GWJ Strategy Club Game 4: Imperator Rome COMPLETED

You need to build it correctly, I guess...

Robear wrote:

You are not supposed to disband it! lol You just pay a bit per month to keep it going.

I know, but it was too expensive to keep up.

It cost like double what I was making

Did you reduce the military pay for peacetime? And jack up your taxes and import values?

No idea where you adjust military pay. I have tried focusing on taxes and trade wherever possible (so mostly when a random window pops up with "do you want a knife in your back or 5% more taxes" etc)

There's an economy policy window near the top of the left-hand bar. You might have to change tabs in a window to see, but it governs country-wide economic policy.

Turned all expenses to a minimum, all income to max! Nothing can go wrong there.
Income went from 1 to 4. Which was still lower than the cost of that single legion though

Wow. Yeah. I looked, and the first legion was raised, what, in the 1st century BC? So we may be being taken in by our focus on wars and combat capabilities. Might be better to build the economy first, pour money into markets and such.

Robear wrote:

Okay... We'll see who else is interested.

I would be happy to help coordinate this but the upcoming weekend is bad for me. Would next weekend possibly work?

Yeah, next weekend would be better for me too.

Has anyone found a tutorial video for 2.0 they like? I realize there might be none at this point. But if you've got one, I would love to watch it.

jdzappa wrote:
Robear wrote:

Okay... We'll see who else is interested.

I would be happy to help coordinate this but the upcoming weekend is bad for me. Would next weekend possibly work?

Next weekend also good for me.

Edit: we could perhaps co-ordinate a time in the 'stratergery' (sic) channel in the GWJ Discord?

Works for me. If someone knows how to set that up, let us know.

Alrighty, I'm in too. I'm looking forward to this quite a bit.

Robear wrote:

Works for me. If someone knows how to set that up, let us know. :-)

I've posted in the GWJ Discord in the Stratergery channel mentioning the Q&A. Pinged both you and jdzappa there too, so we can discuss a suitable day/time.

I'm open on the weekends, I just don't do late nights. Gotta get my stress sleep.

First few years as Egypt under the 2.0 system are going well with the 1st Antigonid War coming to a close in our overwhelming favor. Took almost all of their holdings in Palestine/Syria as well as about half of the Cappadocian successor state.

Now to see if Egypt has become the latest black sheep of the Daidochi and if my cousins turn will their eyes towards us.

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I'm definitely game for a multiplayer session - will make sure to check the thread!

I've replied to the comments and suggestions in the GWJ stratergery Discord channel. Sun at 5pm EST as an option?

That’s good for me.

I’m down though I will likely need to bounce around 830. Will that give us enough time?

That’s probably my limit too lol. Couple of hours and done.

That's good for me too, I'll start up the tutorial for a couple of hours beforehand so at least I'll be able to find my way through the menus! Thanks for helping out Robear.

Neutrino wrote:

That's good for me too, I'll start up the tutorial for a couple of hours beforehand so at least I'll be able to find my way through the menus! Thanks for helping out Robear.

Works for me! I’ll do the same to get acquainted as much as possible.

Thanks for orchestrating, Neutrino! And thanks to you, Robear, for willing to be our Imperator Q&A guru!

So what's the idea? We do an MP and just chat? Or what?

I certainly can't answer all questions but I'll gamely field what I can. I expect some other folks have dived into various parts, so hopefully they can chip in too.

Whatever works best for you Robear. I'm not very experienced with Paradox games (played a bit of CK2 and HoI2) and never a multiplayer. Another option would be to all join a Discord voice chat and you could stream your game for us to watch and discuss.

Yeah, that's the format I've used in the past. I need to start over as I've mucked up my economic and tech choices in my current game. I didn't invest enough in my economy, tried to rush Legions, and now I'm mostly broke and can't afford anything like a Legion, while the Apulians lick their wounds and build alliances. So that might be a good thing to jump into.

But people should feel free to kibbitz as well as ask questions. Some of you will know some subsystems better than I do, so chip in.

Folks, with events of the weekend that are out of my control, I need to postpone the call this weekend. Can we push a week?

Robear wrote:

Folks, with events of the weekend that are out of my control, I need to postpone the call this weekend. Can we push a week?

Next week works for me. In the meantime, I'll get some practice

Neutrino wrote:
Robear wrote:

Folks, with events of the weekend that are out of my control, I need to postpone the call this weekend. Can we push a week?

Next week works for me. In the meantime, I'll get some practice :)

Ditto!

I've been playing as Judea, just out of randomness and because my last CK2 game there was a lot of fun. But not a lot seems to be happening. The Antigonids collapsed and now we pay tribute to Egypt, but that hasn't had much direct effect on me. I guess I'll try to keep up economic development and see if I can find a way to destabilize Egypt, or wait for them to get in a war with one of the other big boys and slink away in the chaos.