"Lets pick some Roman names for our new Empire" Proceeds to pick Ptolemy, a Greek man born in Egypt, and Syracuse, a Greek city in Sicily. You do you Darren, you keep doing you.
Who knows. Maybe in Darren's timeline, the West fell and the Byzantines re-built the empire and brought with them a large amount of Greek language and culture all around the world :P
+Manualatice Haha well in my head the Roman Empire own the entire world right, so they own cities such as Syracuse, Alexandria etc. As for Ptolemy, he was a known astronomer and mathematician so it made sense for Science ship :P Just thought I'd show my workings!
The part of this that bothers me isn't the Greek names in a Roman Empire seeing as both Plotemy and Syracuse where a part of the Roman Empire. Now what gets to me is Classis I Terra Concors. I know enough latin to know that most likely translates into Class 1 Land Agreement given that Classis roughly translates as class though I do believe fleets and squads where refered to as Classis, I is a well known Roman Numeral for 1, Terra is Earth or land, and a concors is an agreement.
i've never seen such deep space-colonising build-your-empire-in-space strategy with that level of visual details. First encounter with alien life, first colony, first agreement with xenos... Oh i am so excited! Don't stop this series, prove virtue of the Roman Empire on a space scale!
This is probably my favourite 'Let's Play' of Stellaris so far. You're extremely methodical in how you proceed through the game, but do not over-think situations or rush around and miss things. Really looking forward to watching the rest of this campaign, and can't wait to get the game tomorrow (Monday the 9th).
HA! Methodical? You should watch Quill18. Now thats what I call let's play. With this vid I was almost certain I was going to eat my keyboard out of frustration. Cheers!
Does anybody else feel a bit bad for the devs of other 4X titles coming out? Paradox have gone and raised the bar something fierce with this game. The only thing I can think of that I'd like to see would be a GalCiv2 style ship editor for completely custom ships. Please do continue this LP, Darren. As much as I enjoy watching the Blorg streams, it's nice sometimes not to hear the word 'friend' quite so often :D
for a more milkyway like galaxy, you pick 2 arms not because the milkyway only has 2 arms (it has 4+) but because the center of the milkyway isn't a circle, it's a ''bar'' which in this game is only generated on the 2 spiral arm maps.
Shennyr played Byzantium in EU4 and made Rome great again. It's up to you to Make Universe Great Again. I ADORE the roleplaying element, the reading of every single message. Subscribed!
I was looking for a Stellaris Let's Play and i end up here,nice to meet you sir, i subscribed to acompany you campaign. A sugestion for your fist colony : Soror Gemina,twin Sister in Latin,its a fertile continental world like Terra so there you go :3
The games greatest strength is the fact you can role play like hell with so many little details. I am playing a game as Mollusks (randomed) fanatically xenophobic materialists with warp engines and missiles, direct democracy which i upgraded to subconscious consensus. So far I have purged weaker species and vasseled the stronger ones with biome's i could not inhabit only 3 remain and my people aggressively study every primitive xeno they can find. So far only two fallen empires found and both are fanatically xenophobic fortifying my peoples outlook of their species vs all. So far I am actually scared since well I have no factions my people are happy and my fleets surpass all, I am waiting for the other boot to drop. But my tech is ahead my fleets are balanced and larger rarely losing ships in expeditions and my population is the largest with the most systems owned inhabited even terraformed about 10 worlds. I am about to with my vassals overthrow a fallen empire and take their lush lands. My people are happy and civil and celebrate the purity of their species but are so xenophobic we do not even get close to the aliens we have our droids do that often looking down a rifle or bombarding from orbit. If you surrender we vassal you but if you are insignificant or resist greatly we purge you for you would do the same to us. We also after decades of studying innumerable xenos we have found the secrets of synthetic thought programming which lead to even further advancements of the mind being able to assert our will in the xeno mind. While we would never dream of such things being done to our people we will happily do what we must to the xeno to safeguard our own and guarantee our survival. Behind the eyes of a xeno is a mystery so we found out how to place there what suits us. So far i am 160 years into space and the role playing is the best. No crisis yet but to be fair i have been suppressing the galaxy at large so it explains to a point.
I've been interested in this game since i heard about it, this is the first gameplay I have sat down and watched thanks to this being my favourite total war channel. Keep them coming, I do enjoy let's plays. I've noticed you maintain a good pace while playing and are always moving forward while commentating, perhaps streaming has helped you learn. It shows, you have higher quality videos and I look forward to watching your professional let's plays.
One thing about influence that many people don't know is that frontier outposts drain your influence, when you place one it costs 200 (most people already know this) but it will drain your influence monthly gain by 1. once you have a colony in a system that has a frontier outpost the outpost is no longer needed because the planet itself will generate your borders, so when you colonize a planet inside a frontier outposts range "dispan" the frontier outpost and you will get back your monthly influence.
+DarrenTotalWar You should name the Alpha Centauri system "Reach" you know in honor to those that have fallen when those beast that call themselves "The Covenant" came and burnt it to the ground!
Great video man. I've had the same Idea since I first saw the trailer of the game. Awesome! Though I would have called it "Imperium Romanum" to be more latin and maybe change the species from Humans to Homo sapiens :D Oh and logically the first colony, probably on Alpha Centauri should be named Terra Nova.
All right, Darren, don't forget: science is crucial, diplomacy is potentially extremely important, and wars are almost pointless before you can land armies. terra is correct in Latin. If you have questions ask. Scipio, Quintus, sextus, primus, Vecellium, Caligula, catullus, livius
+DarrenTotalWar Actually, nevermind, it seems that you can create armies straight away. ignore me. I think a Scipio would be cool, even if you have used Publius
Changes name from "Alacrity" to "Trireme" because "At least I can pronounce it." Mispronounces Trireme. *Facepalm* Seriously though, this game looks to be amazing and I have been enjoying your let's play, I enjoy the way you react to things and will probably continue watching this series even after I get Stellaris.
Ptolemy and Syracuse are Macedonian and Greek respectively lol. But I really think I may get this game. By the way, your Empire battle in the underways was dope! I really liked it!!
+Sadistic Spece Marine I tried to pick Sins up again to see if it could tide me over until Stellaris drops in price a bit. Sins is so militaristic though. It's a constant race to get the biggest best military fleet before the other guys. Diplomacy is okay, but the AI almost always stabs you in the back with little to no warning.
I find one good way to get influence is to just vassilize factions. They give you one extra influence for every vassal which does add up if your going around wiping out 'pathetic' factions with one 8k stack.
possible Renames for research ship(if you want to): Apollo, Minerva, or Providentia (goddess). Also the Romans would name their ships after their Gods and Goddesses, geographical maritime features like Rhenus or Oceanus, concepts such as harmony, loyalty, victory, or after important events like "Dacia"(I got this from Wikipedia) Really enjoying this series so far.
DarrenTotalWar Well you are one of the very few getting hands on action, which is great. You have done good, since there are other far larger TW UA-camrs who havent got it and post your footage. This game looks awesome aswell, im sure ill buy it, after watching this vid for 26 min hehe
I know that if you wanted to, you could mod in a Roman name list that the game will use. I don't know where it is in the files, but there is information about it on the Paradox forums, even a tool to help create it. Although, I don't know if you can swap your current name list for a new one.
1.0.3 hotfix made optimization better. weird stutters with zooming in/out of systems/units .. he plays with 600 stars... if u want t know what real stutter is do a 40k military power fleet battle and see what ur fps does lmao... :D had literally more lag than eve online huge blobs... turn down AA to 4x instead of 8x.. improved a bit.. ur using ur overview/outliner most of the time after the inital awe of the game anyway....
Funny, Rita Rossi and Carmela Marcuzzi are actually italian names. Can't believe they were replaced with latin-ish ones xD I believe that Earth (Terra in Italian) is probably Orbs in latin (in fact late roman emperors were given the title of "restitutor orbis"). It is funny to see how the roman empire is so appreciated :D Cheers from Mediolanum ;)
"Lets pick some Roman names for our new Empire"
Proceeds to pick Ptolemy, a Greek man born in Egypt, and Syracuse, a Greek city in Sicily.
You do you Darren, you keep doing you.
Who knows. Maybe in Darren's timeline, the West fell and the Byzantines re-built the empire and brought with them a large amount of Greek language and culture all around the world :P
+Manualatice the romans adored the greeks...and all these cities were part of the empire
+Manualatice Haha well in my head the Roman Empire own the entire world right, so they own cities such as Syracuse, Alexandria etc.
As for Ptolemy, he was a known astronomer and mathematician so it made sense for Science ship :P
Just thought I'd show my workings!
+Manualatice he says its an alternate history where the roman empire never fell... and considering that the romans conquered both of those places.
The part of this that bothers me isn't the Greek names in a Roman Empire seeing as both Plotemy and Syracuse where a part of the Roman Empire. Now what gets to me is Classis I Terra Concors. I know enough latin to know that most likely translates into Class 1 Land Agreement given that Classis roughly translates as class though I do believe fleets and squads where refered to as Classis, I is a well known Roman Numeral for 1, Terra is Earth or land, and a concors is an agreement.
"We are Roman, We will expand" -DarrenTotalWar
once you go Paradox, you never go back.
+Shnirfel Seems so
Name suggestion: Roman McRomanface
+MultiAntons I see what you did there...
Please name someone or some ship Bickus Dickus.
FUCKING THIS!
Also: Incontinentia Buttocks.
Hernando Garibaldi
''He has a wife you know..'' xD
And of course the legendary Maximus Naughtius!
Oh fuck i remember that ahhh that was true comedy and i love also damn you now i'll be watching that a million times
General Wolf
You're welcome! ;D
i've never seen such deep space-colonising build-your-empire-in-space strategy with that level of visual details. First encounter with alien life, first colony, first agreement with xenos... Oh i am so excited! Don't stop this series, prove virtue of the Roman Empire on a space scale!
well if you want incredible depth look up Aurora 4x.
This is probably my favourite 'Let's Play' of Stellaris so far. You're extremely methodical in how you proceed through the game, but do not over-think situations or rush around and miss things. Really looking forward to watching the rest of this campaign, and can't wait to get the game tomorrow (Monday the 9th).
HA! Methodical? You should watch Quill18. Now thats what I call let's play. With this vid I was almost certain I was going to eat my keyboard out of frustration. Cheers!
Does anybody else feel a bit bad for the devs of other 4X titles coming out? Paradox have gone and raised the bar something fierce with this game. The only thing I can think of that I'd like to see would be a GalCiv2 style ship editor for completely custom ships.
Please do continue this LP, Darren. As much as I enjoy watching the Blorg streams, it's nice sometimes not to hear the word 'friend' quite so often :D
Damn, u are such a roleplayer! I loved! I thought I was the only one with cockroaches in my head :)
for a more milkyway like galaxy, you pick 2 arms
not because the milkyway only has 2 arms (it has 4+) but because the center of the milkyway isn't a circle, it's a ''bar''
which in this game is only generated on the 2 spiral arm maps.
Love Rome and love role-playing +1 sub.
hey again lol
Atomic Jesus What?
Great video, looking forward to following your space Roman Empire on their adventures.
Extremely happy to see you play this!
+FeelsBadMan Thanks! I'm happy to be playing it :P
Shennyr played Byzantium in EU4 and made Rome great again. It's up to you to Make Universe Great Again. I ADORE the roleplaying element, the reading of every single message. Subscribed!
I was looking for a Stellaris Let's Play and i end up here,nice to meet you sir, i subscribed to acompany you campaign.
A sugestion for your fist colony : Soror Gemina,twin Sister in Latin,its a fertile continental world like Terra so there you go :3
+Pedro Biondi watch surrelbeliefs
I suggest Quill18 and EnterElysium as UA-camrs to watch play Stellaris
"trust me, we are roman, and we will expand" haha i love it. subbed
The games greatest strength is the fact you can role play like hell with so many little details. I am playing a game as Mollusks (randomed) fanatically xenophobic materialists with warp engines and missiles, direct democracy which i upgraded to subconscious consensus. So far I have purged weaker species and vasseled the stronger ones with biome's i could not inhabit only 3 remain and my people aggressively study every primitive xeno they can find. So far only two fallen empires found and both are fanatically xenophobic fortifying my peoples outlook of their species vs all. So far I am actually scared since well I have no factions my people are happy and my fleets surpass all, I am waiting for the other boot to drop. But my tech is ahead my fleets are balanced and larger rarely losing ships in expeditions and my population is the largest with the most systems owned inhabited even terraformed about 10 worlds. I am about to with my vassals overthrow a fallen empire and take their lush lands. My people are happy and civil and celebrate the purity of their species but are so xenophobic we do not even get close to the aliens we have our droids do that often looking down a rifle or bombarding from orbit. If you surrender we vassal you but if you are insignificant or resist greatly we purge you for you would do the same to us. We also after decades of studying innumerable xenos we have found the secrets of synthetic thought programming which lead to even further advancements of the mind being able to assert our will in the xeno mind. While we would never dream of such things being done to our people we will happily do what we must to the xeno to safeguard our own and guarantee our survival. Behind the eyes of a xeno is a mystery so we found out how to place there what suits us. So far i am 160 years into space and the role playing is the best. No crisis yet but to be fair i have been suppressing the galaxy at large so it explains to a point.
Darren, thanks for these! I ended up getting the game based upon this walk through. So thanks! Too many hours spent on it so far... IT can be tricky!
I've subscribed just for this campaign
+Tristan Ward Coombe Nice, hope you enjoy it!
+DarrenTotalWar how do you win the game
+DarrenTotalWar subbed, you should have more subs.
Nice Video you have defiantly gained a subscriber
I am always in the market for more Paradox Let's Plays so I am all for more of this.
I've been interested in this game since i heard about it, this is the first gameplay I have sat down and watched thanks to this being my favourite total war channel. Keep them coming, I do enjoy let's plays. I've noticed you maintain a good pace while playing and are always moving forward while commentating, perhaps streaming has helped you learn. It shows, you have higher quality videos and I look forward to watching your professional let's plays.
I'm glad I found this Lp!. This is a great start. :) You should also change the planet names to Roman names when you start conquering.
I enjoyed this Darren, if this is your first Let's Play, you should definitely consider doing more.
Is that hamster called "Boo"?
Cannot wait for release! A few more days!!
+Rango Yeah can't wait to play some MP.
Greetings from the future, the game is great.
One thing about influence that many people don't know is that frontier outposts drain your influence, when you place one it costs 200 (most people already know this) but it will drain your influence monthly gain by 1. once you have a colony in a system that has a frontier outpost the outpost is no longer needed because the planet itself will generate your borders, so when you colonize a planet inside a frontier outposts range "dispan" the frontier outpost and you will get back your monthly influence.
ALLLLL ABOARD THE HYPE-RDRIVE SPACESHIP! ZOOOOM ZOOM!
Cheers for this Let's Play Darren! Cannot wait to see more.
+Vico Taco Thanks, think I'll upload an ep every day.
I love how you read each pop up. Great video!
That galaxy map looks so so pretty
This is nice for someone like me who keeps missing streams to watch you play video games.
+Captain Ralo Afro Great to hear
This is amazing. Subscribed just to watch this campaign. Keep it up!
Really interesting game. And well done on the lets play ;)
Love how fast you work its so amusing to watch and its not insanely long videos like no more than an hour a vid is perfect
please keep the let's play going! this game looks super awesome and I'll probably buy it if it looks good from your lets play.
great
when i buy this i will start making warhammer 40k faction
this will get SOOOOOOOO MUCH FUN
+Emilio Garcia Carrillo theres already a 40K mod for the game
I know
i am goimg to give these ships roman names.... Ptolomy..................
ALL of them ptolomy ;)
+Rastasolid yes
+Keizer Van Enerc lol
+Keizer Van Enerc Shite, i just commented the same 1 week late!
+Keizer Van Enerc He also misspelled it. It should be "Ptolemy"
I liked this! I hope you continue on this series. May is going to be a good month for strategy game fans!
+Beltims Gaming fans in general! Uncharted 4 -
I can't wait to play this game! The hype is real!
Paradox continues to impress me with their good games and I hope to get this game soon.
this was fun and informative. I'm looking forward to a conquest. I'd like to see how it handles conflict on multiple fronts.
nice lets play, subscribed
Seemingly another great game by Paradox, I must see to getting my hands on a copy after release.
'Gonna look forward to more of this series!
Really cool gameplay! I want more my good sir! Also, Roman names on characters should have 3 names, cause the third one is their nick name!
Nice commentary. Great to see the new game in action.
Quintus Flavius
Sextus Kaeso
+Derek Tai They will be in the game sir.
+DarrenTotalWar
Biggus Dickus
Naughtius Maximus
Incontinentia Buttocks
+DarrenTotalWar You should name the Alpha Centauri system "Reach" you know in honor to those that have fallen when those beast that call themselves "The Covenant" came and burnt it to the ground!
*****
Long Live Humanity! Long Live the UNSC!
+Derek Tai these are pretty cool names: Biggus dickus, naugtius maximus.
*names one Quinctilius Varus*
*gets ambushed by "allies"*
Awesome!
please do a full let's play it's fun watching you play this.
+William Barrett Thanks will keep it going as long as a decent amount are watching.
+DarrenTotalWar another thing will there be a warhammer total war let's play?
This game looks like a lot of great fun!!
Like this a lot, keep the episodes coming.
+Fabian Danielsson 1 a day :D
Great video man. I've had the same Idea since I first saw the trailer of the game. Awesome! Though I would have called it "Imperium Romanum" to be more latin and maybe change the species from Humans to Homo sapiens :D
Oh and logically the first colony, probably on Alpha Centauri should be named Terra Nova.
+RTWfan1234 Good idea with Terra Nova! Roman Empire is a bit more catchy in the title so I'll keep that same, but I can change the race name now!
An enjoyable play through. Another game I need to consider investing in... after TW Warhammer of course. Looks fun.
All right, Darren, don't forget: science is crucial, diplomacy is potentially extremely important, and wars are almost pointless before you can land armies. terra is correct in Latin. If you have questions ask. Scipio, Quintus, sextus, primus, Vecellium, Caligula, catullus, livius
+DarkVadekGaming I think you have access to landing armies pretty early on. But thanks!
+DarrenTotalWar Actually, nevermind, it seems that you can create armies straight away. ignore me. I think a Scipio would be cool, even if you have used Publius
Darren, I reeeeally like your content 😄
+Oliver Meyer I reeeeally like your comment. Thanks!
"..our little borders here, I'm gonna do WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT"
Comedy gold.
Changes name from "Alacrity" to "Trireme" because "At least I can pronounce it." Mispronounces Trireme.
*Facepalm*
Seriously though, this game looks to be amazing and I have been enjoying your let's play, I enjoy the way you react to things and will probably continue watching this series even after I get Stellaris.
Great gameplay. I really enjoy it!
I like your LP style my friend, so you have this old hippies sub now. Keep up the great work. :-)
It's better to have more science ships early. Great episode!
nice to see this on the channel :)
Ptolemy and Syracuse are Macedonian and Greek respectively lol. But I really think I may get this game. By the way, your Empire battle in the underways was dope! I really liked it!!
Remember to colonise as much as possible. Rivalling factions is only gangrenous when they have a significantly larger fleet then you.
"Lets give them Roman names!"
>First two names are Greek
I couldn't stop laughing
Just pre ordered after watching this!
a·lac·ri·ty , sorry some of my keyboard isn't working, but great video series.
reminds me of sins of a solar empire and i had goods times with that ill definetly buy this.
+Sadistic Spece Marine I tried to pick Sins up again to see if it could tide me over until Stellaris drops in price a bit. Sins is so militaristic though. It's a constant race to get the biggest best military fleet before the other guys. Diplomacy is okay, but the AI almost always stabs you in the back with little to no warning.
I find one good way to get influence is to just vassilize factions. They give you one extra influence for every vassal which does add up if your going around wiping out 'pathetic' factions with one 8k stack.
darren name your science ship "Terra incognita" I think it would be a cool name. since you are exploring with it. :D
possible Renames for research ship(if you want to): Apollo, Minerva, or Providentia (goddess). Also the Romans would name their ships after their Gods and Goddesses, geographical maritime features like Rhenus or Oceanus, concepts such as harmony, loyalty, victory, or after important events like "Dacia"(I got this from Wikipedia) Really enjoying this series so far.
For someone who has never done a lets play, you're great! Cant believe you've never done one, do some more! If you can anyway haha
Love this
+Blogman66 Thanks, it's great!
Great video and channel man, new sub here =)
Good move with the TW WH vids, was how i found your channel ;)
+Tobiasm1 Thanks! Glad you like this too. Won't have Warhammer again for a week maybe so this will fill the time :P
DarrenTotalWar Well you are one of the very few getting hands on action, which is great. You have done good, since there are other far larger TW UA-camrs who havent got it and post your footage.
This game looks awesome aswell, im sure ill buy it, after watching this vid for 26 min hehe
I love this game.
Your Navy's motto has to be,
Per Caleum Per Terram
can't read simple words, one shots Qopinjaxi. Subbed.
Great info, thanks!
Jupiter's Red Spot is set to disappear within a generation. Probably around 2030, as the storm slows down.
Source?
wow, really wow, and i'm italian too, it's just wow
....No Pluto? ; __ ;
You disappoint me Paradox! xP
im definitely going to roleplay as the imperium of man when i get this :D
+Lukes adventure on the internet Who will lead your country? High lords of Terra? Emperor protects:)
I hate to nitpick, but as a Roman it is pronounced "Centauree" and not "Centaureye".
+Hank Snow yes OMG THIS!!
ur correct
More like 'ken-tow-ree'
"As a roman"
I know that if you wanted to, you could mod in a Roman name list that the game will use. I don't know where it is in the files, but there is information about it on the Paradox forums, even a tool to help create it. Although, I don't know if you can swap your current name list for a new one.
your performance is so much better then mine. i get a lot of stuterering when unpaused.
1.0.3 hotfix made optimization better. weird stutters with zooming in/out of systems/units .. he plays with 600 stars... if u want t know what real stutter is do a 40k military power fleet battle and see what ur fps does lmao... :D had literally more lag than eve online huge blobs... turn down AA to 4x instead of 8x.. improved a bit.. ur using ur overview/outliner most of the time after the inital awe of the game anyway....
Imperium Romanum inuictum! Roman Empire is invincible!
Subbed to this. Looking forward to ur future content
Funny, Rita Rossi and Carmela Marcuzzi are actually italian names. Can't believe they were replaced with latin-ish ones xD
I believe that Earth (Terra in Italian) is probably Orbs in latin (in fact late roman emperors were given the title of "restitutor orbis").
It is funny to see how the roman empire is so appreciated :D
Cheers from Mediolanum ;)
You'd think earth would start with slug throwers, or maybe nukes
I CAN PLAY ROMANS IN SPACE! KK I'm buying this.
I'm surprised "throw alien creatures into the Colosseum" isn't an option... XD
I really like this game.
this looks like spore space age done right and even better...
Thank you
this game look sooo cool im going to buy it when i get my new comp my current one is breaking is crashes alot cant wait for my new one
Love it.
Damn you had a pretty sick start in sol another let's player I watch had maybe only 4 credit income in the whole sol system
Credit is quite irrelevant til midgame
as in that it total
Hyped 👍🏻👏🏻
good series!
Cool idea the Roman Empire will never Fall!.......again at least haha :)
As a fanatic militarist, you want to stay out of alliances.
NAME; for genius scientist Cranius Maximus