First country I played as after watching a couple of your videos. Had a good run and used what I learned from you. Then Egypt took my whole nation in one war. Well there went 8 hours of Ironman.
hey man, just a quick tip. If you go to game settings, you can change when the info boxes lock from "timer" to "action key" and it makes it so pressing the middle mouse button will lock the info screen. That way they dont annoy you lol
I picked this game up after the 2.0 patch and just wanted to say thank you for these guides! They've been a massive help learning and enjoying the game. Can't wait to watch the next ones!
Damn. I was playing Rome (first time), have almost all Italy and was going crazy micromanaging all trade routs. Now this is another world. (I spent like hours seeing which citizens needed happiness so bought those goods, or the strategic ones, etc, was crazy)
I just bought the game the other day and your guides and Egypt play through have assisted me ( I'm also playing Ptolemy) . After many hours of frustration, I believe I'm getting the hang of it. I'm also realizing there is a lot of RNG involved. Some of the game is very unintuitive even coming from CK3.
9:40 Marketplaces increase how many trade routes a city produces. You can see how it affects the calculation by hovering over the trade route total at the bottom left (0.36 in this case). 13:45 Trade goods can be produced anywhere; it's not linked to a territory being a city or settlement. Building a city on a food producing trade good (except for honey and I believe salt) will replace the food good with something else. At game start, there are I believe two cities that start out producing food, something that can't usually be reproduced by the player. 21:20 sadly, you can not stack the interesting buildings in settlements. You'd have to pair a mine or farming estate with something else.
Commerce is just bonkers overpowered in this game. As Epirus i conquered Rome early(using the mission tree to help with feudatories and alliances) to prevent them from growing too big later on in the game, and when i was finished and integrated Roman culture i was just getting 30 gold per month its soooooo dumb haha
Nah it‘s way more realistic the way it is. There basically were no taxes in the ancient era. (England and France invented regular taxes during the 100 years war ) The investments and money for public infrastructure and stuff came from wealthy families and merchant who therefore gained political power/regocnition in the community. Their were only rudimentary kind of taxes for huge investments, but that was just on a kore or less voluntary basis from wealthy nobles.
@Wave da Breaker When I first read this I thought 'well that's a load of BS... like, coinage had been a thing for millennia before then. Duh!' XD But then I thought, well as coinage then was non-fiat (and obviously valuable and limited) then yeah, probably wasn't used by common people. So you are saying that it was during the Hundred Years Wars that coinage usage become more wide spread (so people could pay "regular taxes") or where those taxes levied in a different form? If so, how is that any different from paying a tithe, or such?
Just wanted to tell you that your guides on this game are so good. The guides that come up on the front page when you search for them really don't explain things properly but you actual show how stuff works in practice. Imperator just seems like a great paradox game that mixes eu4 conquest with Victoria pop and economy management, a happy medium kind of game between these two
Glad to help. Yeah most people's guides are rather unhelpful and limited which is why I did these. However they are more famous and popular so they get more hits...
Just found you, great guides! I had only put 20 hours into the game from 1-1.5, but am back and spending a lot more time now. Your guides really helped me get back into it.
Learn how to move slaves into settlements to produce extra trade goods. They also produce tax which adds up if you have lots of them from conquest. I enslave whole cultures in the culture tab. Put them all to work.
It sometimes seems to get bugged, or else everyone around you hates you... Try either going to commerce stance or manually doing the trade routes for a bit (manually doing it seemed to fix it for me when it happens)
apparently the AI try to focus on food and some strategic goods but they never try to import from your other provinces so they constantly get rejected with low opinion or when trying to get some stragegic resourses that could make the AI lose their capital bonuses. I got constantly spamed about carthage and rome don't selling me wood... despite 5 of my provinces having +3 surplus...
I feel as if it changes drastically depending on who you play. If I play as a opm in greece, the antigonids usually stay. If not I have most of the times seen Macedon take over the antignoids and splitting up the rest
Started as kugia in the Kaukasus. My capital has 10 trace Route and 25 building. My next investment costs 300 gold. Couldnt do the free investment early on because of as I started as incivilized.
Can you do a video more based on pops and on how to manage your provinces happiness stop rebellions just more overall empire management this is a great video to grasp the economy side of things though
@@LordForwind thanks man really appreciate it been playing as rome and as soon as i get to great power status after war with carthage I just keep exploding into rebellions and civil wars lol
@@laszlokiss483 converting pops and flipping culture is priority 1 after crossing to Carthage and fighting disloyalty of provinces and governors. I keep a few small armies as places to keep families kids happy. Not too much power, just enough loyalty.
@@LordForwind thank you!! Because when im expanding i dont get any soldier capacity for my legion and when im giving them noble rights for integration , my culture starts to being unhappy i cant control them and that makes me so confused
@@berkkarakas4762 after an Heraclea pontica to Persian empire run, I advice you only integrate a culture to unlock additional traditions from your military tree or when you need more levies/legions fast. Example, you manage to conquer armenia, they have as much population as you and the Seleucids are mad at you, integrate the armenians and now your army is 2 times bigger than before and the province is less rebelious. If you don't need the extra traditions and are secure with your current army, just focus on asimilation/conversion. Also for integration, only never go full nobility rights, stick with citicens at most for integrated and keep nobles only from your starting pop or the happines malus get to big
Hey, I just wanted to say that I love these guides and have subbed, truly brilliant content! However, I just have one question, is there any benefit to internal trade, that is to say importing a surplus from one of your territories to another you own? I've been doing it where possible because I assume there is a benefit but idk if its the right thing to do. Big thanks if you can clear this matter up!
Hey, I've got a question : Did they change how the movement of slaves works with the marius update? Before the update you had to move every slave pop manually through your empire to the desired province which could take up a lot of time and especially patience if you had a lot of territory, which was why I just stopped bothering about the estate mechanic alltogether. Also, I despised that all captured slaves would go to the province capital of the nearest state, as that caused massive overcrowding and affected your pop happiness. I hope they fixed it because that was one of the reasons I stopped playing the game.
@@LordForwind damn, I really like the major overhaul and flavor that added this update but in my (and certainly others) eyes the core problems remain basically untouched, such as the huge amount of micro management (that you have to do while paused as not to forget anything) so that your empire doesn't collapse and the lack of an endgame as you grow so powerful during the late early-/midgame that nothing can stop you except the lazy mechanic of AE ( literally like in vic 2) which is why I don't think this update will revive the game for a long while :(
This update has drastically revived the game, its actually good now. I dont really do any micromanagement and it plays fine for me. Especially since slaves and taxes are pointless right now and commerce is all you care about! AE is good mechanic in my option especially in this game where it does more dmg than eu4!
@@LordForwind AE is good if you want to roleplay and/or play historical, but the problem is that the timespan of the game is far to short to really conquer the "world" or a significant chunk of it like all of mainland europe without rushing wars and playing super aggressive as you would simply run out of time if you tried to do it in a balanced, historical way and not raising your AE over the limit. This makes sense as the roman empire took centuries to expand to it's full extend, but waiting for the AE to trickle down really feels like you are wasting precious time ingame as that's less time to conquer and in real life because you can't really do much except tampering with the now pointless micromanagement...
@@LordForwindI disagree that slaves and taxes are pointless. But I do agree that the micromanagement required is tedious. If you do take the time to move slaves into settlements correctly, then it’s very profitable.
Click on a territory and where the colored settlement icon in the middle of the page, click on that and it should change to have several new pictures, one of which is found new city. Also how you upgrade cities.
I wouldn't recommend Judea for a new player since its sandwiched between all the diadochi. Sure you are "protected" by the antogonids but they kinda explode early when antogonid dies. Seleucid will grab antogonid Syria and Egypt will probably want your land. Even with the omen bonus and free investments it's still not worth IMO unless you're lucky and manage to ally Seleucids
Dont go too far down that hole of crazy, it works better other nations, Judea is only my recommendation due to the prophet omen ability, which you can get on other countries and religions as well
The real decision when playing as judea is whether you're the Judean Peoples Front or the Peoples Front of Judea
Very true or if you can spell Romans go home, romanus eunt dominus?
@@LordForwind actually I have a vewy good fwiend in wome that can spell "Romans go home"...
You had to be that guy, didn't you. 🙄
Found a spoon captain!
Free Palestine!! alalalala
Hey, I just wanted to say that I bought the game yesterday, and your guides really helped me start off, good stuff thanks!
Glad you like them! I have more coming out soon!
First country I played as after watching a couple of your videos. Had a good run and used what I learned from you.
Then Egypt took my whole nation in one war.
Well there went 8 hours of Ironman.
Yeah the warscore needs some patching
Not too sure, I find it way better than in EU4 and it is way more realistic for the Time. Countries just went big and took it all.
hey man, just a quick tip. If you go to game settings, you can change when the info boxes lock from "timer" to "action key" and it makes it so pressing the middle mouse button will lock the info screen. That way they dont annoy you lol
Thanks!
I picked this game up after the 2.0 patch and just wanted to say thank you for these guides! They've been a massive help learning and enjoying the game. Can't wait to watch the next ones!
Glad you like them! Next one is tribal economy and is short but after that I should have longer ones again!
Damn. I was playing Rome (first time), have almost all Italy and was going crazy micromanaging all trade routs. Now this is another world. (I spent like hours seeing which citizens needed happiness so bought those goods, or the strategic ones, etc, was crazy)
auto trade is amazing
I just bought the game the other day and your guides and Egypt play through have assisted me ( I'm also playing Ptolemy) . After many hours of frustration, I believe I'm getting the hang of it. I'm also realizing there is a lot of RNG involved. Some of the game is very unintuitive even coming from CK3.
Yeah it's a hybrid between Ck and Eu.
@@LordForwind I would really like to see a guide on loyalty and keeping generals and governors loyal. If you have the time.
9:40 Marketplaces increase how many trade routes a city produces. You can see how it affects the calculation by hovering over the trade route total at the bottom left (0.36 in this case).
13:45 Trade goods can be produced anywhere; it's not linked to a territory being a city or settlement. Building a city on a food producing trade good (except for honey and I believe salt) will replace the food good with something else. At game start, there are I believe two cities that start out producing food, something that can't usually be reproduced by the player.
21:20 sadly, you can not stack the interesting buildings in settlements. You'd have to pair a mine or farming estate with something else.
yep!
Commerce is just bonkers overpowered in this game.
As Epirus i conquered Rome early(using the mission tree to help with feudatories and alliances) to prevent them from growing too big later on in the game, and when i was finished and integrated Roman culture i was just getting 30 gold per month its soooooo dumb haha
yeah it needs to be patched down and taxes patched up
Yeah. They should nerf commerce quite a bit, and give tax income a slight buff. Then I think the balance would be just right.
Nah it‘s way more realistic the way it is. There basically were no taxes in the ancient era. (England and France invented regular taxes during the 100 years war ) The investments and money for public infrastructure and stuff came from wealthy families and merchant who therefore gained political power/regocnition in the community. Their were only rudimentary kind of taxes for huge investments, but that was just on a kore or less voluntary basis from wealthy nobles.
@Wave da Breaker When I first read this I thought 'well that's a load of BS... like, coinage had been a thing for millennia before then. Duh!' XD
But then I thought, well as coinage then was non-fiat (and obviously valuable and limited) then yeah, probably wasn't used by common people.
So you are saying that it was during the Hundred Years Wars that coinage usage become more wide spread (so people could pay "regular taxes") or where those taxes levied in a different form? If so, how is that any different from paying a tithe, or such?
Straight to the point, no BS. Thanks man!
Thank you!
Just wanted to tell you that your guides on this game are so good. The guides that come up on the front page when you search for them really don't explain things properly but you actual show how stuff works in practice. Imperator just seems like a great paradox game that mixes eu4 conquest with Victoria pop and economy management, a happy medium kind of game between these two
Glad to help. Yeah most people's guides are rather unhelpful and limited which is why I did these. However they are more famous and popular so they get more hits...
@@LordForwind thanks man it saddens me your videos didn't get as much attention but know that I am greatly appreciating them
An awesome help, subbed and started watching youe eu4 sweden vids when cooking dinner. Good stuff.
Welcome aboard! Thanks for the sub, I have tons of videos if you like listening to them while cooking! I enjoy a good YT series while doing so myself!
watched this four times to understand the nuances. A lot of good stuff in there. Just subbed!
Glad to help. I did several guides on the game so check them all out. Should all be in a playlist
Just found you, great guides! I had only put 20 hours into the game from 1-1.5, but am back and spending a lot more time now. Your guides really helped me get back into it.
Welcome aboard! Its a much better game now!
This series is one of the best I:R resources out there. Thanks!
Glad it helped you!
How to make money in I:R:
buy goods
Or at least tax them
Learn how to move slaves into settlements to produce extra trade goods. They also produce tax which adds up if you have lots of them from conquest. I enslave whole cultures in the culture tab. Put them all to work.
Your videos are really helpful.
Glad to hear that!
* rubs hands *
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Guys is it just me or automatic trade doesn't work? I mean, I wait years and it stays at 0 import routes when I could have like 6 :/
It sometimes seems to get bugged, or else everyone around you hates you... Try either going to commerce stance or manually doing the trade routes for a bit (manually doing it seemed to fix it for me when it happens)
apparently the AI try to focus on food and some strategic goods but they never try to import from your other provinces so they constantly get rejected with low opinion or when trying to get some stragegic resourses that could make the AI lose their capital bonuses. I got constantly spamed about carthage and rome don't selling me wood... despite 5 of my provinces having +3 surplus...
@@LordForwind Ok thanks for the tip man!
I dunno if this is reare but the Antigonids collapsed rapidlyy a few years into the game, I guess I lost my overlord?
They tend to die but then usually egypt takes over as overlord
I feel as if it changes drastically depending on who you play. If I play as a opm in greece, the antigonids usually stay. If not I have most of the times seen Macedon take over the antignoids and splitting up the rest
Started as kugia in the Kaukasus.
My capital has 10 trace Route and 25 building. My next investment costs 300 gold. Couldnt do the free investment early on because of as I started as incivilized.
if your capital is expensive, develop another province for cheaper!
@@LordForwind yep, was Planung to do that, and thx to you I learned of few new features
Thanks. Really helping
Glad to help
Great - as always! Thanks a lot! :)))
Thank you too!
thanks man this was really helpful
Glad to hear it helped!
Can you do a video more based on pops and on how to manage your provinces happiness stop rebellions just more overall empire management this is a great video to grasp the economy side of things though
Yep can do
@@LordForwind thanks man really appreciate it been playing as rome and as soon as i get to great power status after war with carthage I just keep exploding into rebellions and civil wars lol
@@laszlokiss483 converting pops and flipping culture is priority 1 after crossing to Carthage and fighting disloyalty of provinces and governors. I keep a few small armies as places to keep families kids happy. Not too much power, just enough loyalty.
Can you also make guide for populations, keeping people loyal /senate support and when to integrate culture
I can try to!
@@LordForwind thank you!! Because when im expanding i dont get any soldier capacity for my legion and when im giving them noble rights for integration , my culture starts to being unhappy i cant control them and that makes me so confused
@@berkkarakas4762 after an Heraclea pontica to Persian empire run, I advice you only integrate a culture to unlock additional traditions from your military tree or when you need more levies/legions fast. Example, you manage to conquer armenia, they have as much population as you and the Seleucids are mad at you, integrate the armenians and now your army is 2 times bigger than before and the province is less rebelious. If you don't need the extra traditions and are secure with your current army, just focus on asimilation/conversion. Also for integration, only never go full nobility rights, stick with citicens at most for integrated and keep nobles only from your starting pop or the happines malus get to big
Lord Forwind is awesome
Lord Forwind approves with a slow nod.
Imperator Rome. ive watched so many videos and played a good few playthroughs and still im like wtf when it comes to some of the mechanics.
its confusing, in addition it was never finished so something are a bit weird
Thanks, that helped a lot!
Glad it helped!
So Judea's good at economy because they have the best prophets?
kind of? Its more they start with one of the more OP omen abilities at the start, the free improvement one
@@LordForwind that seems very prophetable for them
Do buildings count for the whole province our just the territory they are in?
just territory
Thanks
i should have watched the vid before i was 12 hours broke in the game
while at least you did eventually
Thanks I learned a lot!
Gals to help, any other questions?
Not really touched on, but say you're playing in the more rural parts of the map, when and how many cities do you build or want in a province.
lots in the capital maybe 1 in every other province
Hey, I just wanted to say that I love these guides and have subbed, truly brilliant content! However, I just have one question, is there any benefit to internal trade, that is to say importing a surplus from one of your territories to another you own? I've been doing it where possible because I assume there is a benefit but idk if its the right thing to do. Big thanks if you can clear this matter up!
Stability of the trade routes, and to spread any surplus around your lands, or if you have no trading partners. But usually it's not worth it
@@LordForwind Ah, interesting. Thanks a lot!
No prob
Hey, I've got a question : Did they change how the movement of slaves works with the marius update? Before the update you had to move every slave pop manually through your empire to the desired province which could take up a lot of time and especially patience if you had a lot of territory, which was why I just stopped bothering about the estate mechanic alltogether. Also, I despised that all captured slaves would go to the province capital of the nearest state, as that caused massive overcrowding and affected your pop happiness. I hope they fixed it because that was one of the reasons I stopped playing the game.
nope they really didnt, if anything its worse since they can migrate away from where you put them faster than before
@@LordForwind damn, I really like the major overhaul and flavor that added this update but in my (and certainly others) eyes the core problems remain basically untouched, such as the huge amount of micro management (that you have to do while paused as not to forget anything) so that your empire doesn't collapse and the lack of an endgame as you grow so powerful during the late early-/midgame that nothing can stop you except the lazy mechanic of AE ( literally like in vic 2) which is why I don't think this update will revive the game for a long while :(
This update has drastically revived the game, its actually good now. I dont really do any micromanagement and it plays fine for me. Especially since slaves and taxes are pointless right now and commerce is all you care about! AE is good mechanic in my option especially in this game where it does more dmg than eu4!
@@LordForwind AE is good if you want to roleplay and/or play historical, but the problem is that the timespan of the game is far to short to really conquer the "world" or a significant chunk of it like all of mainland europe without rushing wars and playing super aggressive as you would simply run out of time if you tried to do it in a balanced, historical way and not raising your AE over the limit. This makes sense as the roman empire took centuries to expand to it's full extend, but waiting for the AE to trickle down really feels like you are wasting precious time ingame as that's less time to conquer and in real life because you can't really do much except tampering with the now pointless micromanagement...
@@LordForwindI disagree that slaves and taxes are pointless. But I do agree that the micromanagement required is tedious. If you do take the time to move slaves into settlements correctly, then it’s very profitable.
How do I create the Metropolis status? pls I cant find it
It's in the middle of the city screen click on the picture on the right side to open the menu
do you think it is worth making slave cities? especially since it impacts your military?
not really, most money is from commerce currently
How to found a new city ?
Click on a territory and where the colored settlement icon in the middle of the page, click on that and it should change to have several new pictures, one of which is found new city. Also how you upgrade cities.
I wouldn't recommend Judea for a new player since its sandwiched between all the diadochi. Sure you are "protected" by the antogonids but they kinda explode early when antogonid dies. Seleucid will grab antogonid Syria and Egypt will probably want your land. Even with the omen bonus and free investments it's still not worth IMO unless you're lucky and manage to ally Seleucids
um didnt you hear me say that the overlordship transfers? You become a subject of Egypt in my 5 test games
@@LordForwind damn I was basing this on the pre 2.0 patch sorry
yeah prior to 2.0 it was a bad start, now perfect for testing strats
Wow, who could have foreseen that the jews would be the richest in the game. *rubs tinfoil hat*
Dont go too far down that hole of crazy, it works better other nations, Judea is only my recommendation due to the prophet omen ability, which you can get on other countries and religions as well