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.
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.
@@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.
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.
@@Sigismund-von-Luxembourg 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
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.
@@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
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 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
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
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
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
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!
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.
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!
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
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.
Fun fact laith, the Roman Republic didn't really have the policy of devine and conquer, they tried to make tributary most of Italy, that is the main reason Carthage greatest general, mr Hannibal chose not to burn Rome even if he could he wanted Rome's allies to see Rome is weak and rise up
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.
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
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)
its hilarious because the soundtrack for Imperator is amazing but its also wasn't on Spotify until this April because because PDX wanted to bury this game completely and have people forget about it - I checked probably like once a month for the past 3 years waiting for them to put it up
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.
Have never fully understood the food mechanic. I do know that levies being raised, or armies sitting in a province impacts food, seasons play a role and that importing food helps, but I do not know all the math behind it and why sometimes provinces seem to randomly start starving.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!!!!
Didn’t get why laith’s campaign got massive neighbors. Every time I play imperator is literally just a buffet until I start coming to blows with the heirs of Alexander.
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.
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.
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".
it's an absolute terrible crime that pdx abandoned imperator right when they actually fixed the game enough to have a nice solid base for future content and flavor
commenting so the algorithm pushes the video and this game gets more social media recognition. My favorite historical period is this exactly and I think this game has immense potential. I am desperate for it to be revived!
Imperator is Paradox at it's finest: An absolute clusterf*ck of a poorly hidden excel sheet only somewhat enjoyable after 4 years and with a dozen mods.
ROMA INVICTA! Also, neat aside, if you give Rome to the Etruscans, they can give it to you back in exchange for reinstating the Roman Monarchy and becoming a feudatory. Can also just as easily break off and reconquer them afterwards. Early Empire without the Dictatorship!
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
Imperator: Rome is a real gem of a game. Has tons of potential, just not enough enthusiasm from the producers behind the devs, and the fans being wary of another substandard game launch.
Ackshually, in ancient times they very much had to justify slavery. It's just that for contextual reasons it was harder for people who opposed slavery to do anything.
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
This man is a legend for keeping Imperator alive
Him and swimmy
@@makiskanyt9269 And Lord Lambert.
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.
@@ItIsYouAreNotYour many things, it's the argument of the vic3 combat but for imperitor stuff like colonization
@@ItIsYouAreNotYour The original launch was shit, the update made it great but it was too late
Laith treating this game like that ex that he just can't let go of
This is a violation
And she's not even hot or worth it.
He went to a DnD session?
@@antorseax9492DnD players get girlfriends?
@@DylanKnighting DnD players girlfriend are often the DM
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.
How can he keep the game alive if he uses a mod? Or is it without too boring?
@@TheLibermania Devs stopped supporting it, so there is a mod team supporting it instead by providing content for nations etc
@@mattgames7543 Yeah, but that isn't the game anymore then.
@@TheLibermania that’s a very weird way of looking at it but each to their own
@@TheLibermania then dont complain and dont getthe game god you people have no brain
Laith always meets the girl, but the girl has yet to stay 😢
I wouldn't worry about that. One girl will stay eventually and that one will not be toxic and manipulative.
You know, if he'd go on his dates wearing his Red Hawk cosplay, he'd have women all over him. No doubt.
Most women aren't worth your time today
@@deusvult6920 just not true but okay
@@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.
Laith thanks for doing this, Imperator deserves way more
I'm holding out hope that Paradox gives it life once again.
It’s one or two updates from being the best paradox game.
@@alexh3298 so true
@@alexh3298 W
This game has so much potential, it's a shame they've abandoned it!
THE WILL COME BACK OR I REBEL 😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
Damn leviathan
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.
@@Sigismund-von-Luxembourg 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
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.
I wonder if there are any devs from this game wondering, "Where was this guy a few years ago?!"
😢
Well Invictus modders were responsible for salvaging the game imo
@@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
Bro is definitely not meeting a girl
180 likes and no reply? Let me fix that
@@fildafernandes4366 This clown even liked his own comment 🤮
If she isn't a Roman and not living in 200BC, then I guess not.
Meeting a girl (boy)
My guy got that seduction scheme at max, don’t question him bro
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
Laith doing God's work keeping providing copium for a revival of this game!
*Jove's work
@@ArakkoaChronicles Deus', I hope we can all agree on that! 😉
Laith fresh off of saying that he'll never form Rome on the channel again, immediately records a video about forming Rome.
This time he isn't forming Rome *again*, he's doing it for the first time this timeline. Totally different
technically it already existed
I'd like to see this campaign continued
honestly still wish they'd update this game, it had so much promise
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.
It was updated not too long ago.
@@chicken4976 yeah and that maintenance patch says This is not a revival, do not expect new content
@@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
Apparently Laith's bachelor's degree was in Archeology, because he loves to dig up this dead game for videos x)
Thank you for continuing to play this game, seeing someone of your channel status playing this game inspires me to keep modding the game!
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
love seeing this !!! makes me so excited, thank you so much for covering it again, hope to see more !
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
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
@@seanm241 not adding timelines probably talking about making the end date longer maybe to ad
@@seanm241 Maybe but Impertor is basically over when it starts.
@@sebe2255 yup, I had the same reaction when I gave played march of the eagles a try: "that's it?"
I think they can still salvage the game if interest keeps up, but maybe it's the copium i've been inhaling.
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!
3:21 I love you for this criticism
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.
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!
I’d like to see a pt2. Getting historical Roman borders.
Last time I was this early Ireland was called Hibernia
anyway me needs sleep
No sleep is for the weak
You shouldn’t let it die. You are my hero
The Invictus mod is singlehandedly keeping the game alive, this is SO much fun. So many nations updated and formed into something great.
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
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.
Fun fact laith, the Roman Republic didn't really have the policy of devine and conquer, they tried to make tributary most of Italy, that is the main reason Carthage greatest general, mr Hannibal chose not to burn Rome even if he could he wanted Rome's allies to see Rome is weak and rise up
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.
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. 😊
Based Laith reviving dead games
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
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)
20:31 It's cheesy, but you can build one boat (that will stay in the port), it creates an amiral job to please the grumpy noble families👍
Laith single handedly keeping Imperator: Rome alive...
its hilarious because the soundtrack for Imperator is amazing but its also wasn't on Spotify until this April because because PDX wanted to bury this game completely and have people forget about it - I checked probably like once a month for the past 3 years waiting for them to put it up
Laith losing ships and rebuilding each time...very historical route.
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.
Have never fully understood the food mechanic. I do know that levies being raised, or armies sitting in a province impacts food, seasons play a role and that importing food helps, but I do not know all the math behind it and why sometimes provinces seem to randomly start starving.
The Imperator: Invictus modpack is the reason people still touch this
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.
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
The last DLC we got and the last update man it was 10/10 and then they just killed it
Man, i miss the old days of conquering using only light cavs due to how cheap yet powerful they are
I'd never expect a Tunisian to play as his greatest enemy who destroyed his local ancient civilisation
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.
"Please, we're starving!"
"Damn dude, that's crazy."
Hope this game gets revived. I have 500 hours in it and ive enjoyed every minute of it.
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.
I am so happy to see more Imperator content! you are doing the work of the roman gods!
Honestly, imperator with the Sol Invictus mod is probably one of the best paradox grand strat games. Seriously super fun and engaging.
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.
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.
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!!!!
Thanks for the daily uploads they are amazing to chill out and watch after a long day
I just want this game to continue :(
I have no idea how anyone could think that this interface is cool and clear. I love the look of the map and water, but the rest... bruuh.
I personally liked the game its a shame they don't update it anymore. It was short lived :(
Cool that this game is kinda coming back to youtube
Laith, you can split your navy to give people admiralty, that's a position they're happy with
Didn’t get why laith’s campaign got massive neighbors. Every time I play imperator is literally just a buffet until I start coming to blows with the heirs of Alexander.
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.
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.
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
22:42 no i was wrong- THIS is the most successful roman naval battle in history
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".
Game is on sale for 75%, Pack is only around $17 USD,. Finally buying the game because of you Laith
The random freakouts when you run out of grain shipments seems VERY on-brand for a Roman aristocrat.
‘I thought I had a big navy’ rome never really had a navy till after their wars with Cathrage.
it's an absolute terrible crime that pdx abandoned imperator right when they actually fixed the game enough to have a nice solid base for future content and flavor
commenting so the algorithm pushes the video and this game gets more social media recognition. My favorite historical period is this exactly and I
think this game has immense potential. I am desperate for it to be revived!
Imperator is Paradox at it's finest: An absolute clusterf*ck of a poorly hidden excel sheet only somewhat enjoyable after 4 years and with a dozen mods.
ROMA INVICTA!
Also, neat aside, if you give Rome to the Etruscans, they can give it to you back in exchange for reinstating the Roman Monarchy and becoming a feudatory. Can also just as easily break off and reconquer them afterwards. Early Empire without the Dictatorship!
okay you convinced me to give it a try - bought the game on the sale ^^
Please more Imperator vídeos, this is such a underrated game.
Thank you for also being someone who enjoys this game. It has its flaws, but it's still fun.
i guess you could say, he became a true Italian hero. 🥹
As one of the existing 10 imperator players, thank you for making videos about this game Laith.
We need to see Laith in a toga during one playthrough... or on a date
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
Man even paradox couldn’t do what laity did
Congrats, you got me to play the game for 15 hours!
Best composition I’ve found for legions is 20 Heavy Inf, 10 Heavy Cav, 4 engineers and 4 supply
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
A lot of old tutorials still are helpful for some.of the basics
god what a fucking gigachad, plays Imperator rome right before going out and meeting with the ladies, what a guy
Just played an Egypt campaign, this game has honestly improved so much
try kush out for an even better egypt
The revival of this game is in the hands of the community - if the player numbers go up, then pdx might come back
Probably a good thing to mention that you're playing with the Invictus mod, so people will know to get it if they want the best I:R experience
Imperator: Rome is a real gem of a game. Has tons of potential, just not enough enthusiasm from the producers behind the devs, and the fans being wary of another substandard game launch.
Ackshually, in ancient times they very much had to justify slavery. It's just that for contextual reasons it was harder for people who opposed slavery to do anything.
On the strength of this video I re-downloaded it and the changes have made it much much more playable. Cheers for the recommendation mate.
great to see more imperator content, would love to see persia campaign continued tho!
Laith the fact that you dont play using the terrain map mode hurts my soul, such a beautiful map
Laith has to play Imperator Rome in order to increase his rizz
I feel like we need to turn "Imperator 2 when?" into a meme, if Vicky managed to do it, Imperator has a chance.
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
That first naval engagement with Epirus was such a roman thing lol. Rome have bigger ship why greek no sink?
Make more imperator Rome videos, there really fun to watch
I love this game and the classic stage. It's a shame that Paradox abandons it and doesn't give it a long life like other games in its catalog.