Imperator Rome: Rome wasn't patched in a day!

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MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

I wanna give this game another shot now that it has a ton of patches and dlcs. What's the best start for the Perfidious Albion cheevo?

# ¿ May 30, 2021 18:52

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 02:41

MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

trapped mouse posted:

Brigantia. The Brigantic culture starts off with 97 pops, which is absolutely pathetic, but it's far more than any other culture on the larger of the two islands. Plus it's nice and centrally located. Make sure to integrate Hibernian culture, it will make the colonization of the vast wasteland of Ireland much easier.

Alright thanks.

# ¿ May 30, 2021 20:26

MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

Played as Brigantia and Epirus yesterday, and wow it's amazing how much the game wa simproved since last time I tried it.

I got a whole bunch of questions about mechanics though haha.

# ¿ May 31, 2021 13:04

MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

trapped mouse posted:

Well feel free to ask them here, this thread could use the activity.

Alright, the new Wonder screen is kind of mystifying me.

How do I tech up? I'm assuming the old Spiff exploit to gain infinite tech doesn't work anymore.

Does Difficulty affect the achievements I can get?

I had other ones but I don,t remember them now.

# ¿ May 31, 2021 18:03

MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

KOGAHAZAN!! posted:

Wonders are basically like ideas you have to build. They improve over time and the more you spend on them to start with the better they start. Not sure how cost effective they are but there are some really good bonuses in there now.

Teching up means citizens and nobles, which means getting as many pops into cities as possible- found them if you can, move pops in if you can't. Founding a new city is always a better idea than building buildings to improve an existing one.

Eventually you'll hit your tech rate cap (it's not hard), so you want to anticipate that and tech towards the techs that increase that cap. There are, I think, four? Three or four and one extra for having integrated Greeks.

No idea about cheevos.

Thanks, gonna try those when I restart a Brigantia run tonight.

And how do the new God Shrines work?

# ¿ May 31, 2021 20:55

MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

I keep starting games and then quitting after 10 years to try another start lol.

# ¿ Jun 3, 2021 03:34

MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

After failing to get Perfidious Albion, I might try to form Gaul since it doesn't have a timer.

Might use Avernia since they have a unique heritage.

# ¿ Jun 3, 2021 15:56

MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

Here's little Arvernia, taking it slow, just conquering what is needed to have the entire Arvernia province, slowly building cities and teching up.

Suddenly huge Roman blob. I might need to go on the warpath!!!

# ¿ Jun 4, 2021 00:19

MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

DrSunshine posted:

With the Steam sale Imperator's only like $11 for the Centurion bundle, I'm considering grabbing it -- is it any good yet?

Yes, it's arguably better than EU4 right now.

# ¿ Jun 26, 2021 17:30

MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

Someone pitch me a country to play/achievement to aim for. I'm a beginner and need to learn.

# ¿ Jul 1, 2021 19:16

MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

KOGAHAZAN!! posted:

Ah, you should always be raising your levies even if you're not going to use them to fight. Once you're large enough and you have enough starting xp mods, you can start cheesing military experience from them and unlock basically every tradition in every tradition tree, which can lead to some wild poo poo.

Look at these loving space marines, and I haven't even unlocked the Indic trees yet:

Also one of the best ways to increase your levy size multiplier

Wait I thought you shouldn't raise Levies because they use POPs?

# ¿ Aug 2, 2021 21:13

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 02:41

MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

Azuren posted:

They do use them temporarily, but you don't lose them permanently unless the levy gets stackwiped. It does ding your economy/research/war exhaustion though, which is why I tried to avoid them once I had legions online.

E: Another weird bug that I've only seen in post-2.0: once I got to far-away lands, IIRC deep into barbarian Hispania and Gaul, and in Armenia, I'd occasionally find cities that were still producing food trade goods. Looked like they were default cities, too, and not ones the AI had built on top of food territories. Was curious.

Right, so if I understand you right I should raise levies until I can replace them with Legions so I can farm military xp.

# ¿ Aug 3, 2021 01:27

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