A little tip for best deity of war: If you play as epirus and play its missions, one mission gives you a quest for conquering troy area and returning back the achilles tomb after that you can form an achilles cult and then you would be able to worship him as a deity of war which gives you a moral as a passive and discipline bonus which its the best one for me
When you mentioned the stability for tall as the tuistic you might have forgotten that all tuistic nations are migrantory tribes, and migrantory tribes use stability as their main currency for converting, assimilating and building armies of vast quantities as well as settling new lands. Also, the nocb war cost is for migrations, you start the game, nocb rome, all your armies don't need military access so you settle rome, uproot the entire population and do the same to egypt or something, then you have a massive migration that you can aim at wherever you wish to settle permanently. If you get less of a stability hit, you can nocb people faster. Edit: I got a game as tyrgatae and i invaded the bosporans and my armies went from 20 000 to around a 100 000, and the best part is they can settle anywhere i wish.
@@LordForwind thats true, but all you need is to get to one of their fringe territories, settle it and you double that army. Eventually the sheer amount of troops you can field from casually occupying their outlying territories should overwhelm the romans.
I played a game as the sarmatians where I migrated all of my land to Frisia and blobed a bit before becoming a monarchy and modernizing. I got the Noble happiness from the Sarmatians and the Commerce and slave output from the Germans. I love how you can mix and match to fit into the way you wanna play
If you play tall, you don’t actually need research modifiers, it’s so easy to max out, unless you integrate some culture which outnumbers your pops. Because only research efficiency affects your research speed. And it’s some ratio of research points to your number of integrated pops. All you need is 1 city per province with basic buildings from bottom row (top row seems like a waste unless you go for really tall metropolis city) and somewhat happy pops
I thought the research modifier apply directly to the speed/month, not the overall efficiency. I've noticed a boost when activating one even though I was at max efficiency already. Maybe there are a few types?
54:05 Actually, you can get malus from sacking a holy site only of your state religion as the Wiki says. If you sack the site not of your religion, you can get a bonus.
I have a question about religious relics, I've seen some providing cultural happiness but it does not say if it applies throughout the empire. Was wondering if does stack with relics that are not part of your pantheon, but within your empire?
Ty! It took forever to make and edit. They needed to be different than the other religions for being monotheistic and they just gave them the default deified bonuses
"If you're playing wide" There's absolutely zero benefit of playing "tall" because you either play small or big, tall vs wide isn't a choice. Your capital region gets the vast majority of its population from migration and from captured slaves, so you either conquer all the time or you remain small. The balancing act comes from being able to assimilate the pops and keeping your tech going as you do so, and also keep your money coming in. Also keeping your characters loyal. Money = power, if you're losing a war but have tons of money, you can just hire a bunch of mercs to bust you out. Money also lets you build wonders which give you ridiculous bonuses, like better stats for your characters, faster tech, faster assimilation, increased stability etcetera etcetera. Pop growth is essentially worthless unless you have a MASSIVE land area, that 0.04% per month equals roughly about one pop per region per 200 years, so that's essentially worthless unless you have a MASSIVE empire. It's quite good once you begin to have about 500 or so areas, and the more you have the better it gets, but there's no playing "tall" with pop growth modifiers.
Well you can combine growth modifiers, I was getting .8 a month as judea yesterday building granaries and the growth innovations and it's possible not as fun but possible
@@LordForwind granaries (and base growth) form the most of that growth and they come at the expense of actually utilizing your pops. You CAN utilize granaries easier as a large nation though, as you can build specialized provinces where there's one city with tons of granaries to get a good growth for the province and all other regions contain those migration buildings to funnel all those pops out of the province. Also build docks. But no, there's no benefit in "playing tall", you're just worse off than you would be if you expanded. The more you expand, the taller your capital grows.
Don't discount the Iberic religion! I love using it, especially when deifying the pop conversion god! Combine that with a religious conversion law and you have a fantastic conversion rate! Plus, the slave output god, when deified, you can get a free provincial investment every 5 years! The Iberic religion is basically the weaker version of the Buddhist religion in terms of conversion speed, but still good.
This prob isnt the right video to ask on but do you think you can explain how pops work in your army? like ive seen regions you just take over have 4 pops in lets say levis for example. i know that more integrated pops means more troops but is there like some equation or someway to tell how many troops you might get per pop or based on how many pops you have? as far as i know its just more pops more army but i wanna know the specifics.
The number of troops you can raise is based off of the number of nobles and citizens integrated in the region. I dont know the exact number because every nation has modifiers that affect levy and legion sizes.
get over 50% non-slaves pops of the new religion in your capital, I think at that point a decision with more details appears. If you want more details start a game as Egypt because they almost have needed amount for Kemetic
There is a actually one jain nation landlocked in the south of india, not very big at all and has pops believing in all three eastern religions which weakens omens. I'm guessing that they recently added them or changed their religion as I have searched india for jain nations before 2.0 and never found one.
For the Jewish religion they should add the angels especially the ones with names and then maybe add their one God for all the slots if they want to decide to choose Yahweh
only option is the invictus mod that I know of, but its doesnt changed too much of the base game. I believe Judaism is untouched since its a minor religion in game.
A little tip for best deity of war:
If you play as epirus and play its missions, one mission gives you a quest for conquering troy area and returning back the achilles tomb after that you can form an achilles cult and then you would be able to worship him as a deity of war which gives you a moral as a passive and discipline bonus which its the best one for me
That is pretty powerful
I just got into Imperator right after the 2.0 update and your videos have been extremely helpful. I always learn more than what I was looking for
Glad I could help!
you get deities of different pantheons by owning their holy sites
yep!
When you mentioned the stability for tall as the tuistic you might have forgotten that all tuistic nations are migrantory tribes, and migrantory tribes use stability as their main currency for converting, assimilating and building armies of vast quantities as well as settling new lands. Also, the nocb war cost is for migrations, you start the game, nocb rome, all your armies don't need military access so you settle rome, uproot the entire population and do the same to egypt or something, then you have a massive migration that you can aim at wherever you wish to settle permanently. If you get less of a stability hit, you can nocb people faster.
Edit: I got a game as tyrgatae and i invaded the bosporans and my armies went from 20 000 to around a 100 000, and the best part is they can settle anywhere i wish.
You have to beat rome though and that's not super easy
@@LordForwind thats true, but all you need is to get to one of their fringe territories, settle it and you double that army. Eventually the sheer amount of troops you can field from casually occupying their outlying territories should overwhelm the romans.
Yes! Continue with this series please, so helpfull.
Will do!
I played a game as the sarmatians where I migrated all of my land to Frisia and blobed a bit before becoming a monarchy and modernizing. I got the Noble happiness from the Sarmatians and the Commerce and slave output from the Germans. I love how you can mix and match to fit into the way you wanna play
yeah the mix and match is very nice
You can instantly switch to Khaldic as Armenia at the start of the game in a decision to check it out
cool!
Thanks! Have been looking forward to this one!
Hope you like it!
Really like all the guides!
Glad to hear it!
If you play tall, you don’t actually need research modifiers, it’s so easy to max out, unless you integrate some culture which outnumbers your pops. Because only research efficiency affects your research speed. And it’s some ratio of research points to your number of integrated pops. All you need is 1 city per province with basic buildings from bottom row (top row seems like a waste unless you go for really tall metropolis city) and somewhat happy pops
Do you think granary worth it for pop growth(food capacity)
happiness is super important!
@@alianilciftci6850 idk pops grow really slow. If you do build them, make sure to build them in low populated cities you don't care to develop.
I thought the research modifier apply directly to the speed/month, not the overall efficiency. I've noticed a boost when activating one even though I was at max efficiency already. Maybe there are a few types?
@@Petrovich2049 invictus adds some more food mechanics... vanilla food just isn´t important.
54:05 Actually, you can get malus from sacking a holy site only of your state religion as the Wiki says. If you sack the site not of your religion, you can get a bonus.
Cool, never bothered to do so
I have a question about religious relics, I've seen some providing cultural happiness but it does not say if it applies throughout the empire. Was wondering if does stack with relics that are not part of your pantheon, but within your empire?
it only applies locally so not it does not stack
Great guide but some timestamps would be nice next time, now I had to watch a large part of this video to learn what I wanted.
Maybe, timestamps are tricky to do and I don't personally see the point of them but each to their own.
Exhaustive video ! Much respect. And wth why is Judea so insanely powerful ?
Ty! It took forever to make and edit. They needed to be different than the other religions for being monotheistic and they just gave them the default deified bonuses
"If you're playing wide"
There's absolutely zero benefit of playing "tall" because you either play small or big, tall vs wide isn't a choice. Your capital region gets the vast majority of its population from migration and from captured slaves, so you either conquer all the time or you remain small. The balancing act comes from being able to assimilate the pops and keeping your tech going as you do so, and also keep your money coming in. Also keeping your characters loyal. Money = power, if you're losing a war but have tons of money, you can just hire a bunch of mercs to bust you out. Money also lets you build wonders which give you ridiculous bonuses, like better stats for your characters, faster tech, faster assimilation, increased stability etcetera etcetera. Pop growth is essentially worthless unless you have a MASSIVE land area, that 0.04% per month equals roughly about one pop per region per 200 years, so that's essentially worthless unless you have a MASSIVE empire. It's quite good once you begin to have about 500 or so areas, and the more you have the better it gets, but there's no playing "tall" with pop growth modifiers.
Well you can combine growth modifiers, I was getting .8 a month as judea yesterday building granaries and the growth innovations and it's possible not as fun but possible
@@LordForwind granaries (and base growth) form the most of that growth and they come at the expense of actually utilizing your pops. You CAN utilize granaries easier as a large nation though, as you can build specialized provinces where there's one city with tons of granaries to get a good growth for the province and all other regions contain those migration buildings to funnel all those pops out of the province. Also build docks. But no, there's no benefit in "playing tall", you're just worse off than you would be if you expanded. The more you expand, the taller your capital grows.
Right now on ashokas pillas, Unified India and now the decision to convert to buddhism Is gone, can someone help me?
You have to convert at the beginning.... Otherwise you have to get more of those pops than Hindu pops
@@LordForwind oh okay, cause it was available for nearly 170years and now it doesnt even show up... ty tho
Great video, thanks!
I really want to know if there's any reason to change the army composition and why.
you dont want light infantry or light cav basically, everything else is good
@@LordForwind Isn't light cavalry good on the flanks?
Don't discount the Iberic religion! I love using it, especially when deifying the pop conversion god! Combine that with a religious conversion law and you have a fantastic conversion rate! Plus, the slave output god, when deified, you can get a free provincial investment every 5 years! The Iberic religion is basically the weaker version of the Buddhist religion in terms of conversion speed, but still good.
Interesting, just goes to show I don't know all the details, the sheer amount of religious stuff is crazy
This prob isnt the right video to ask on but do you think you can explain how pops work in your army? like ive seen regions you just take over have 4 pops in lets say levis for example. i know that more integrated pops means more troops but is there like some equation or someway to tell how many troops you might get per pop or based on how many pops you have? as far as i know its just more pops more army but i wanna know the specifics.
The number of troops you can raise is based off of the number of nobles and citizens integrated in the region. I dont know the exact number because every nation has modifiers that affect levy and legion sizes.
Thanks for the video. Can please some explain how I can change the state religion of a country... playing as Atigonids and its about 40%/40%
get over 50% non-slaves pops of the new religion in your capital, I think at that point a decision with more details appears. If you want more details start a game as Egypt because they almost have needed amount for Kemetic
@@LordForwind Thank you very much, sir!
There is a actually one jain nation landlocked in the south of india, not very big at all and has pops believing in all three eastern religions which weakens omens. I'm guessing that they recently added them or changed their religion as I have searched india for jain nations before 2.0 and never found one.
huh interesting
What about the Kemetic?
did I miss them? They are okay but not amazing
For the Jewish religion they should add the angels especially the ones with names and then maybe add their one God for all the slots if they want to decide to choose Yahweh
if they ever touch the game again that might be a nice change but unlikely
@@LordForwind is there maybe a mod that does that to imperator Rome
only option is the invictus mod that I know of, but its doesnt changed too much of the base game. I believe Judaism is untouched since its a minor religion in game.
I did a timestamp comment yesterday...now its gone...
Hmm didn't see it and I check basically everything. Unless it had swearing or was inappropriate, it should be there, unless it didn't get through?
@@LordForwind bummer...I saw it posted so not sure why it didn't stay up