After 6 Years, Imperator Rome GOT THE LOVE IT NEEDS ! 

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I'm very confused on why developers on struggling games don't reach out to the modding community more. The modders make such amazing additions just because they love the game, and I feel they don't get the formal recognition they deserve

I went German migratory tribe but stayed in Germany. Then I spent centuries kidnapping people from allover the Med and bringing them back to Germania. My Germania now has a higher pop density than modern day Hong Kong and there's not a single city left standing around the Med. No other paradox title offers this kind of gameplay. Such a shame they didn't stick to it.

Imperator Rome has so much potential. I was sad when they annonce they will never uptated the game. It deserve another chance !

A couple of tips for those who've tried the game and were frustrated by the mechanics. Unlike EU4 you want to have a fort in every province and not just on the borders. Forts reduce unrest which increases province loyalty. So at least 1 fort per province and 2-3 for newly conquered states. That along with theaters and temples in cities when you can research them. Second trick is if a province has declining loyalty of less than 34, you can switch the governor out and back and they will usually change to harsh treatment without wasting PP. At a small cost of loyalty, hopefully you didn't assign the governors job to someone with low loyalty beforehand. Third is to have only 1 city per province, obviously your province capital. It's more efficient to have have 1 city with 90 pops than 3 with 30. Pick a place with the best habitability even if its not the best resource available. Exceptions being a low population province (below 30-40) where it may be ok to have a 2nd city strictly as a granary silo. More available food increases pop growth, doesn't work as well in high pop states. Also your capital region where 4-6 cities may be ok for the extra goods trade bonuses. Next and more challenging; Tyranny is your friend. Not a good one but it's the best source for AE reduction, plus adds to slave output, more tax money. So sack cities that you don't need. Just be weary of loyalty, maybe research loyalty techs. After that research levies starting XP, levies can give tons of Mil XP when disbanding. There are guides on the paradox page that explain it clearly but basically you can finish an entire military tree within a few years by raising and disbanding levies every 6 months. In regards to legions, don't bother with legions until you're making $100+ income. You won't be able to field enough of them until you're making bank. Now, once you do get legions there is an exploit where you can get them almost unlimited morale. It just depends on how many foreign holy sites you have access to, each one is supposed to give a 10% permanent morale boost to a legion when sacked. Its supposed to only do it once. But due to the game being perfectly balanced. What you can do is split up which ever legion you want to do this to and send one to however number of temples you want. Then pause the game and go through all the units and destroy each holy site with the legion. You'll see the event pop up repeatedly. I've gotten a 400% morale boost in Ironman. Usually I restrict myself to a meager 50-100% boost as I try to spread it around all my legions. And morale actually increases your damage output. My legions can easily fight 4-5 times their number, such victories give more rewards and bonuses. Eventually you'll have a single 10k legion smashing 100k troops. Lastly horse archers are OP, just like in real life. If you have access to the Persian military branch use them instead of heavy infantry and cavalry. Don't give them logistics or engineers. Have dedicated siege legions with infantry set aside. Because they can move at speed for 4, double the speed of infantry at 2. And they have 5 maneuver in battle. Basically they can hit everyone around them. Combined with the Persian bonuses and the "bull" battle tactic they're like roving helicopter gunships. The only thing that can stop them is a dedicated army of light cav but the AI never makes such an army. And they're good as far as army weight, not having the extra weight modifier that heavy cav has. Early steppe horde goes BRRT!

I agree that more people should play this game. "Dead game"? What does that even mean? It's polished and feature-complete with awesome mods and community, Invictus doesn't even disable achievements. It's not a Live Service game (which most people hate but keep playing and paying for some reason), how can it be dead? It's only dead if you don't play it. No official future patches and DLCs? Nobody's entitled to DLCs, especially when people keep absolutely SHITTING on PDX DLCs for some petty reason. So just play it and shut up! It's a good game!

I got 50 hours in 2 weeks in a rome campaign. The game is addicting in a way i cant really describe

imperator rome is the most unfair and underrated game of all

PDX needs to hire the invictus team for I:R2

I never stopped playing Imperator Rome, since its release. I love it, Paradox should love it a little bit more as well.

I never understood why Victoria 3 got the manual trade system of Imperator Rome. Trade in both games is so annoying. Checking and accepting trade routes every minute is worse than a clicker game. Victoria 2 did it better.

I would love to see a historical vid on Bactria!! I don't know much about this older history and would love to learn more :)

So glad to see ludi make an imperator rome video. Had this game in my library for half a year, but this finally gave me the energy to start my own campaign Cheers man!

I suggest getting the Timeline Extension mod and the Crisis of the Third Century edition. They are Invictus compatible and probably shatter your empire so you can have an interesting mega camapign.

would love to see a livestream with this game

A Bactria video would be amazing, dude. I’ll take any Ludi history lesson I can get my hands on.

Just a little tip: in this game early mercs are WAY more important than in eu4.

Thanks for making this vid, love seeing Invictus vids - fingers crossed we get that trade DLC!

Baktria is my fav faction in Rome 2 total war. Greek phalanxes with elephants!? Sign me in!

Great video as always! Love it!!

it's very funny seeing ludi play the game and not being sure which features are modded and which are from 2.0, for example the scaling skills in offices is from 2.0 xd

Long story short: Thracians were a huge group of people which were part not only the Dacians/Getians(different tribes, same people); Dacia got to be called Dacia after the tribe that unified the people, the Dacians. Illyrians and the pasta eating plebs on the boot are also of the Thracian tribes, but hey.

I do love Imperator, I just did a Bactria playthrough a few months ago. So yeah, I'd love to see a video essay from you on it! And you know I'll be there if you do a Imperator livestream.

That sudden increase in Vicky 2 players is due to isorrrowroduction videos with interesting gameplay part, one of the best Vicky 2 youtubers

More imperator Rome please… I played this weekend. I’m doing my part. Want to know more?

08:30 it is not from the mod. İts called statesmanship which when you give them job thep will slowly build up to their capability.

I think the video's are working. The active players have doubled today, and right now Imperator has almost the exact same amount of players as CKII!

Vicky 2 has a significant modding and multiplayer community considering its age, its instability for mp is its biggest issue

It makes me so happy to see people playing Imperator Rome! I really hope paradox start developing more dlcs and expansions for it. Obviously people stopped playing because paradox cut the development of the game, but in my opinion imperator is a lot better and more interesting than Vic 3.

I'd love to see you do videos on this. I used to play quite a lot. You should definitly do a video reforming the Achaemenid empire. I forget which country, but there's a tiny one in northern anatolia that has the only Achaemenid ruler in the game. It's dificult because everyone else is greek.

The skill rating for the offices is from base game though :)))

That wasn't the silk road it was the king's road which was build long before the silk road by the persian kings of achaemenid empire to connect the most important cities of the empire

I'd love to know more about Bactria!

Well, your video worked. Bought all the dlc on sale and will give it another go. Abandoned it myself before the 2.0 patch….

With the sale on steam, I'm gonna go ahead and grab this game, $7 for base, $14 for all DLC. Maybe we can bring this thing back to life, I need something to play in Last Epoch queue.

The video thumbnail says it all! With Bactria in Invictus, I had military power equal to that of the Great Mauryan Empire, using only levies and mercenaries! Powerful stuff!

Yess lets try to revive it 🥰 so much potential !

3:52 OMG! Victoria 2 music is pretty nice btw.

My favorite paradox game and I still play it with my friends

In the middle of my Achaemenid Empire run with Invictus, Crisis of the Third Century and Timeline Extension, taking it into CK3 in 476.

Is there coming a Imperator livestream. Couse i would love to see it

Keep up the great work Ludi. Love from Brazil

This is nice to watch, I enjoy it :)

This game has one of the best maps and a great concept. It really does deserve more love

I remember I tried that game few times already. Once again a bit tired with EUIV will definetely try the mods

Would love to see an imperator livestream

It’s a shame, v2 plus Invictus is real good. All the extras and flavor! 👌

I hope Ludi makes more Imperator videos

Nice more videos on imperator rome please !!

It appears both Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2017) and Imperator Rome shared similar launch stories. Something about them was not well received until the devs did whatever thing to have influenced people to come back. Though, Imperator is the late bloomer in comparison. However, I’d imagine we’ll see an Imperator 2 first before a Star Wars Battlefront III formally surfaces (not counting the unfinished BF3 by Free Radical prior to Disney’s new management, the Renegade/Elite/Mobile Squadron games, or the upcoming remastered Battlefront legacy titles).

Also, when picking the city to found a Roman Colonia in you should look a little more carefully than the population. The city you pick gets those bonuses for the rest of the game (assimilation and migration attraction I think), it becomes the capital of the province, and it will found a city there if there isn't one already. The capital of the province is important as slaves will be distributed there in wars so it will grow quickly! Coastal cities and cities on freshwater have innate bonuses to population cap as well so late game inland and hilly cities can be inconvenient

That game actually got good towards the end

Ehi Ludi, thank you so much for this video.

It's definitely a game worth playing and being developed. Still a bit naked. Played it recently in January. Will check out the mods

Love all your vids mate I play EU4, Crusader Kings and bought Imperator Rome on release but never played it until I watched this vid so thanks. Why dont you please do us a nice Lets Play be cool. Thanks for your nice content anyway!! Take care xx

The Romans were historically known for their advances in urban infrastructure. Which is why the best tech to take when playing as them is... Rural development

I loved the game at launch, but never relearned it after all the changes. To get back into it now I think I need a guide (especially with these mods that Ludi is using). Ludi should definitely make one.

are you going continue this series?? also you should install the mod Dark Red UI 2.0

Started playing this game again with invictus mod. It is probably my favorite of the Paradox games along HOI4 and Stelaris. Just happy to see it getting some TLC from Paradox with a patch update.

More of this plz

I would love to see a livestream with Imperator Rome

i would like to see a playtrougth of Pontus conquering and closing the black sea

For sure do a vid on bactria would love to see that

If you do a historical video on the bactria I think it would be best if you played as the nation while talking about the history to make it more engaging to the whole audience. But 10/10 idea would watch the video

Well now i want to play It, thanks for this Ludi

This game is actually really fun, hope it resurrects.

Unul dintre jocurile mele favorite, abia aștept noi update-uri.

as a avid EU4 player, I got Imperator as a gift by a friend, but I never actually played it because of the state of the game. Now I'm curious of at least trying it, using the mods mentioned in the video. Does it make sense to get the DLCs as well at this point?

Its on sale now crazy w

You’re the best Ludi!! :)

i like the imperator rome 2.O engine .. maybe we should use it for some fantasy games

@Ludi et Historia bro most intuitive pdx ui is in CK3, not EU4

Installing now, 5 years since i gave it a try

ok i really wish they just take the inviktus dev into the team, give him like 2 more fulltime devs and full source access and pay him a good salary factorio took earendel as an employee (who did the very popular space exploration mod) and now they are doing a fully space DLC :D

I started playing this a little again because all the videos that popped up. I had so high hopes when this was being developed. But on release i was so disappointed that i didn't go back until now. I have all dlc etc. but its a shame that they didn't get to do more with the game. I really dont like the clan/family system. it gets in the way of playing the game in my opinion. And getting negative to characters loyalty when you assign them to a province is really weird because they should be glad you gave them something and you can take it away again easily as long as they are not to disloyal and rebelling. so the debuff with them having power, when it is something given and that can be taken seems like a really bad mekanic. but other than that, there are some really good things and it is quite fun now.

Holly damn i didn't know you are from the same city as mine! Galați FTW

Also, Vicky 2 wasn't primarily Steam release - plenty of people have it on discs and play without Steam.

Imperator has a great base imo. Its quite enjoyables mechanically some polishing and a different time period itd probably be a great game

I loves imperator and I have played as many different nations, from a belgae to a British tribe and all the major nations... just since the fame doesn't release updates, I stopped because nothing new comes. I am so happy all paradox streamers are giving it love

you should definitely do a multiplayer stream with Potatomcwhiskey or something for your 200k milestone :D

full playthrough please

I played a bit of Imperator. There was one thing which made me stop for a good while- they made it impossible to continue the bloodline of Alexander the Great. I put probably 10 hours in trying to continue his bloodline before finding out it's scripted to have no kids and die young, so I quit playing for a while.

i loved the europa rome vae victis, (specialy with the epigoni mod) It had many different starting date offering different starting scenario to play from one faction or the other with their respective historical figure and so on. The part i liked the less in rome was the trading ressource buff and trying to optimise them.... and in imperator .... They 10x that part of the game, i start the game and i just look at trade, think on how to organise it for 5 minutes, then just close the game.

vic 2 is actually an amazing game that has fantastic mods thats why it never really died most people tend to come back every couple months

"I dont have anyone I could potentially get dates from" I feel ya homie

Live-Stream and Bactria-Vid would be HELLA NICE, go for it! =)

I really love this game, developing cities and provinces is fun, connecting the world with roads feels satisfying, loved the pop system. With some economic and cultural DLC this game could have been a masterpiece. Problem is that Rome is boring to play, and every other power's only real goal is to race against Rome and India. Not enough alt history.

The roads in Anatolia/ Persia are the network of Royal roads that were built by the Persian empire during its zenith

Ludi: EU4 music when playing Imperator, Vicky 3 music when playing EU4

I want more ludi ❤

bactria would not be bad but colchis or iberia would be better. keep up the good work 👍

If comparing EU4 and IR, what I prefer from IR are the pops, characters, civil wars, army evolution. EU4 is better mostly, especially the way trade and missions work.

To be honest, not developing not that bad since it don't break our mods.

Bought it at 70% off steam sale yesterday.

Made all of Africa a Greek colony in Imperator Rome. Epic game.

The Holy Grail would be for Paradox to really integrate the conversions from Imperator to HOI4. Just doing that would make the community flock to Imperator again for the epicness of a great run!

Thank you. A great deal at the current sale price with the two mods, and added the CK3 font mod for my eyes; sharpness. Bundle $15 USD

I think this game really deserves a comeback

welp guess I gotta play an imperator rome campaign

Just started playing this again after buying at launch and shelving it for being so bad. It’s now everything I was hoping it would be back when I was playing imperium universalis mod on eu4 in anticipation of it dropping. Imperator Rome definitely deserves a second chance by everyone who tried at the beginning and new players!