No tho. One of the pillars of success of Roman Empire was it's acceptance of other cultures and religions as long as they accepted Roman rule. The moment they tried to centralize and homogenise Empire the problems started which weakaned the Empire. Some of the Emperors weren't born in Italy.
@@janlubanski not true.. religions.. yes.. culture absolutely NOT.... to a roman.. the concept of "race" did not excist.. to them a roman.. was one that behaved like one.. that was why provinces that were more recently conquered (and thus culturally had enough time to become romanized).. could also father emperors.... **once they started to rely to much on german troops, and allowed germanic tribes to settle without forcing them to assimilate to roman culture.. as well as when romans themselves started to embrace too many foreign cultural things (like egyptian and greek) their society fell.. -to low native roman birthrates -to much immigration -failure to assimilate the immigrants to your own culture -decadence and materialism of the elite.. hollowing out the traditional values and replacing them for hedonism.. that brought rome down... and if we don't watch out.. it will bring europe down too... for we are already on that same slippery slope...
@@janlubanski No, that was it's doom. The secularism and paganism as Edward Gibbon stated, served the magistrate above all else, equally true, and equally false. Until Carcalla came about and stated that all citizens of the empire be citizens of rome. The true path is what occured by necessity under Theodosius, but in a calculated way...delineative and federative. An Imperial federation.
@@karelkootjes4019 No, Roman federalism failed once the empire reached its maximum size when Rome could not invade new territories (due to the fact that geographically they had reached a limit with the Sahara in the south, the Baltic in the north and the Atlantic in the west and the deserts of Mesopotamia east) to extract easy wealth and slaves, thr empire turn his efforts to increase taxes and his political control over the provinces which caused constant rebellions. Federalism was so disastrous that Constantine himself came to the conclusion that Rome as a whole cannot be governed and must be divided, it is simple, the bureaucratic mechanisms of that time could never achieve control of a multi-continental empire like Rome.
Roman soldier account of being among the first romans to view mars in person from a ship: Grandeur overcame me. Sitting in awe of the idol of war before me. Scarred bare,stained red. I and the men around me fell to our knees in awe. Some wept, others were simply silent.
I saw the SPQR name list and did this too. Fanatic Authoritarian and Militarist Slaver Guilds + Warrior Culture Adaptive, Natural Engineers, Traditional Unruly, Deviants Rome depended on slavery and the warrior culture creates “duelists” which are basically gladiators. Romans were natural engineers. They invented concrete and made great use of siege weapons. They revered tradition and being true “Romans”
Some more thoughts: Unruly and Deviants because Rome was a turbulent society with very high wealth inequality and lots of slavery. With my third civic I’d probably pick aristocratic elite to replicate the patrician, senatorial class.
I added “Adaptive” because the Roman Empire, at its height, spanned three continents and a incorporated lots of people it conquered. I debated making them xenophobic. They likely did see themselves as superior to others; there’s evidence from writings they felt particular prejudice towards Greeks and Persians. But, I opted against it because I wanted my play through to be about swallowing every other faction into my empire, not purging them. The fanatic authoritarian made sense for focusing all power in one emperor, and it has a nice bonus with workers
In my imagination, the Neo Roman Empire (as I called it) represents the parallel universe where the Roman Empire *never* fell. That’s what’s most fun about Stellaris, the little storylines you invent in your head as you play.
So I created a scenario for Stellaris where some wormholes appeared in Solar system and humans sent colony ships through them before wormholes collapsing. I created 3 human empires. One for original humans from Terra as oligarchic egalitarian xenophobes. Then pacifist spiritual democracy on a Gaia world. And some Roman larpers that embraced Latin language and Roman militaristic and xenophobic nature. Had great fun as Terrans until those bloody Romans started waging war against their ancestors lmao
I loved roleplaying as the Roman Empire in one of my playthroughs because Stellaris has a lot of mechanics that could tie up with the Roman Empire - slavery, specifying races as 2nd class (non citizens), federations, etc.
@@apollo1694 that's not what I'm saying at all and idk how you arrived at that nonsensical conclusion. I meant mechanics that help with your RP as a spacefaring Roman Empire because they're similar to what the Romans did. Plus the fact that the base game has a Roman-esque race template.
@@skepticalmagos_101 Being skeptical as a guardsman does not sound very healthy.. "Emperor protects!" "But does he though? I mean, we are millions here. Why would he protect me specifically?"
@TheWeeaboo Not really, with the Romans anyway, homosexuality wasn't really a concept for them, it was mostly based on power and social standing. If you were a "bottom" then you would be ostracized and seen as weak and unworthy of respect from other men, it was also used as a way of humiliating rivals. Greeks just thought "homosexual" behavior between men strengthened their friendship and trust with one another, which is why their ancient militaries had strange traditions relating to it. Of course there were romantic "homosexual" relationships at the time, but they were as rare as they are today. So in short, no, the Romans and Greeks weren't as open-minded about homosexuality as you think. It's also strange to try and apply modern sensibilities to ancient people, who are essentially from a different world than us.
@@grimmsby3011 As a Latin student, you're right about the Greek part. But wrong about the Roman part, homosexual relations weren't really looked down upon (solely if you were in any form of political career). The common populace could definitely be gay and barely anyone would bat an eye. Books were even written about how to have a better sex life as a gay couple. Romans were definitely quite open-minded about this kind of thing.
When you have to sit through CK3, VK2 and HOI4 doing nothing because you conquered the maps in Imperator and EU4 already, but then it was all for nothing in Stellaris.
False, if this was truly the Romans then they would have figured out a way to board enemy ships and fight them with laser swords, as is Roman naval tradition
The First thing every TRUE Roman Stellaris player must do... ...is naming your leader Biggus Dickus. -So you think my name is a joke, huh?... Colossus, fire.
From Troy to the Stars. To honor Patri Martis, our eternal father, and our mighty Caesar, we shall bend the galaxy to the Roman way. There shall be no other Law and Valor as a Roman have. Those who resist the Roman Way will be put out of existence. There's only one Caesar. One empire. One people.
just a game theory but if rome managed to unite the world in their time (iam talking anywhere between 10th 16th centurii) we would probably achieve star travel by now
If the world was united under ANY empire/civilization we would have achieved space travel and much more becuase a unified humanity would achieve much more without wars.
Am I the only one confused why people always put Militaristic on Rome? They conquered the entire Mediterranean via defensive wars, and it wasn't until the empire where offensive wars were waged. Authoritarian and Spiritualist seems more appropriate as from 753B.C - 1453A.D they were VERY religious.
I modelled two nations after the republic, giving them: Militarist (conquers everyone) Egalitarian (republic) Spiritualist (religion seemed to be WAY more important during this time period) Warrior Culture, because Gladiator can't remember the other civic 1st Empire: In the year 130 BC, An alien spacecraft abducted Humans near modern-day Venice, preforming various experiments on them. when the experiments were finished, the Aliens left the Humans on a cold, dead world... or so it seemed. The aliens didn't properly investigate the world they abandoned the Humans on, and the world just so happened to have life. Humans were barely able to survive on this frozen rock, but in time the small population managed, rebuilding their civilization from the ground up. somehow, they managed to preserve their culture to near perfection despite the sudden change in environment and being cut off from their nation back home. The Humans left on Earth had their very own space Empire, which rose and fell. Signs of their vessels would sometimes appear on this frozen world, driving the Romans to develop their own space flight. when they finally managed to develop interstellar travel, though, they were the last interstellar Empire. 2nd Empire, and my current game (I downloaded a species portrait pack, including an eagle-like "Aquilese", clearly meant to be played in some sort of Roman-Empire-Esque nation) There was a primitive Avian race on one planet the 1st Roman Empire conquered. With remarkable similarities to the "Aquila", some sort of mythical bird found on various pre-abduction artifacts, especially ones associated with war, brought with the first Romans (just an Eagle but the 1st Romans don't need to know that), the 1st Romans saw this species as an ally designated as such by the gods themselves. This species was protected, and the Roman culture and faith was gradually spread to them. Eventually, the 1st Romans would fall. campaigns by future empires attempted to wipe out their "Primitive and Barbaric" culture from the galaxy, but ignored the Aquilese, as they themselves were still quite primitive. The future empires thought the 1st Romans would have simply conquered these primitive species, and so decided that they only recently became sapient and never launched an investigation into their culture. Of course, these future empires would fall too, at which then the Aquilese would uncover spaceflight for themselves. The bad news was that the remnants of those "future empires" happened to be right next to this "2nd Roman Empire". Immediately realizing their mistake, all three swore to destroy the emerging Empire. ("Morbid Origins" four leaf clover start, putting you in between three hostile Empires. the following is based in gameplay, not lore) The incredible threat forced the 2nd Roman Empire to quickly prepare a military force, and conquer the aggressors. along the way, several 1st Roman Empire artifacts were discovered, reinforcing the now truly ancient culture and ensuring it would never waver.
@@kalebdent848 It gets better. So, I'm having a fun time ruling these Roman birds. I carved out a neat little empire. Despite being somewhat small, I was ahead militarily and technologically. There were problems, of course, but the path ahead looked bright. Then came the Katzens The Katzens, a sort of mid-game-crisis added by gigastructural engineering, was a race of german-empire-themed cats,whose kaiser would stop at nothing to conquer everyone. Being the Germanic barbarians they were, I naturally opposed them. A bit of a mistake. Despite heavy fortifications, Katzen fleets smashed through my "Alps" analog and fought their way towards my captiol region. At the same time, I funded revolutionaries on their homeworld. A few years later and I'm reduced to my last holdout, the captiol system at first. The Katzens send in their fleet, decimating my navy but for the first time failing to conquer a system. Another fleet would manage to take it. I decided to get the revolutionaries to rise up and try to overthrow the kaiser-If they won, I would be given the incredibly powerful katzen homeworld and the barbaric felines would be fractured, ending my hopeless war against them. At the same time, the Katzens called in a far larger troop transport intent on conquering my homeworld. Should they sack the heart of my nation, I would be dead, my empire wiped out. The two battles raged on the surface of our respective homeworlds for a year each. With both our empires on the line, the stakes couldn't be higher. I watched my defenders. My planetary shield blocked Katzen bombardment, but that didn't stop them from storming the military fortification and slowly wiping out my defenders. One by one my armies fell as buildings turned to rubble from the chaos. As I was down to my last dozen troops against the overwhelming invaders, a notification popped up, and the assault on my world ended. The rebels on the Katzen homeworld had won, and as promised gave me control over their home system. The war against the vats ended, their empire splintered into several warring states. All I had left from my once-prosperous nation was my capitol, a singular extra star system, and the Katzen Capitol. My nation was battered, beaten, and bruised, and yet alive. The coming years were harsh. Surrounded by enemies on all sides, one a massive Katzen state, my situation somewhat mirrored the last years of Rome. But in true paradox grand strategy spirit, this only encouraged me to keep going. I reconsidered first my own remnants- breakaways of my species from the Katzens, then when consolidated launched a campaign against the Katzen remnant, managing to crush it in a single war. Having reconsolidated and even expanded past my original borders, I had time to look over the map. I reminisced about the time before the Katzens- before the dominant powers were established and before advanced technologies turned wars into apocalyptic conflicts. There is a special place in my heart for early game stellaris, and it was very much clear that the era had passed. But having risen from the ashes of the desperate fight against the Katzens and the struggle to reclaim my fallen empire, it seemed that perhaps once again, the path ahead was bright. ... This would be the spot where I talk about how the end game crisis puts be back in the very same climactic fight I once fought against the Katzens, but I have not reached that part, for this game is actually still ongoing. The Aquilese Republic has faced many a challenge, beating their three rivals in the womb, triumphing over it's first hostile empire, taking a stand against the Katzens and living to tell the tale, and lastly reclaiming all it had lost and more still, but the coming storm may be the greatest one yet. Whenever the threat is prethorians, contingency, or unbidden the next great conflict shall test the republic- whenever it stands firm, hardened by Katzen hellfire, or buckle under the forces of evil remains to be seen. If you want, I will gladly keep this updated.
@@Kafson oh 100% the Stellaris universe is basically eu4 on a map. Whereas the 40k universe is a galaxy that's been inhabited for well millions of years, world's devastated by gods and abominations made by a dead race
"Salve Centvrion Corvittae. Vobis volo felicem novvm annvm ab vrbe condita MMCMLXXV." -- excerpt from a new year's greeting to corvette commanders in the space Roman Empire
You lost me at "Distinguished Admiralty". The Romans were shit sailors and they looked down on Admirals. Even the Eastern Romans, late in their time, had to depend on Norse sailors and Islanders to let them hang on to their little black lake.
@@Kafson that is true, it is also irrelevant. You either min/max or you roleplay. If you're roleplaying as the Roman Empire in space, you take the traits that match the actual Roman Empire and you out up with and overcome (to the best of your abilities) the weaknesses that imposes. That's just my view on it.
Called my rome the Hellan republic, transition to empire after subjugating a few barbarians. The universe rallied around my empire during war in heaven. The 5 legions were stretched thin, one nearly decimated, but one fallen went down. The technological hubris of the other awakened the unbidden in the middle of their empire giving me time to fortify the borders, restore my legions, and build Legio VI We have been in nonstop war for 100 years since the first subjugation war, and will fight another 100
Common people in modernized states when they are asked about their political preferences: _"I don't want to live in authoritarian/totalitarian society. I wouldn't like to live in Third Reich, Soviet Union, Red China, North Korea, Arab Caliphate or any other political nightmare. I want to live in democratic country. I like democracy!"_ Common people when they get power in strategic video game: 0:00 *"HA-HA-HA. MAXIMUM AGGRESSION! MAXIMUM EXPANSION! MAXIMUM GENOCIDE! MAXIMUM EXTERMINATION! NO PITY FOR OUTSIDERS!"*
"Now every inch of the Earth has been conquered, Rome must look elsewhere for new lands. We shall conquer the Heavens themselves, uniting every celestial body in the galaxy under our throne! Ave Invictus!" -Emperor [REDACTED] of the Imperium Terrae, giving a speech on the eve of the Galactic Conquest.
I love doing this. All my political leaders are Roman named and my generals and admirals are Celt/Pictish named. Italio-Celts love em. But I struggle to play Robots and full out exterminators or Hiveminds. This new Aquatic DLC looks decent.
Weirdly I run rome as autocratic militarist. Xenophobia is unroman, as long you conduct yourself correctly spacious of house fungus is as roman as eagles and hypocrisy
What’s weird is that I tried role playing as my own empire first but I always got hammered by federations, galactic sanctions, and ancient empire incursions but once I started anew and named my empire after the Romans I emerged as the dominant empire in the galaxy. First I negotiated, didn’t bother expanding my borders, only to key points so I can build impregnable starbases.,
How to play Roman Empire in Stellaris properly. Fanatic militarist + authoritarian Slaver guilds + warrior culture Species name: Homine, Homines, Hominem. Traits: adaptive, natural engineers, wasteful, decadent, traditional Flag: CM Eagle on pure red background How to play: Vassalize most neighbors around you, integrate one of them into your empire. Set default rights of all species to chattel slavery. Later on set some species to domestic servitude. On my run I got very lucky and found Zroni colonies and managed to rush psionic. I then went on to increase my diplomatic weight in the galaxy and established a hegemony with my vassals. I have since declared a determined exterminator empire as a crisis and are well on my way to becoming galactic custodian and eventually even galactic imperator. Truly the Roman play through of all time. Homo super omnes aliud.
made a bunch of Rome builds all with some degree of Xenophobe and obviously human. also with a roman number I-XL etc all with lost colony, large galaxy, took awhile to get a game but worth.
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Humanity above all else.
No tho. One of the pillars of success of Roman Empire was it's acceptance of other cultures and religions as long as they accepted Roman rule. The moment they tried to centralize and homogenise Empire the problems started which weakaned the Empire. Some of the Emperors weren't born in Italy.
@@janlubanski not true.. religions.. yes.. culture absolutely NOT.... to a roman.. the concept of "race" did not excist.. to them a roman.. was one that behaved like one.. that was why provinces that were more recently conquered (and thus culturally had enough time to become romanized).. could also father emperors....
**once they started to rely to much on german troops, and allowed germanic tribes to settle without forcing them to assimilate to roman culture.. as well as when romans themselves started to embrace too many foreign cultural things (like egyptian and greek) their society fell..
-to low native roman birthrates
-to much immigration
-failure to assimilate the immigrants to your own culture
-decadence and materialism of the elite.. hollowing out the traditional values and replacing them for hedonism..
that brought rome down... and if we don't watch out.. it will bring europe down too... for we are already on that same slippery slope...
@@janlubanski No, that was it's doom. The secularism and paganism as Edward Gibbon stated, served the magistrate above all else, equally true, and equally false. Until Carcalla came about and stated that all citizens of the empire be citizens of rome. The true path is what occured by necessity under Theodosius, but in a calculated way...delineative and federative. An Imperial federation.
@@janlubanski yes partly true but do keep in mind that these cultures and religions were still Human.
@@karelkootjes4019 No, Roman federalism failed once the empire reached its maximum size when Rome could not invade new territories (due to the fact that geographically they had reached a limit with the Sahara in the south, the Baltic in the north and the Atlantic in the west and the deserts of Mesopotamia east) to extract easy wealth and slaves, thr empire turn his efforts to increase taxes and his political control over the provinces which caused constant rebellions. Federalism was so disastrous that Constantine himself came to the conclusion that Rome as a whole cannot be governed and must be divided, it is simple, the bureaucratic mechanisms of that time could never achieve control of a multi-continental empire like Rome.
It doesn't matter what game you play , if its made by paradox you must at least once roleplay as the roman empire.
But few do it the proper way.
Every run of paradox games that i play i end up intentionally or unintentionally role-playing as the roman empire
Even Prison Architect?? :D
@@mrdictator7030 you could probably make Gladiator Arenas in prison architect
Bro true
Roman soldier account of being among the first romans to view mars in person from a ship: Grandeur overcame me. Sitting in awe of the idol of war before me. Scarred bare,stained red. I and the men around me fell to our knees in awe. Some wept, others were simply silent.
beautiful
I. Robertus Hospitio
Goosebumps
Brutal
I saw the SPQR name list and did this too.
Fanatic Authoritarian and Militarist
Slaver Guilds + Warrior Culture
Adaptive, Natural Engineers, Traditional
Unruly, Deviants
Rome depended on slavery and the warrior culture creates “duelists” which are basically gladiators.
Romans were natural engineers. They invented concrete and made great use of siege weapons.
They revered tradition and being true “Romans”
Some more thoughts:
Unruly and Deviants because Rome was a turbulent society with very high wealth inequality and lots of slavery.
With my third civic I’d probably pick aristocratic elite to replicate the patrician, senatorial class.
I added “Adaptive” because the Roman Empire, at its height, spanned three continents and a incorporated lots of people it conquered.
I debated making them xenophobic. They likely did see themselves as superior to others; there’s evidence from writings they felt particular prejudice towards Greeks and Persians.
But, I opted against it because I wanted my play through to be about swallowing every other faction into my empire, not purging them. The fanatic authoritarian made sense for focusing all power in one emperor, and it has a nice bonus with workers
In my imagination, the Neo Roman Empire (as I called it) represents the parallel universe where the Roman Empire *never* fell. That’s what’s most fun about Stellaris, the little storylines you invent in your head as you play.
I had many stories like that playing Stellaris. I am trying to recreate those in videos like this.
@@Kafson great stuff!
So I created a scenario for Stellaris where some wormholes appeared in Solar system and humans sent colony ships through them before wormholes collapsing. I created 3 human empires. One for original humans from Terra as oligarchic egalitarian xenophobes. Then pacifist spiritual democracy on a Gaia world. And some Roman larpers that embraced Latin language and Roman militaristic and xenophobic nature. Had great fun as Terrans until those bloody Romans started waging war against their ancestors lmao
if the ancestors forget their way the need to be reminded
I just did the Commonwealth of man except now they are German fanatic purifiers
This is the feeling of warhammer 40k player when play Stellaris.
It is better to die for the emperor than to live for yourself
- Julius Caesar
gotta love the community, turning a numbers based strategy game into a theatre epic score.
I loved roleplaying as the Roman Empire in one of my playthroughs because Stellaris has a lot of mechanics that could tie up with the Roman Empire - slavery, specifying races as 2nd class (non citizens), federations, etc.
Reaching with the "mechanics that tie up with the Roman Empire". There are humans in Stellaris, doesn't mean it ties up with Moldovia
@@apollo1694 that's not what I'm saying at all and idk how you arrived at that nonsensical conclusion. I meant mechanics that help with your RP as a spacefaring Roman Empire because they're similar to what the Romans did. Plus the fact that the base game has a Roman-esque race template.
the homoerotic undertones are really the cherry ontop
and they say white people have no culture smh
Ah yes, genetically enhanced legionnares
Astartes
Ahem..... Dont forget the people that do the actual heavy lifting.....
@@skepticalmagos_101 Being skeptical as a guardsman does not sound very healthy..
"Emperor protects!"
"But does he though? I mean, we are millions here. Why would he protect me specifically?"
LEGIO AETERNA VICTRIX!
All roads lead to Terra!
All hyperlanes connected to Solar.
Romans as Rapid Breeders are historically acurate
Carthage felt that
girls perfect world : everyone is happy and inlove and gay and there is world peace and unifcorns and all other crap
boys perfect world/galaxy :
based
@TheWeeaboo Not really, with the Romans anyway, homosexuality wasn't really a concept for them, it was mostly based on power and social standing. If you were a "bottom" then you would be ostracized and seen as weak and unworthy of respect from other men, it was also used as a way of humiliating rivals. Greeks just thought "homosexual" behavior between men strengthened their friendship and trust with one another, which is why their ancient militaries had strange traditions relating to it. Of course there were romantic "homosexual" relationships at the time, but they were as rare as they are today. So in short, no, the Romans and Greeks weren't as open-minded about homosexuality as you think. It's also strange to try and apply modern sensibilities to ancient people, who are essentially from a different world than us.
@TheWeeaboo Stop telling the truth!!!!!!, my fellings are hurt.
@@grimmsby3011 As a Latin student, you're right about the Greek part. But wrong about the Roman part, homosexual relations weren't really looked down upon (solely if you were in any form of political career). The common populace could definitely be gay and barely anyone would bat an eye. Books were even written about how to have a better sex life as a gay couple. Romans were definitely quite open-minded about this kind of thing.
The Great Khan: Oh, yes. It`s all coming togeter.
When you mega campaign from imperator Rome-CK3-EU4-VK2-HOI4-Stellaris
respect to anyone that actually done that.
That’s my dream for sure
When you have to sit through CK3, VK2 and HOI4 doing nothing because you conquered the maps in Imperator and EU4 already, but then it was all for nothing in Stellaris.
The algorithm led me to this video.
Virgin Union of Soviet Socialist Colonies vs CHAD Terra Imperii
POV; The Legion took Hoover Dam
Being able to terraform Mars would mean being able to transform it into a planet-wide shrine.
8^)
False, if this was truly the Romans then they would have figured out a way to board enemy ships and fight them with laser swords, as is Roman naval tradition
The glory of Rome lasts forever!
Dreaming of a glorious future for humanity
look who showed up
The First thing every TRUE Roman Stellaris player must do...
...is naming your leader Biggus Dickus.
-So you think my name is a joke, huh?... Colossus, fire.
Lol
the best Roman Empire larp is the Christian one
“Regnmum Dei”
From Troy to the Stars. To honor Patri Martis, our eternal father, and our mighty Caesar, we shall bend the galaxy to the Roman way. There shall be no other Law and Valor as a Roman have. Those who resist the Roman Way will be put out of existence.
There's only one Caesar. One empire. One people.
just a game theory but if rome managed to unite the world in their time (iam talking anywhere between 10th 16th centurii) we would probably achieve star travel by now
That depends if they didn't destroy themselves by then.
This assumes history is a "path" with a consistent direction
If the world was united under ANY empire/civilization we would have achieved space travel and much more becuase a unified humanity would achieve much more without wars.
Honestly Roman Empire in space would be an interstellar Christian Empire
Remember the late Roman Empire? Yeah it's very Christian
Both Very Based
@@abnegazher purging xenos in the name of Christ
Technically the Roman Empire were pretty accepting of other cultures and races as long as they accepted the roman stuff, but eh.
Am I the only one confused why people always put Militaristic on Rome?
They conquered the entire Mediterranean via defensive wars, and it wasn't until the empire where offensive wars were waged.
Authoritarian and Spiritualist seems more appropriate as from 753B.C - 1453A.D they were VERY religious.
bro read a book
Roma Aterna, Roma Invicta!
I modelled two nations after the republic, giving them:
Militarist (conquers everyone)
Egalitarian (republic)
Spiritualist (religion seemed to be WAY more important during this time period)
Warrior Culture, because Gladiator
can't remember the other civic
1st Empire:
In the year 130 BC, An alien spacecraft abducted Humans near modern-day Venice, preforming various experiments on them. when the experiments were finished, the Aliens left the Humans on a cold, dead world... or so it seemed.
The aliens didn't properly investigate the world they abandoned the Humans on, and the world just so happened to have life. Humans were barely able to survive on this frozen rock, but in time the small population managed, rebuilding their civilization from the ground up. somehow, they managed to preserve their culture to near perfection despite the sudden change in environment and being cut off from their nation back home.
The Humans left on Earth had their very own space Empire, which rose and fell. Signs of their vessels would sometimes appear on this frozen world, driving the Romans to develop their own space flight. when they finally managed to develop interstellar travel, though, they were the last interstellar Empire.
2nd Empire, and my current game
(I downloaded a species portrait pack, including an eagle-like "Aquilese", clearly meant to be played in some sort of Roman-Empire-Esque nation)
There was a primitive Avian race on one planet the 1st Roman Empire conquered. With remarkable similarities to the "Aquila", some sort of mythical bird found on various pre-abduction artifacts, especially ones associated with war, brought with the first Romans (just an Eagle but the 1st Romans don't need to know that), the 1st Romans saw this species as an ally designated as such by the gods themselves. This species was protected, and the Roman culture and faith was gradually spread to them.
Eventually, the 1st Romans would fall. campaigns by future empires attempted to wipe out their "Primitive and Barbaric" culture from the galaxy, but ignored the Aquilese, as they themselves were still quite primitive. The future empires thought the 1st Romans would have simply conquered these primitive species, and so decided that they only recently became sapient and never launched an investigation into their culture.
Of course, these future empires would fall too, at which then the Aquilese would uncover spaceflight for themselves. The bad news was that the remnants of those "future empires" happened to be right next to this "2nd Roman Empire". Immediately realizing their mistake, all three swore to destroy the emerging Empire. ("Morbid Origins" four leaf clover start, putting you in between three hostile Empires. the following is based in gameplay, not lore) The incredible threat forced the 2nd Roman Empire to quickly prepare a military force, and conquer the aggressors. along the way, several 1st Roman Empire artifacts were discovered, reinforcing the now truly ancient culture and ensuring it would never waver.
So, the Romans were replaced with Roman birds?
@@cracno1125 yes
That's fuckin cool
@@kalebdent848
It gets better.
So, I'm having a fun time ruling these Roman birds. I carved out a neat little empire. Despite being somewhat small, I was ahead militarily and technologically. There were problems, of course, but the path ahead looked bright.
Then came the Katzens
The Katzens, a sort of mid-game-crisis added by gigastructural engineering, was a race of german-empire-themed cats,whose kaiser would stop at nothing to conquer everyone. Being the Germanic barbarians they were, I naturally opposed them. A bit of a mistake.
Despite heavy fortifications, Katzen fleets smashed through my "Alps" analog and fought their way towards my captiol region. At the same time, I funded revolutionaries on their homeworld.
A few years later and I'm reduced to my last holdout, the captiol system at first. The Katzens send in their fleet, decimating my navy but for the first time failing to conquer a system. Another fleet would manage to take it.
I decided to get the revolutionaries to rise up and try to overthrow the kaiser-If they won, I would be given the incredibly powerful katzen homeworld and the barbaric felines would be fractured, ending my hopeless war against them. At the same time, the Katzens called in a far larger troop transport intent on conquering my homeworld. Should they sack the heart of my nation, I would be dead, my empire wiped out.
The two battles raged on the surface of our respective homeworlds for a year each. With both our empires on the line, the stakes couldn't be higher.
I watched my defenders. My planetary shield blocked Katzen bombardment, but that didn't stop them from storming the military fortification and slowly wiping out my defenders. One by one my armies fell as buildings turned to rubble from the chaos. As I was down to my last dozen troops against the overwhelming invaders, a notification popped up, and the assault on my world ended.
The rebels on the Katzen homeworld had won, and as promised gave me control over their home system. The war against the vats ended, their empire splintered into several warring states. All I had left from my once-prosperous nation was my capitol, a singular extra star system, and the Katzen Capitol. My nation was battered, beaten, and bruised, and yet alive.
The coming years were harsh. Surrounded by enemies on all sides, one a massive Katzen state, my situation somewhat mirrored the last years of Rome. But in true paradox grand strategy spirit, this only encouraged me to keep going. I reconsidered first my own remnants- breakaways of my species from the Katzens, then when consolidated launched a campaign against the Katzen remnant, managing to crush it in a single war.
Having reconsolidated and even expanded past my original borders, I had time to look over the map. I reminisced about the time before the Katzens- before the dominant powers were established and before advanced technologies turned wars into apocalyptic conflicts. There is a special place in my heart for early game stellaris, and it was very much clear that the era had passed.
But having risen from the ashes of the desperate fight against the Katzens and the struggle to reclaim my fallen empire, it seemed that perhaps once again, the path ahead was bright.
...
This would be the spot where I talk about how the end game crisis puts be back in the very same climactic fight I once fought against the Katzens, but I have not reached that part, for this game is actually still ongoing. The Aquilese Republic has faced many a challenge, beating their three rivals in the womb, triumphing over it's first hostile empire, taking a stand against the Katzens and living to tell the tale, and lastly reclaiming all it had lost and more still, but the coming storm may be the greatest one yet. Whenever the threat is prethorians, contingency, or unbidden the next great conflict shall test the republic- whenever it stands firm, hardened by Katzen hellfire, or buckle under the forces of evil remains to be seen.
If you want, I will gladly keep this updated.
My very first game was as the "Neo Roman Empire".
Homines Aeterna Victrix!
Stellarises starting date is 2200. We still have time to give the universe its greatest showtime
To be accurate to rome they'd have to be assimilationist
Isn't Rome more of an Oligarchy?
*Olivegarchy
Republic vs Empire
The music legitimately made me cry, huge nostalgia hit me hard when I heard it. This is beautiful
Terra Invictus!
Isn't this what everyone plays each game??
Maybe ethic wise, but playing like a true Roman is another thing.
@@Kafson sooo no difference..? In all seriousness its either Roman Empire or Roman Empire on steroids (imperium of man)
@@stupidmonkey1015 Making the IOM in Stellaris is difficult. Stellaris lacks the feeling of a truly dark world.
@@Kafson oh 100% the Stellaris universe is basically eu4 on a map. Whereas the 40k universe is a galaxy that's been inhabited for well millions of years, world's devastated by gods and abominations made by a dead race
@@stupidmonkey1015 yes in that term Stellaris is a kids game.
Personally I call my roman power fantasy the "New Roman Empire" but that is just me and my unoriginal ass.
At least that way you're not botching Latin like this guy.
@@LOLERXP My Latin scholar brain kicked in and I noticed every error after this.
The Roman’s integrated different races and ethnicity into their empire, so the whole humanity first xenophobic thing is kinda dumb
Found the snowflake
Roma Invicta!!!
"Salve Centvrion Corvittae. Vobis volo felicem novvm annvm ab vrbe condita MMCMLXXV."
-- excerpt from a new year's greeting to corvette commanders in the space Roman Empire
I play the Terran Empire From star trek.
Our space charriots will blot out the sun.
You lost me at "Distinguished Admiralty".
The Romans were shit sailors and they looked down on Admirals. Even the Eastern Romans, late in their time, had to depend on Norse sailors and Islanders to let them hang on to their little black lake.
It's not like the only way to conquer in stellaris is via a fleet. The lackluster ground based combat being not even worthy of mention.
@@Kafson that is true, it is also irrelevant. You either min/max or you roleplay. If you're roleplaying as the Roman Empire in space, you take the traits that match the actual Roman Empire and you out up with and overcome (to the best of your abilities) the weaknesses that imposes. That's just my view on it.
@@jesseberg3271 my thought was that they were tactical superior to their enemies, hence the admirality.
how'd you get the red name?
Yes
Called my rome the Hellan republic, transition to empire after subjugating a few barbarians.
The universe rallied around my empire during war in heaven. The 5 legions were stretched thin, one nearly decimated, but one fallen went down. The technological hubris of the other awakened the unbidden in the middle of their empire giving me time to fortify the borders, restore my legions, and build Legio VI
We have been in nonstop war for 100 years since the first subjugation war, and will fight another 100
this
this is the most based thing i've ever seen
Love your edits
*Kafson smiled*
What was te first painting in the background at 0:00?
The course of the empire.
Carthago delenda est
The best roman ending
Based ending.
Audentes Fortuna iuvat.
Ave.
Rome if Aurelian never died
Common people in modernized states when they are asked about their political preferences: _"I don't want to live in authoritarian/totalitarian society. I wouldn't like to live in Third Reich, Soviet Union, Red China, North Korea, Arab Caliphate or any other political nightmare. I want to live in democratic country. I like democracy!"_
Common people when they get power in strategic video game: 0:00
*"HA-HA-HA. MAXIMUM AGGRESSION! MAXIMUM EXPANSION! MAXIMUM GENOCIDE! MAXIMUM EXTERMINATION! NO PITY FOR OUTSIDERS!"*
"Now every inch of the Earth has been conquered, Rome must look elsewhere for new lands. We shall conquer the Heavens themselves, uniting every celestial body in the galaxy under our throne! Ave Invictus!"
-Emperor [REDACTED] of the Imperium Terrae, giving a speech on the eve of the Galactic Conquest.
Spoils of war?
What mod are you using? Is it in vanilla? How?
idk the specific mod, check my modlist on my channel.
I love doing this. All my political leaders are Roman named and my generals and admirals are Celt/Pictish named. Italio-Celts love em. But I struggle to play Robots and full out exterminators or Hiveminds. This new Aquatic DLC looks decent.
I know a way how to get the new dlc for free on steam.
@@Kafson Enlighten me.
Long live Galactic emperor Caeser!
If aurelian didn't die
He still lives on in our hearts.
For the republic!
For glorious Terra!
Weirdly I run rome as autocratic militarist. Xenophobia is unroman, as long you conduct yourself correctly spacious of house fungus is as roman as eagles and hypocrisy
I mean the romans were pretty xenophobic since they called everyone that weren’t them barbarians
@@f2p781 this is late but the word barbarian wasn’t the same for them it just meant non-Roman no racism involved
Roma Aeterna Victrix.
What’s weird is that I tried role playing as my own empire first but I always got hammered by federations, galactic sanctions, and ancient empire incursions but once I started anew and named my empire after the Romans I emerged as the dominant empire in the galaxy. First I negotiated, didn’t bother expanding my borders, only to key points so I can build impregnable starbases.,
The march of the templars was a good choice for the music
Except it's not.
FOR THE GLORY OF ROME!!!! ROMA ETERNA!!
What mod did you use to get the space battles to look that cool
I have my modlist on my channel published.
Predecessor of imperium of man
How to play Roman Empire in Stellaris properly.
Fanatic militarist + authoritarian
Slaver guilds + warrior culture
Species name: Homine, Homines, Hominem.
Traits: adaptive, natural engineers, wasteful, decadent, traditional
Flag: CM Eagle on pure red background
How to play: Vassalize most neighbors around you, integrate one of them into your empire. Set default rights of all species to chattel slavery. Later on set some species to domestic servitude.
On my run I got very lucky and found Zroni colonies and managed to rush psionic. I then went on to increase my diplomatic weight in the galaxy and established a hegemony with my vassals. I have since declared a determined exterminator empire as a crisis and are well on my way to becoming galactic custodian and eventually even galactic imperator. Truly the Roman play through of all time.
Homo super omnes aliud.
you forgot being xenophobic
All hyperlanes leads to Terra
Everybody gangsta ‘til Preliator starts
“Slavers guild” “humanity above all else”
Hello from Russia!)
Two Romes have fallen, the Third is standing, and the fourth will never be.
third is standing lmao wait till your gas runs out
Isn't the third Nazi Germany? Like the Third Reich?
How did you get loot from wining a war?
yes
@@Kafson Is it a mod?
Epic video for an even more epic song
You definitly inspired my next playthrough my frend.
Which flag do you guys prefer? Laurel wreath or the eagle?
SPQR has not been updated since 2016 - don't waste your time.
Awesome vid
Thx
I roleplayed as the late Roman Empire, a theocratic empire with an heredity monarchy
Quintus get the cross we must civilize the stars
This has sparked something in me, brb
Just like the imperium of man
What's the name of the song?
it's like having a wrist watch and asking someone what time it is.
I wanna know too!
The second one is "March of the Templars", but I don't know what the first one ist because someone @@Kafson did not put it in the video description...
You guys are just sad, the song name is in the description. Thought my watch allegory would suffice. Guess not.
what visual mods are you using? for the galaxy map and to make the ships very small
made a bunch of Rome builds all with some degree of Xenophobe and obviously human. also with a roman number I-XL etc
all with lost colony, large galaxy, took awhile to get a game but worth.
Do exist some mod that add the SDF CoD IW spaceships? I would love!
thumbs up
Thanks
tbh in my opinion this wouldve happened if roman empire never falled
EMPERIUS ROMANUS
Nova Aetas
Looks at distinguished Admiralty... This is not Rome.
cringe
mars is not a god he just a planet or snack ;)
The Stellaris Marketing dept should have created videos for every faction, and mainly based in Old Human ones
where exploit?
Soon
@@Kafson yeey