want to have both stats high which is just not easy to get. But there is a workaround when you just switch to high martial characters as governeurs just before war.

[@KonglomeratYT]

They can be better under certain circumstances on a 1 to 1 fight, but legions will always be quality > quantity. I've seen newer players rush to get a legion, but now not have enough troops to fight wars, or enough money for mercenaries. This is why I recommended against treating them as being important for newer players. They limit your options due to their price, and require experience to be worth the cost.

[@nobedience]

@@KonglomeratYT Right. There is kinda linear progression. From full levy to mid game with one legion mixed with levy and late if you have 100k gold and 300+ per month, you can go full legion and training.

[@Njordin2010]

i mean thats what he said in the video. legions have room for lots of improvement but are basically levies when they start.

[@Demosthenes84]

Im just starting to play this game. I really can't wait to understand it enough to play. I have many hours in ck3 and stellaris. But man I feel like I need a degree to learn this game. And the tutorial sucks. And tips on the best way to learn?

[@KonglomeratYT]

Once you do learn it, you will find that CK3 and Stellaris are far more complicated. This game casts a far wider net than those do, but it does not go nearly as deep as a result. The tutorial does indeed suck. The way I learned was a trial by fire combined with my experience with 10+ years of Paradox games; including all the ones that this is trying to mimic. However, I would, naturally, recommend my playlist of guides alongside a casual playthrough, or two to learn the game without getting too invested in the outcome. Teaching in place of the bad tutorial was always the intention of my videos =P

[@Demosthenes84]

@@KonglomeratYT ya thanks the tutorials have been very helpful. And I just jumped into a couple games. I have about 50 hours now and a much better understanding. It's been so fun. Fighting my own punic wars and trying to eliminate the etruscans has been great! Thanks for the reply man

[@SlagNasty]

Trading with your subjects that pay you tribute increases your tribute as they make more money :D

[@KonglomeratYT]

That's a good tip. Make sure to keep your subjects trading.

[@SlagNasty]

@KonglomeratYT PDX has the best games for overlords imo. Another one that took me a while to figure out: keep One Province Minors around even if not as tributaries so they buy your stuff.

[@Impossibleshadow]

Why would you ever build farms? The ai doesn’t buy food as a trade good. And you don’t really need it as a resource. And provinces outside the capital should have plenty anyway.

[@KonglomeratYT]

The AI does buy food resources. Both your province AI and foreign AI. You do need food as a resource to make high-population locations viable (in vanilla, there is even an exploit on how to do this with cities on certain resource types). Since food resources are commonly traded it is also a good source of income. However, the non-resource version of food is the most important reason why. As populations grow and land is developed, you will need food, or trade routes to support it. If you automate trade then the the automatic food imports should handle this mostly, but setting up food production is always smart to come before this. It is especially handy when you are stationing legions in provinces, as the presence of soldiers (even temporarily) can ravage the accumulated food supply in a province.

[@yahoosucks234]

How are you coming in here calling it "impure-iter" lol. It's "im-per-ah-tor"

[@KonglomeratYT]

How are you coming in here pretending you don't know accents exist lol