The Top 10 Strongest Nations in Imperator: Rome 

The nice folks over at Paradox Interactive have given me early access to Imperator Rome and today we will take a look at the strongest nations to jump start your first campaigns! What future Imperator: Rome content would you like to see? Guides? More top 10s? Let me know in the comments! See you on the next video!

"That's right, they can deploy elephants" Cersei: *Heavy breathing*

Are you the WatchMojo of Paradox games?

It's so nice of the greeks to carve out their empire in a way that will make it balance for us in the future 2,000 years later to play.

Imperator Rome’s map looks like if the entirety of Europe looked like the HRE

I like how every single successor kingdom you said was "undoubtedly the strongest".

Historically Maurya suddenly and swiftly stopped expansion and conquest when her ruler was shocked at what horror he caused at the end of a rather brutal battle; Suddenly converted to buddhism then spent the rest of his life trying to make his empire a wonderful place to live for his subjects only for it to collapse half a century after his death.

*DEUS VUL-* wait sorry wrong game *ZEUS VULT*

Hopefully they given Maurya some obstacles to prevent it from always dominating the east like a Indian Mingsplosion

Mauyra is probably gonna get nerfed like the ming.

"Whatever you do, don't give Rome back their legions" God damn it, Varus, you had one job. Augustus will not be pleased (Love the reference)

I love "Zoro-Austrians"

Forming Persia as Armenia Now that is a plot twist

What about Ulm?

You didn't joke when you said that you're coming back, glad to see you this active.

Chandragupta. No relation to Gupta. He conquered India. But not the Tamil kings. Nobody conquers the Tamil Kings. Also, can you maybe chill, Alexander? Here are elephants.

I would play Etruria just for that purple

this was great, most top 10 videos are often like 'rome is great, so thats why they are number 1, and randompower 2 is also good but not as great, so they are nr 2' you went in depth as much as is reasonable to do, making this so much better than the usual top 10 videos!

♪ Time to conquer all of India ♪

-neither greek roman or western IS THAT A MOTHERFUCKING HRE REFERENCE

It’s nice that you’re posting so often again!

really good video. thanks for posting

First video I went for as I was starting up Imperator. Love your EU4 videos. Please make more Imperator content.

Sparta, Macedon, Epirus and Rome are the ones I Will usually end up playing. Was the Same for me in EU Rome. Keep up the Good work!

Maybe you should make. Eu4 guide: essential military idea groups. Maybe?

Bro you're the man, man!

sir excellent video! you just earned a Subscriber!

I’m a little sad that the games start after the fall of Alexander’s Empire and Rome is already «powerful». Should’ve started 20 years earlier if you ask me, but they did the same thing with EU4 so it’s just Paradox being Paradox I guess.

Excellent video.

Okay, this is epic.

"the great empire that alexander spent a lifetime building" i mean sure, if by lifetime you mean 13 years

*DEUS VUL-* Oh sorry wrong game.

Top content as usual Alzabo. More of the same tbh my dude. It's a nice distraction to hear your thoughts whenever you pop up in my subscription feed.

Are you ever gonna release the Iberian Exodus? Just wondering.

great! :)

As for a suggestion of difficult yet fun and interesting, I direct you towards Scotland having watch The Spiffing Brit recently, and seen the isolated tech exploiting powers they hold.

I swear, Phrygia will become the Byzantium of Imperator: Rome.

Glade I found your channel.

Phyrygian one-eyed pirate dude looks menacing!

Great and useful video! Just to know, diadochi or diádochoi it sounds as you read it (diadoki), not like a Japanese name daiadoshi.

You totally forgot about Thrace whenever you talked about the Alexander successors. xD

Okay, now I want to play with Egypt, Rome and Maurya ^^

cant wait for the Byzantion guides

Hey did you get your monetization back? This just happened to me as well. It’s tragic.

Just curious, how are the Parthians in-game? By far the nation I'm looking forward the most after Carthage.

Well, what a surprise, I actually was betting on Phrygia to be on top, mostly because... Ahem... Well, Ottomans.

I'm waiting on those EU4 military ideas video. I hope Imperator doesn't delay those!

Im already hyped as fk for that game :D

Hold on, we're clearing missing the superpower BOI, such an underdog they are.

I love how you pronounce "Hellas" the correct way, unlike most English speakers.

I really wish they would do a game like this or ck2 set in east Asia!

I can't wait for the $300 of DLC that will be released over the next decade. Paradox turned games into love services long before the AAA publishers did.

I’m curious, how powerful is Chola in the game? I know sometime within the timespan of the game they become a powerful southern Indian Empire but I’m interested in what those ideas are.

Top ten most difficult factions next?

What about creating the "Holy What, Roman Who, Empire Where?" I need this to be an achievement, creating the later HRE by conquering and settling the territories as a Germanic migratory tribe start.

cheeky b&b reference in the Maurya section. Jai Bhole Ki!

Now make this type of videos for HoI4 Vic2, CK2 and Eu3

hey... this are not military ides for eu4..... :c

Diadochi is spelled like this: the-ath-oh-he not : diodachi. that sounds way too japanese for any greek not cringe at. Also fun fact, diadochi means successors

Nice video, but oh, the pronunciations!

"Rebel Wack-a-Mole". A phrase I will use now

Would a fully unified and held together Argead empire oust the mauryans as the strongest nation?

How would Syracuse rank? I'd think being one of the largest Greeks cities would mean a relatively easy start (if we ignore Carthage being next to you).

Just fyi, you're incorrect about Phrygia losing their claims on the diadochi on the ruler's death. It's like that for the rest of the diadochi but they keep their claims till the death of their second ruler, Demetrius (probably). Also needs to take Corinth within their first ruler's life otherwise they can start to collapse

3:44 Armenia will remember that...

I think you forgot to take into consideration that Rome, gets CBs by event. And if you don't start unnecessary wars, the game will feed you claims like a mama bird feeds her hatchlings.

I'm rather interested in the Greco-Bactrians, personally. Quite an interesting little nation, the furthest East fringes of Alexander's empire, I think it'd be interesting to conquer Central Asia and eventually the Mauryans, hellenize India for the hell of it.

So you're telling me, Rome isn't the strongest country in a game about Rome?

They really need to increase the problem of Revolts in regions that are outside your main culture group

Rather than converting the religion of pops, it's better to convert their culture, as this provides a greater boost to pop happiness. Though ideally you want to do both. Plus religeous power isn't hard to come by, and so you can manually convert pops once you have a surplus of it.

How about getia is a good country? because historical they was very good at army and economy

I wish they add Xiongnu as well, they were meant to be military powerhouse

What do you make of Ulutia? I colonized all of Ireland as them before Rome united Italy, along with conquering most of the UK. They are fun so far

Can't wait to play Pyrus and go est instead of west.

I tend to disagree with the list. It really depends on the player's preferred playstyle. For example, starting as Egypt, Seleucid, Maurya, and even Phrygia or Carthage if you have slight OCD is not going to be a good recipe for fun. You're more likely to drop the game. For these people Rome/Macedon would rank on the top 2 positions, Rome has it particularly easier for early expansion. I found it difficult even to deal with Carthage's problems - it's not that it was a too difficult starting position, it was simply tedious. I much rather deal with a mess of my own making rather than to solve the gridlock puzzle of pops and scathered territories the devs devised for us. I would even consider cheats to ameliorate the situation, you either have the stomach for it or not. Maybe it's not a newb friendly start, but an OP start is also in the N-W corner of the map because you don't meat any superpowers for some time. You slowly begin your pre-viking tribal empire and trample every other nation on the map in mid to late game with ease, showing them better and more honest ways. You have to min-max a bit for a while, but despite starting with an apparently weaker nation, your position is so safe and allows you to expand on so much territoriy in relative safety that the other super powers won't be able to compete with you when you finally get closer to their borders.

im going to play as the Seleucids i wonder if its possible to beat the empire of maurya right of the bat

How is sparta?

cant wait to play as judea and conquer rome, it should be an achievement

Hmm, an Etruscan Empire does sound pretty nice

*when you realize this is not the comment section of the ad you're watching*

The UI... Oh, the UI...

Go Seleucids!

those sweet sweet pronunciations

Why are the Seleucids #3 when you had almost no good things to say about playing them?

4:40 why bizarrely? ancient Armenian cult used to be fairly close to Persian

I wonder what number 1 will be.

Does the game have some depth? I'd love to play IR, but after MEIOU&Taxes every Paradox vanilla feels like a mobile game...

*cries in spartan"*

Jay Bolaki!

Sick JoJo reference at 8:28

Nice 100 000 views

360p baby

Can’t wait for the Jesus DLC

Maurya never expanded west due to one battle and a peace treaty. I wonder if that’s possible in this game. More so. I wonder what the world the would have looked like if the Greeks didn’t stop them.

This looks to me like the Game Rome II should have been "You are the son that I should have had"

The ch in diadochi is is a k sound not a normal ch.

the game isn't even released yet and you upload this game

“Abort Rome in its infancy” Weird phrasing bro...

Eventually the Maurya will be nerfed due to being very OP

Jai Bhole Ki!