(I can’t wait till that’s a playable faction!) Where’s Dinner?Īt times certain things jump out at you that seem out place. People who suddenly descend out of the hills and siege you! It’s an unpleasant surprise to be on the ropes and have some barbarians descend from the mountains. Regardless of how pleased the nations are, you still run into barbarians. As it stands right now I’m slowly worming my way to secure the mountain passes and not anger the Gallic hordes. Just steamrolling wouldn’t work anymore as that random patchwork of Gaulic nations suddenly could attack me on the flanks. Suddenly I was beset on all sides by people with alliances, defensive pacts, connections. I really didn’t care who owned Venice (Venetia). My first ramble north (I decided to leave Carthage alone and focus on Transalpinia) seemed basic, boring, a series of “fabricate claims” followed by a short war. A whole host of things that are rather basic are just begging for their own expansion. That’s probably the key more than anything else, everything is here. It’s a basic start, but yearning for more. Declaring war can be a decision between incurring some Tyranny or adding a dash of favoritism. It almost has the feel of your council from CK2’s Conclave, but not quite. The Senate, for example, feels like a shell just waiting for a patch worth of focus. Overall it does a decent job of telling you “what” to do, if not “why” you are doing it. Hannibal and his elephants loom large across the Mediterranean. The tutorial sets the stage for a modest Rome to expand into all of Italy and eventually come into conflict with Carthage. (It still needs a bit of polish, see the overlapping icons) I find myself scrolling about to the mysterious parts and wondering what exactly those people are like? Particularly Germania, a place I’m looking forward to diving into. The map is, for the most part, really great to look at. They say the same thing, “Wait for a few patches and some DLC.” The game will be really good in a few patches, but I think you’ll miss out on a rewarding experience. We’ll get more into it later, but I see a lot of reviews comparing it to EUIV or CK2, games with added DLC, patches, and a plethora of mods. The world of antiquity is being replaced by what will be the Roman behemoth. Carthage is ascendant, Alexander is still a recent memory, and Gaul has yet to be conquered. Paradox’s Imperator : Rome tackles the Roman world circa 200 BCE.
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