I know this is a long video and some of it is self-explanatory but I wanted to cover everything and surprisingly I have gotten lots of questions on basic feature so I covered all of them. If I missed something let me know and I'll try to explain it in comments.
Hello again. I have a question about army comp. Returning to the Bosphorous. I have a legion with horse archers as my front line, heavy inf. as my secondary line, and heavy cav. as flankers. Well, my doubt is the viability of this comp? Thanks in advance
I just want to say that cohort loyalty is actually a really useful mechanic when micromanaged. If you split up your legion among the multiple genrals allowed, you can balance the power between your armies and the loyal cohorts will not only be free they will also fight harder. I've used it to my benefit to make levy stomping legions that can fight lower quality armies twice their size with ease. Also you save a lot of your economy for investment into provinces.
Another tip for the traditions: After you unlock another culture's traditions, you can unintegrate them and still have access to the their traditions. Very useful.
There is actually a reason why you might not want to take a military tradition as soon as you have 80XP, the XP that you have increases the morale of your armies, you can hover over the XP to see by how much (80 XP gives about 5% morale).
You stated that there is no reason not to buy military traditions when available. But there is - If you have a lot of military experience it increases armies' morale. So if you get enough ME to buy a tradition but you're at war or about to go to war, it may be worthwhile to sit on it for awhile to get the morale boost, then buy the tradition and start re-building your ME while you're at peace.
Elephants were infamously bad against an enemy that knew how to handle them. They did spank the ever loving crap out of people who were utterly confused by their mere existence though. Rome got spanked a few times because of them, but, eventually, figured out to handle them almost meme tier ease.
TY, lots learned. Biggest bit I still don't know is what to select in 3 parts of army. Front line, second line, flanks, plus of course flank size effects? I'm defaulting to best in front, next behind, horses on flank, but don't know if this works in game as in reality!
Great guides just like with CK3, glad to see you playing Imperator! Extra tip for sieges and pops I don't think you mentioned: If the AI hasn't cheated a million forts into existence, and you just need to take the province capital you can prevent many pops from dying due to individual sieges.
18:00 But what does flank size do? If you have more cavalry, do you want higher or lower flank size? I seem to remember, flanking units have a movement score, so if they have high movement, then you want high flank size (and vice versa)?
I needed this. Just got the game played as Sparta and got dominated by Messenia. Obliterated. I went to war with them when they had like 7 allies. I had none. lol I'm just going to play the tutorial and play as Rome for now.
Basically I mean you create an army with just supply trains and run them back and forth from your high supply provinces, merge them with the army then split them into a other army again and repeat. They will deliver their supplies to the army
I think legion loyalty can be really good IF the general is loyal. It only becomes a problem if they are disloyal and loyalty gives a bunch of bonuses in addition to having a lot of power base loyal to the government through the general.
Hey this isn't really related per se, but at the start of the game I (Rome) keep trying to invade Etruscia, but for some reason it says I am truce breaking. Any idea why?
Thanks! Rome starts with a truce with them, go south first and attack those countries first and come back when the truce is done. There is no rush to conquer them, they never get super strong unless they kill you.
Thank you very much, for a very good guide. I can't find any game instructions/info anywhere in game, am i missing something? Is there somewhere i can see a Wiki or game guide? Also i can print a game guide, wiki for hand held reference? Thanks again for all you help!!!
You can't like eu4, your force limit is based off the citizen population in your province. So growing the population or making another culture citizens is the only way.
so, why bother putting light infantry in a legion anyway? i'm in my rome save about to build my first legion and i don't know why i'd even bother putting any light infantry in it
Well, I use them when I'm playing smaller nations to fill out the legions (I think Light Inf. is 3x cheaper in monthly costs than Heavy). Considering you're playing the Rome there's no point in making those
HOW THE F DO I EMBARK MY UNITS. WHENEVER I GO TO EMBARK THEM ON A TRIREME OF MINE IT SAYS ITS TOO SMALL. NO MATTER WHAT SHIP OR HOW MANY SHIPS I HAVE AND TRY TO EMBARK THEM IT SAYS TOO SMALL
Each ship can carry only one unit at a time, so either you don't have enough or somehow it's trying to use a small fleet. Try building larger and then automating the ships to support naval transports.
Is there a way to change the composition of levies? Starting out playing with Rome I have a bunch of light cavalry, after a while it switched to archers, then it switched back.
Hey, How do i know What tactic my enemy got ? I wanna make a barbarian campaign but Im not sure How im actuelly gonna fight rome should i use hit and run on them or any tips ?
Its worth creating them, but at the same time you want land, so I just stick with what I get from start plus missions. Also only of your culture are feudatories so most of southern italy was not eligible
So they can positive or negative, based off events in the legions's history. Winning seiges or losing a series of battles get you medals. The negative ones really hurt.
Man wish I had this video when I started the Marius runs, levies are cool though. How many cultures do you usually integrate? I’d think keeping a few just to bolster your levies but maybe relying on them is just bad for the long run and happiness is better
So far my strat is to only integrate nations when they are usually above 100 pop early game or 300 late game. I focus on conversion then culture conversion, you get a lot from religious innovtions. If you want more levies intregrate more if you want to use legion, less seems to be better.
@@LordForwind Ok, well thank you for the reply. You don't happen to know how to "colonize territory"? I get the little green flag, but then can't move people in there?
Idk if you mentioned it here and I missed it/mentioned it another video, but how does the game count your fort levels by the max fort in the state? Is it 3 for all forts? I only ask because I have an annoying habit of not wanting to entirely gut the fort infrastructure of new land I conquer, so I end up with 6/5 forts and don't ever seem to have enough Influence to increase the cap lol
Each level 1 fort counts for 3, but each extra level above 2 only counts for an additional 1 points. So a province with a lvl 1 and a lvl 2 fort would require 7 fort capacity. The fort wiki page has a bunch more about the minor things for are good for such as provincial loyalty
If you're Rome you get an event or else you need to hit the largest size county rank and change one of your laws as well and go far down the military innovation tree
carthage head start against my rome just won’t go away, cost me like 600 gold for mercenaries just to get a white peace the last time they declare war. You have any tips for this situation ?
hmmm, you do out tech them given time and if you conquer southern Italy beating them is easy. Just hold them off and conquer lands when you are at peace. Try to fill out the legion and try and stackwipe them when they land.
Suffice to say that’s a repetitive use of suffice to say. That was a good video, thank you. Say suffice to say again, say suffice to say again; I dare you, I double dare you Lord Forwind, say suffice to say one more God damn time.
@@LordForwind 😀Yeah. Just playing with you. Did you notice that I used lines from Pulp Fiction but modified¿ This tutorial was helpful. This game is really well done. So much to do.
@@LordForwind I'd love a loyalty guide! It's the only thing that's keeping me back from fully enjoying the game. Picked up tricks here and there, like giving researchers free hands, but it's the one area I have a hard time with.
These are okay strategies for "wide" play, but with the powerful pop system it's very easy to to play tall as well. In which theese srartegies are better for wide play than tall play. I mean your advice on supply trains is very bad. You should have a smaller army behind your main force that hold your reserves and supply trains. Then you can shuffle supply trains in and out of the main army saving spots for actual combat troops and have a proper renforcing army.
Just got back into Imperator Rome and boy has the Marius update been a shock… and not in a good way for me. The levy system in CK3 is very straightforward. In this game I think it needs reworked again. Playing as tribal is broken. I rely on levies (from a single province due to size). I had a general lose loyalty mid war so he took command of his own warband (you can’t consolidate your armies if they’re levies as you mentioned). After the war I disbanded the levies because I was no longer at war. The disloyal general didn’t disband because he had his own agenda (that being just random BS as per usual with disloyal general). Well because this one war general has his small contingent of my provincial levies still raised, I was unable to raise my levies for the civil war. Edit: Also I’ve noticed consistently that the game makes me wait 24 months in order to raise levies a second time. 2 whole years. That’s ridiculous to say the least. Another edit: I also have no idea how to feed levies because in the game I played only one of the armies had a supply train. The other levies did not.
Yeah playing with tribal nations isnt that great if you arent good at keeping tribal leaders happy. The 2 years on levies is due to tradition exploits. Feeding levies is difficult, you have to constantly be moving them back to your lands to resupply. Sadly its unlikely the game will ever be reworked since its a dead game basically!
I love History , That is why i tried this game , but Jesus Chrsit , once i commenced battle and declared war , i didnt know whats going on . Everyone running around i dont know who i who , and im good at history . That is why im watching this .
@@LordForwind yeah , didnt know , found out . Didnt know how to conquer a province once i won it in war , figure you have to do it by diplomacy > Now i dont know what to do with depleted army of Levies , like i had 20 000 , did some battles got down to 15K , so what now , how to get it back to 20K? Said cant combine army's from 2 provinces once i tried to merge 2 of them . Take note , im still in the Tutorial , bout 60% trough it . Its not an easy game thats for sure . But what i find , indeed i like , i dont want stupid game i want hard core stuff . So im holding my breath , researching , thinking when it all clicks in my head im going to have a blast . I mean i love this shit , having to balance Families , loyalty , diplomacy ...shit i want more of it :)
Yeah I hate that they stopped development on it. So between wars disband the levies to get military exp and to let them recover. They should replenish while raised assuming you have enough manpower to do so. They recover quicker in your lands btw, also make sure they dont run out of supplies! Yeah you cant combine levies, or armies but you can attach them to each other so that one will follow another when you move it. Also levies and army size is based on citizen population in each province so if you dont accept the culture or have few citizen pops your levies and later armies will be small.
@@LordForwind Appreciate the help , game doesn't hold your hand but i just love having to balance families and give them offices . That is how it was , its realistic . Shit that is how it is today . Thanks for the input , ill reach later if i find something confusing . Thanks again . Much obliged .
I know this is a long video and some of it is self-explanatory but I wanted to cover everything and surprisingly I have gotten lots of questions on basic feature so I covered all of them. If I missed something let me know and I'll try to explain it in comments.
Suffice to say lol, but not necessary. We appreciate your thorough approach.
Hello again. I have a question about army comp. Returning to the Bosphorous. I have a legion with horse archers as my front line, heavy inf. as my secondary line, and heavy cav. as flankers. Well, my doubt is the viability of this comp?
Thanks in advance
Sounds pretty good but horse archers are amazing
I just want to say that cohort loyalty is actually a really useful mechanic when micromanaged. If you split up your legion among the multiple genrals allowed, you can balance the power between your armies and the loyal cohorts will not only be free they will also fight harder. I've used it to my benefit to make levy stomping legions that can fight lower quality armies twice their size with ease. Also you save a lot of your economy for investment into provinces.
How many supply trains per cohort do you use?
Just wanted to say: Your economic tips saved my last game. Thanks mate.
Glad I could help! This one is a lot longer but hopefully helpful as well! I have a better economy one coming out tomorrow
@@LordForwind Definetly - the independent operations stance helped me immensly in developing fleetpower - and loosing it to Carthage again. :D
@@LordForwind yea dude tnx for it
Same went from making 3.45 with one legion to 45.6 with 3 legions. Carthage gets fucked
Mine also 🤣🤣
Another tip for the traditions: After you unlock another culture's traditions, you can unintegrate them and still have access to the their traditions. Very useful.
Good tip!
But their traditions only applies to them no?
There is actually a reason why you might not want to take a military tradition as soon as you have 80XP, the XP that you have increases the morale of your armies, you can hover over the XP to see by how much (80 XP gives about 5% morale).
Maybe but the fight shouldnt be that close if things are going good.
You stated that there is no reason not to buy military traditions when available. But there is - If you have a lot of military experience it increases armies' morale. So if you get enough ME to buy a tradition but you're at war or about to go to war, it may be worthwhile to sit on it for awhile to get the morale boost, then buy the tradition and start re-building your ME while you're at peace.
Cool didn't know that
Great guide, the whole series of guides is actually very informative. Much needed for this game. Great game too, def under appreciated.
Ty glad to help and yes underappreciated game for sure.
I just got this game in the summer sale. Your videos are very clear, and very helpful. Liked and subscribed. Thank you!
Glad to help, I also do guides for other paradox games
Elephants were infamously bad against an enemy that knew how to handle them. They did spank the ever loving crap out of people who were utterly confused by their mere existence though. Rome got spanked a few times because of them, but, eventually, figured out to handle them almost meme tier ease.
Yeah the element of surprise is huge
TY, lots learned. Biggest bit I still don't know is what to select in 3 parts of army. Front line, second line, flanks, plus of course flank size effects? I'm defaulting to best in front, next behind, horses on flank, but don't know if this works in game as in reality!
Yeah it does, just check the power of each unit. Usually though your plan will work
17:43 i see archers in primary line but I do not see them in army composition. Why?
? you get them in levies all the time. I dont tend to put them in army since they arent as good as others!
What a great guide!
Glad you enjoyed it
Great guides just like with CK3, glad to see you playing Imperator!
Extra tip for sieges and pops I don't think you mentioned: If the AI hasn't cheated a million forts into existence, and you just need to take the province capital you can prevent many pops from dying due to individual sieges.
Hi! I wander between the paradox games and total war ones usually. I think I briefly mentioned it but its still a good tip to remind people of!
18:00 But what does flank size do? If you have more cavalry, do you want higher or lower flank size? I seem to remember, flanking units have a movement score, so if they have high movement, then you want high flank size (and vice versa)?
If your flanks win vs theirs, basically they try then try to flank the enemies and do bonus dmg to their units
Great guide! thank you🤩
Glad you enjoyed it!
I needed this. Just got the game played as Sparta and got dominated by Messenia. Obliterated. I went to war with them when they had like 7 allies. I had none. lol I'm just going to play the tutorial and play as Rome for now.
Sparta is a very tough start
Excellent guides !
Glad you like them!
Independent Operations is a awesome feature when it comes to Roleplay
or just large front operations
Hey, very good video, but I have one tip. I think you should use timestamps, especially for these longer videos.
Yeah I'm going to go back and stick them in when I have some free time.
Suffice to say this is a brilliant video. Cheers!
Ty
I love this game! Keep the videos coming!
I will! I even have a series but the start was filmed before I did 3 games so it should get better soon.
Great guide, thanks a lot!
Glad to help!
Hi man! Love your work. Btw, could you please expand on cycling supply trains? What are these, where can you catch it etc. Thanks alot)
Basically I mean you create an army with just supply trains and run them back and forth from your high supply provinces, merge them with the army then split them into a other army again and repeat. They will deliver their supplies to the army
Amazing. Thanks a lot for the video.
Glad you liked it!
amazing guide ma boy, you helped me A LOT
ty so much!!
Glad I could help!
Very useful video, thank you
Glad to help
Also a questions about engineers... when u siege a fort do they need to be in your front line or back line... or can u just have them with the legion?
Just let them be with the legion
If your Legion desecrate a holy site you are praying to, it gets a dishonor which will stay with a huge debuff.
Interesting so dont sack your own religion holy sites, got it!
You can replace that debuff with a buff by sacking a different religion holy site with the same legion
Great video as always
Appreciate that
I think legion loyalty can be really good IF the general is loyal. It only becomes a problem if they are disloyal and loyalty gives a bunch of bonuses in addition to having a lot of power base loyal to the government through the general.
The free upkeep is nice but really in the end it's usually more of a problem
how come at 18:07 u have your archers in front of your Heavies... Dont archers go behind them?
Not really, the archers skirmish before the full battle is joined
Is there a way to see the military strength of an opponent like in CK3? Or do you just have to guesstimate looking at their Pops?
guesstimate unless you go and research espionage
Great videos, helping a lot.
Glad to help!
Great video. THX.
Glad you liked it!
Suffice to say this is a good guide
ty
Hey this isn't really related per se, but at the start of the game I (Rome) keep trying to invade Etruscia, but for some reason it says I am truce breaking. Any idea why?
Also just wanted to say these guides have been extremely helpful! Thanks for the great advice!
Thanks! Rome starts with a truce with them, go south first and attack those countries first and come back when the truce is done. There is no rush to conquer them, they never get super strong unless they kill you.
excellent video dude!
Thanks
Thank you very much, for a very good guide. I can't find any game instructions/info anywhere in game, am i missing something? Is there somewhere i can see a Wiki or game guide? Also i can print a game guide, wiki for hand held reference? Thanks again for all you help!!!
Try looking online for imperator wiki, otherwise you only have to tutorial to learn the game. There is no printed guide I am aware of.
@@LordForwind Your the best, and again thank you so much!
Take too much time as Rome make the Marian Reform? What is that ''have received the Military Reform event chain''? Take too much tim?
a some point in game the event fires giving you the ability to raise as many legions as you can support
26:26 Hello! What are trigger conditions of that event?
The Roman one? No idea really, I think its a date triggered event.
Yes, it is possible. I was waiting and it triggered in 561 AVC
Suffice to say, good video.
Ty
@Lord Forwind - what is a good starting cohort makeup for uniting italy ?
as much heavy infantry as you can afford with supply trains, add archers if you want but your levies and subjects will provide those in battles
How can I increase my force limit like in eu4?
You can't like eu4, your force limit is based off the citizen population in your province. So growing the population or making another culture citizens is the only way.
so, why bother putting light infantry in a legion anyway? i'm in my rome save about to build my first legion and i don't know why i'd even bother putting any light infantry in it
There really is no reason other than they are cheap to fill out combat width or if you don't have iron
Well, I use them when I'm playing smaller nations to fill out the legions (I think Light Inf. is 3x cheaper in monthly costs than Heavy). Considering you're playing the Rome there's no point in making those
@@LordForwind thank you! So then, what do u think is the best legion set up?
So if I import elephants, they'll automatically be included in that region's levy?
No but you can put them in your legion
playing as Ivernia a Tribe how do I colonise the free lands adjacent?
8 pop of your culture then click on the province and top left colonize button will be available to click
HOW THE F DO I EMBARK MY UNITS. WHENEVER I GO TO EMBARK THEM ON A TRIREME OF MINE IT SAYS ITS TOO SMALL. NO MATTER WHAT SHIP OR HOW MANY SHIPS I HAVE AND TRY TO EMBARK THEM IT SAYS TOO SMALL
Each ship can carry only one unit at a time, so either you don't have enough or somehow it's trying to use a small fleet. Try building larger and then automating the ships to support naval transports.
@@LordForwind thanks but i got it myself i just needed to merge them instead of having different classis in the same spot👍
ah that would do it! Glad to hear you made progress!
Is there a way to change the composition of levies? Starting out playing with Rome I have a bunch of light cavalry, after a while it switched to archers, then it switched back.
no levies are fixed by pop culture, did you integrate any pops?
@@LordForwind Not sure, it was Rome proper. Started out with one supply train and a bunch of light cavalry. Never had any infantry which I found odd.
Hey, How do i know What tactic my enemy got ?
I wanna make a barbarian campaign but Im not sure How im actuelly gonna fight rome should i use hit and run on them or any tips ?
you can figure out what tactic they are using once the battle screen pops up
Does anyone know how to recruit a army before creating a legion i cant find where u recruit them and i freak out pls help🙏🙏
you cant recruit a permanent army before a legion, you can only hire mercs and raise levies
@@LordForwind omg thank you so much but if you play as tribes you can pass laws that creates legions how do you change to a republic or whatever
You take the mission to change over after you trigger the decision to start the reform, which requires 80 centralization or so.
@@LordForwind bro idk what to say thank you soo much man it helped me a lot because i just bought this game 2 days ago and idk how to play it
Feel free to ask more questions or join my discord and ask there
Since you mentioned that you kept the feudatories that Rome starts with around. Why did you not create more feudatories when you conquered Italy?
Its worth creating them, but at the same time you want land, so I just stick with what I get from start plus missions. Also only of your culture are feudatories so most of southern italy was not eligible
How do you get more of those medals for particular legions?
So they can positive or negative, based off events in the legions's history. Winning seiges or losing a series of battles get you medals. The negative ones really hurt.
Man wish I had this video when I started the Marius runs, levies are cool though. How many cultures do you usually integrate?
I’d think keeping a few just to bolster your levies but maybe relying on them is just bad for the long run and happiness is better
So far my strat is to only integrate nations when they are usually above 100 pop early game or 300 late game. I focus on conversion then culture conversion, you get a lot from religious innovtions. If you want more levies intregrate more if you want to use legion, less seems to be better.
It would be amazing if CA and Paradox could work together on a game. Three Kingdoms mechanics with Paradox mechanics.
Yeah it would be cool
@@LordForwind Absolutely. That would be the best strategy game ever.
hey, how can you make legions?
You have to change laws in order to make them.
Can't you take the all are, if you've ocupied it all? 100%?
No there is a limit to how much you can take sadly
@@LordForwind Ok, well thank you for the reply. You don't happen to know how to "colonize territory"? I get the little green flag, but then can't move people in there?
I think you just click the flag? I usually get a notification flag up top that I use.
Idk if you mentioned it here and I missed it/mentioned it another video, but how does the game count your fort levels by the max fort in the state? Is it 3 for all forts? I only ask because I have an annoying habit of not wanting to entirely gut the fort infrastructure of new land I conquer, so I end up with 6/5 forts and don't ever seem to have enough Influence to increase the cap lol
3 for all forts I believe. You're better off grabbing with the fort innovation or a tradition that increases the fort limit, cheaper and easier to get
@@LordForwind awesome, your vids have been a huge help, tysm!
Each level 1 fort counts for 3, but each extra level above 2 only counts for an additional 1 points. So a province with a lvl 1 and a lvl 2 fort would require 7 fort capacity. The fort wiki page has a bunch more about the minor things for are good for such as provincial loyalty
how/when can you get the second legion?
If you're Rome you get an event or else you need to hit the largest size county rank and change one of your laws as well and go far down the military innovation tree
@@LordForwind indeed I got the first Legion with innovation+proper law, so for the second will just have to get bigger
carthage head start against my rome just won’t go away, cost me like 600 gold for mercenaries just to get a white peace the last time they declare war. You have any tips for this situation ?
hmmm, you do out tech them given time and if you conquer southern Italy beating them is easy. Just hold them off and conquer lands when you are at peace. Try to fill out the legion and try and stackwipe them when they land.
Suffice to say that’s a repetitive use of suffice to say. That was a good video, thank you. Say suffice to say again, say suffice to say again; I dare you, I double dare you Lord Forwind, say suffice to say one more God damn time.
well basically that use of suffice to say was basically a way to say summarize a sufficient amount of times, suffice to say...
@@LordForwind 😀Yeah. Just playing with you. Did you notice that I used lines from Pulp Fiction but modified¿ This tutorial was helpful. This game is really well done. So much to do.
Great video but I gotta ask; how come it sounds like you pronounce cavalry as calvary?
Accent probably, that's the only way I know how to say it
@@LordForwind Cool:), just curious, not how I was taught to pronounce it just:). As i said, liked your video and will check out your cartage one now
Will the 2 hidden videos be available to watch later on and will there be more guides than these 5? (3 visible 2 hidden)
Yep 1 today, 1 tomorrow
If you integrate and than unintegrate the culture, are they pissed just for some time or you create epic disasters on your nation?
some time but you can create some massive issues for yourself
whats the start and end date of imperator rome?
it depends on what dating system you use.
How about a character guide? All of my characters get massive loyalty penalties due to power base. Are civil wars just inevitable?
I probably could do a loyalty guide! Civil wars are not inevitable, I did 4 games since release and had 1 civil war and winning it was easy!
@@LordForwind I'd love a loyalty guide! It's the only thing that's keeping me back from fully enjoying the game. Picked up tricks here and there, like giving researchers free hands, but it's the one area I have a hard time with.
Nice
Ty
great guides, but pls do better quality like HD or 1440p..thx :)
Im uploading at the highest quality, maybe YT is lowering it for some reason
@@LordForwind Strange, all your vids are 720p and that is not much.
Meme army comp: engineers on the frontline with flanking supply units.
That would be a meme for sure
These are okay strategies for "wide" play, but with the powerful pop system it's very easy to to play tall as well. In which theese srartegies are better for wide play than tall play. I mean your advice on supply trains is very bad. You should have a smaller army behind your main force that hold your reserves and supply trains. Then you can shuffle supply trains in and out of the main army saving spots for actual combat troops and have a proper renforcing army.
I havent had any issue with filling up combat slots yet, but I get your point.
Just got back into Imperator Rome and boy has the Marius update been a shock… and not in a good way for me.
The levy system in CK3 is very straightforward. In this game I think it needs reworked again. Playing as tribal is broken. I rely on levies (from a single province due to size). I had a general lose loyalty mid war so he took command of his own warband (you can’t consolidate your armies if they’re levies as you mentioned). After the war I disbanded the levies because I was no longer at war. The disloyal general didn’t disband because he had his own agenda (that being just random BS as per usual with disloyal general). Well because this one war general has his small contingent of my provincial levies still raised, I was unable to raise my levies for the civil war.
Edit: Also I’ve noticed consistently that the game makes me wait 24 months in order to raise levies a second time. 2 whole years. That’s ridiculous to say the least.
Another edit: I also have no idea how to feed levies because in the game I played only one of the armies had a supply train. The other levies did not.
Yeah playing with tribal nations isnt that great if you arent good at keeping tribal leaders happy. The 2 years on levies is due to tradition exploits. Feeding levies is difficult, you have to constantly be moving them back to your lands to resupply.
Sadly its unlikely the game will ever be reworked since its a dead game basically!
I love History ,
That is why i tried this game , but Jesus Chrsit , once i commenced battle and declared war , i didnt know whats going on . Everyone running around i dont know who i who , and im good at history . That is why im watching this .
yeah it can be confusing, remember you can automate armies!
@@LordForwind yeah , didnt know , found out . Didnt know how to conquer a province once i won it in war , figure you have to do it by diplomacy >
Now i dont know what to do with depleted army of Levies , like i had 20 000 , did some battles got down to 15K , so what now , how to get it back to 20K?
Said cant combine army's from 2 provinces once i tried to merge 2 of them .
Take note , im still in the Tutorial , bout 60% trough it .
Its not an easy game thats for sure .
But what i find , indeed i like , i dont want stupid game i want hard core stuff .
So im holding my breath , researching , thinking when it all clicks in my head im going to have a blast .
I mean i love this shit , having to balance Families , loyalty , diplomacy ...shit i want more of it :)
Yeah I hate that they stopped development on it. So between wars disband the levies to get military exp and to let them recover. They should replenish while raised assuming you have enough manpower to do so. They recover quicker in your lands btw, also make sure they dont run out of supplies! Yeah you cant combine levies, or armies but you can attach them to each other so that one will follow another when you move it. Also levies and army size is based on citizen population in each province so if you dont accept the culture or have few citizen pops your levies and later armies will be small.
@@LordForwind Appreciate the help , game doesn't hold your hand but i just love having to balance families and give them offices . That is how it was , its realistic . Shit that is how it is today .
Thanks for the input , ill reach later if i find something confusing .
Thanks again .
Much obliged .
16:50 its pronounced " fay laanks"
yep I keep forgetting, thanks
@@LordForwind np ! i legit thought you were talking about a detergent before i realised you meant the greek pike formation lmao
I swear this game is so much harder to get a hang of than CK3 and stellaris, its suffice to say LOL.....
It's not really, Victoria 2 and eu4 are trickier, but it's very different than other paradox gamea
@@LordForwind It's suffice to say, I'll take your word for it. LOL