Playing as Rome in the mid-game can be difficult as it’s easy to be involved in a two front war. Something to prevent that is signing agreements with the minor factions to the north of Italy while trying to get alliances with the Greek factions and Egypt. Then after uniting central and southern Italy, begin eliminating Carthage in the Mediterranean allowing for a safe naval landing of North Africa. Then sweep clockwise across Africa towards Spain to finish off Carthage. All the while having allies to the east, and non aggression pacts to the north. Keep sweeping clockwise through Spain, France, UK, and Germany. Hope that might help someone!
I do corsica, Ibossin, tarraco and it works too, but you need a strong fleet. Once you reach Spain and stablish a recruitment province there, Carthage it's done
I did the opposite, as Carthage and siracusa seemed very passive I went to much confidence and went to Greece and the Alps at the same time... Everything was going very good until all the Gauls got mad and attacked while Macedonia kicked my ass in Greece and Carthage, Wich was accumulating power in the shadows starts to destroy me in Italy haha
Something I love about this mod is that they make Roma themselves a challenge the most op faction in the vanilla game they also make expansion in the game reasonable and realistic to where unlike the vanilla game you could just conquer the whole western part of the map by turn 60
Man, I wish I had this guide when I started playing DEI. I started as Macedon my first campaign in DEI. Took me about 6 redos to get that one going and figure out all the intricacies of this mod, but once I figured it out (mostly), I've had a lot of fun and gotten a ton of enjoyment out of the game. Great video
Haha mate that would probably take the same amount of attempts for me even now :D Its a tough campaign, at least it used to be. I gotta do another faction overview on that faction now that its been rebalanced.
@@scautoharpist Perhaps, although one of the big changes is that they now have client states among the Greeks. Your not instantly fighting literally every Greek faction on turn 2. So you have a lot more support now.
A good tactic for playing a culture that is not shared by neighbors is to send your missionaries to their regions and give them abilities to spread your culture. this way when you conqur new regions you already have a population pool of your culture which makes recruitment and replenishment faster and you can always keep your army in good fighting shape.
The Greeks did this historically and were very successful. If they weren’t divided against each other, they would have created an empire as large as Rome’s.
#1 excellent video, love that there is such a passionate and growing DEI community! You asked if there is anything that should be added... I would suggest letting the new players know about the sea supply as well... for anyone reading, the "civilized" factions can build a supply ship. Keep that ship near your army in the sea to prevent attrition. The supply ship can also help supply land armies near the cost. Also keep in mind your navies must dock in 1 of your ports every 8 turns or else they will face attrition as well.
Once you know the population numbers you know the best place to recruit from. I start a General in a city. Keep him there to build up a couple of levels. I recruit some core units then move the army to provinces that have good cavalry, missal troops and spear units. It a bit time consuming but I found these armies to be very effective. The down side is having a army that you made to fight in Gaul and you take it to the middle east.
Very nice input mate! It’s so interesting to me how moving your general can hve such a big impact. It makes you think about the area he’s in and what troops are available that would’ve been available historically as well
I had to do that exact thing lol recruited an army in Rome, marched west to come down and take Carthage (they had a strong fleet vs my no fleet lol so I tried to avoid going through Sicily) and after that kept pushing them through Egypt through to Antioch…took forever lol
really great job of explaining without omission for people who really need all the details. as an old man i appreciate when someone gives a thorough explanation of game modding!
Even though I’ve been a DEI fan for years, I haven’t played for such a long time now that I think I’ll get some useful insights out of this and refresh my memory! 😂 I really hope I can find some time for DEI again, maybe when this semester ends in March… 👀 I hope you are doing well Immersaholic and I’m looking forward to check out all the changes and new content introduced in DEI. 😎
Good to hear from you my man, hope your doing well and studying your booty off! Got a lot more DEI content coming that I hope you'll enjoy too. Let me know when you get back into the campaigns mate!
I love the Kimbroz. Their elite axe unit is one of the strongest heavy infantry units in the game, but you can only recruit them as a general's bodyguard. They also have excellent swordsmen and peltasts
I would go so far as saying they're the best heavy infantry, period. The only axe unit that can go defensive formation and thus a 300 man unit that does +3 bonus vs infantry. If only they didn't take baby steps on the campaign map they'd be more fun to play. No idea why they decided that dumbass penalty.
@@Userius1 Ah I forgot they are 300 strong too.. Do they have a javelin? They could definitely be a high contender for being among the best. I'm not sure if a single unit can ever hold the title of being THE best heavy infantry. Best axe unit can be done though for sure.
They are certainly a force to be feared. In the early game, they dominate the peasant levies of other Germanic tribes. Kimbroz also have a heavy sword unit that is superior to anything that Galatia and Rome can produce. 17 attack, 13 melee defence, 38 armour, defensive formation and 52 morale I think. I tested them against praetorians and they triumphed with only 30-40 casualties
Have you played the Scordisci the Cordinau Orca or scordisci elite swords man totally smash everything. Seriously its like a perfect blend of an axe unit and a elite barbarian swords man. They also have a bonus vs Cavs and even elephants. I spent a good solid 3 hours testing them out versus different units. No barbarian swords or even much more expensive roman swords cant defeat them. I even tried them against the Indian faction where they had three elite two handed clubman I forget what they are called and and 3 elite elephants vs 3 of the elite swords man and a spear general. It was epic tbh they won.
Just got into Rome 2 after watching ppl play it forever. Finished a vanilla campaign as the Seleucids on hard and didnt feel too much of a challenge. Just installed this mod super excited to try the changes/narrative campaigns and all for free. Thanks for the guide
Haha same mate! I love teaching and helping people so I try to think about exactly what I would want to watch or know and then put that into my videos. Cheers!
This is a awesome video about this mod great work man reinstalling right now also looking for other videos like this on other Total War mods just an awesome job
Amazing video thanks for that just one question if I may how do add graphics to the mod manager is it on top or bottom of Divide Et Impera thanks again .
At your first launch of Rome 2 after installing DeI mod, you might still get normal Rome 2 screen. So use arrows on the bottom right to switch your campaign set to DeI.
Great video. It sounds funny to me as a Latin descent hearing you pronouncing those names so differently. Triarii we say - tria riii . Patricii we say - pa tri cii . Would be fun to see you trying to say the names properly. Thanks for the video
Maurya are tricky to deal with as Baktria because virtually ALL their core infantry, at least in the early game, has a bonus vs elephants. I learned that the hard way.
Mate great video for dei beginners! Really like it. For me its 8-9 years to late lol, but nevertheless i enjoyed watching it, cause its very easy for a non native speaker to understand you. I made some tactic and battle guide Videos (german language) and i presented the mod in a single video, at the moment i am working on a pretty similar beginner guide video for the german speaking audience. Cause especially the older audience isnt always good enough in fluent english. Keep up the good work! 🙂
@@Immersaholic Thanks buddy, I've started with tactical videos and a series about mods. I also made a video about DEI there. Well, the two parts go in depth and explain all the main mechanics. Primarily for beginners. I hope this will make it easier for new players to get started with this great mod.
Ayyy he got the cookie 😎 This is exactly what the video is tailored for, sometimes it’s easier to just give your mates a link instead of trying to bombard them with too much info
Thanks so much for the input and video request! I've never checked out that mod, mods covering the Rashidun Caliphate can be a bit tricky as they sometimes show images of the Prophet (S.A.W.) and his companions. So I'll have to investigate it first, but I hope the mod gives us a fun chance to finally jump into that era of history.
Welcome to DeI mate! If you have any questions always feel free to ask in the comments section or join our community discord server, we have a wide range of levels of players from 1000+ hour veterans of DeI to newcomers as well :)
I loved imperator augustus personally its an amazing campaign for someone who wants to jump into the augustan and imperial period without declaring war on 100 different barbarian nations.
ROME 2 DEI is a great mod where more in depth for politics, population, supplies for army, weather factor etc where wish was more indepth for these factors. however for me doesn't address two of the most fundamental issues in the grand campaign. this being the lack of towns and cities in the grand campaign map. there are keys towns and cities that need to be added. they are in certain campaigns like caser and gaul, rise of the republic and wrath of Sparta/ Greece but this those campaigns only deal with a small part of the known world. i know what the response going to be that the game only allows a certain amount of town and cities but still it needs to be sorted. the other factors that ties into the amount of town and cities is the deck of units in each army. where can only recruit 20 units in a pack. with the pack being in effect a legion and we all know how big a legion was. the standard thing is to increase the amount in each unit but with that you lose maneuver, there is a mod i used a while ago where you could increase the units from 20 to 70 units or more in a pack but with that due to the lack of cities and towns you cant support multiple legions that size.
So the mods load with part 3 first, then part 2, then part 1?. I see in the load order you have part 3 as "14" being the lowest order number out of the 3 mods... is this correct?
Hello ! i enjoy the dimplomacy system in vanilla , is this mod gona have any efects on dimplomacy ? ( like less loyal vassals and moretreachery ) thanks for the answer
Gday mate! The diplomacy is somewhat the same as vanilla in that on normal difficulty the ai is nice and will do agreements with you but on hard and very hard you’ll see more treachery and resistance against diplomacy
I know, it´s 1 year ago this video, but I have only one question,..i played all Total War games and I am new in DEI, on which difficulty would you play as experience player in TW´s, but new in DEI? Thank you!
I've watched plenty of your video's but I've FINALLY brought myself to download DEI ! Ever since the Greek Cities in the original Rome I've been a sucker for Greek history and playthroughs, are there any Greek factions that you recommend for DEI beginners? Or is it better for me to start elsewhere?
Nice mate have fun! For Hellenic style factions I’d recommend Bactria or Egypt as they are very easy campaigns. Athens is fun but tricky and Sparta is very hard in that you don’t get many actual Spartans. Pergamon would be good for a average difficulty campaign too
Any1 know how to get 41 unit stack its confusing for me to go through files what not then saveparser whatever it is ect i want it to do it easy way like mod workshop what mod do i have to subscribe ?
DEI doesn’t load when the game starts it just loads the vanilla version. I’ve done the order shown in this video and no other mods included. I’m honestly kinda lost.
I used to play this mod all of the time. Came back to play it again after the recent upgrades and the starting economy is minus 7000 to 11,000!! Even after upgrading farms, ports etc and making numerous trade deals, I remain 5000 in debt and become bankrupt from the off.
hi... this is a really great beginners guide. btw, I always make specialized provinces like for military recruitment, food province, manufacture/mining, etc. but the problem is I never get a good supply of high classed citizens and foreigners for my military provinces since i need them a lot, even after I built a lot of specific buildings for that and also tweak a few "building_effect" with pfm for buffing the 1st and 4th % citizen population a lot, but somehow its not really impact their specific "building %" growth factors. you have a solution for this?
Adjusting the tax level can really impact certain classes. The lower the tax then the more citizens you’ll keep. Also research technologies that help your pop go up early on
@@Immersaholic my taxes already set at the lowest, the food in the province is a surplus, I even use Latium as my military province since it have the capital bonus, full building slots are maxed out and built for barracks and a few temple of mars. the ports already turned into fisheries to support the food supply and all of the building level are maxed out. and yet, the patricii pops only increase +10 people, +200 for perigini, but the plebs is over +1000 people per turn, even after I tweaked the "building_effect" to only buff the 1st and 4th citizens. and the weird part is the other provinces have around 200+ of increased 1st citizen pops even when I'm not using buffed buildings. so now I don't know what to do to get it for my military province.. ☹️
hey quick question if anybody happens to know. I noticed during the Custom Battle army selection screen, That I have approximately half of the available factions for the Grand Campaign. Granted, I dont have all of the DLC. Is this the only reason for my lack of possible factions?, or could it have anything to do potentially with my mod load order, or something else I may be overlooking?
It is lack of DLC mate. Quite a few factions are locked behind DLC. I recommend getting them during sales. They happen quite frequently and you'll see the DLC go down to being just a few bucks each quite often.
How does Rome 2 with DEI mod fare on newer computers? Is there a difference at all...like having 41 armies being laggy the same or not....loading saved games loading quicker or same etc. Thanks for answering in advance.
I have a question planning on buying my first laptop , and i dont know any about how steam works, but im asking does this mods have some charges once you subscribed after buying the rome 2 pack ... im new to this games things on steam.. thank you
@@Immersaholic ohh wow I cant hardly believe i know about that , thank you for the answer looking forward to it to play been waiting so long to play this game ... because of poverty cant afford such this things , but nearly soon enough my childhood dreams will be healed
Usually either normal or hard camping difficulty depending on your experience with the mod. But keep battles on Normal otherwise the stats can get broken.
Hi great Video. They made a lots if cool changes, i love how they improoft the combat, now my elephants feel mighty again...however, im new to rome 2 so a lot of this whole Population and suply stuff is annoying, is there a sub mod for dei thats makes things a little less annoying?
There is definitely submods that either remove those features or at least make it so they aren't a problem at all. To be honest if you just play on normal difficulty those systems really don't slow you down all that much for most factions.
@@konighartzderiv.4898 I wouldn't really have any idea sorry mate. I know the actual DEI team has posted their own mods to help make it easier, so just go to the steam workshop and check out the mods they've posted :)
Changing the stack parser editor is super simple, I was scared at first too but once you do it the first time your set mate. I’ll see if I can make some time to do a short video about it soon 🤓
I don't know the other mod but I imagine both are great with very different settings. It just depends if you wanna be in Europe or Japan, DeI is still fantastic and is still being updated/worked on :)
I installed the mod from steam and when on on the campaign map where the population number should be it says 'dy' when I hover over the icons related to the population nothing comes up. Also when starting a new campaign I click the Qritani culture I only have the option to select the Icenic faction nothing else. Any help would be appreciated. Using no other mods only DEI parts 1-3
Are you playing in English? I’d say make sure you are. That and you need a legal copy of the game. Besides that I’d say try a complete clean install of the game in case there is an issue with mods, wipe the setting folder too
@@Jose-si7td Best of luck friend! Sucks your having trouble. If that doesn't work I'd suggest for you to join my discord of the official DeI discord to ask around in the community for tech help :)
im a veteran tw player but my first campaign with colchis in dei wasa kind of disaster, i fucked up against kartli and bosphorus then i bankrupted and quit the campaign, is colchis that hard or?
Colchis is definitely very hard mate. I know you said your a vet to TW but if your newer to DeI I’d recommend try a campaign as Bosphorus. It’s in the same region but a lot more manageable
I get so frustrated with the initial 2 front war as rome. I haven't been able to win because as soon as I take both my armies to either one of the enemy capitols, one of them takes a city from me and I'm bankrupted. The ai is so good and I simply can't stand losing like this, as I play strategy games so often and believe myself to be generally very good at them. One of my biggest problems is that stationing troops in a town will lower public order and cause rebellion, which I think is very odd and means I can only defend the towns by reinforcing in battle. Which in turn means I'm fighting back into my town with hastati after it's taken by an army of elephants and hoplites. Very challenging for me and I would appreciate any tips to help my situation.
Maybe because in fact of history, Roman Republican hates to have any of their general bring the armies into the city. Ok, I'm suggesting you to focus on Latium at first stage of campaign
Damn this game is beating my ass. I was playing as Rome, holding off Epirus and yo-yoing back and forth with them for a couple hours and the fucking Etruscans just came down from up north and starting absolutely bodying me. I have no clue what I'm doing ngl this plays so much different than vanilla Rome 2 and Attila, or even 1212AD
For me theres 1 downside, the more turns im in the longer the wait. At turn 140 ending the turn took at least 3 minuts. Loading a load campaign takes 5 minutes. Might be my old laptop s problem tho
I would say yes :) Even if your brand new to Rome 2 you can still jump into the mod and have a great time. It's not a steep learning curve in my opinion. Just be prepared to know that battles happen more slowly, and campaigns can be slightly tougher than vanilla since you recruit units from an actual population now.
Is there a submod that keeps DeI's campaign system but makes battles more like vanilla? I don't mind some more complexity in the campaign but I don't want 30+ minute battles for every battle.
Yes, the DeI team has a submod out that makes battles faster. You can look for it on steam or ask on their discord. It’s a mod that is specific to DeI and should just be titled “faster battles” or something like that.
You know what my problem is? I follow you advice but i am sure not good enough to do hard but i still not give up Even i feel my campagin end around 5 to 10 So i think about to just play normal first but again pride !
I do my best to keep an eye on comments mate. CZcams isn’t the best at notifying me but I do what I can. You can also always join our discord if you have more questions 🤓
The reason why Divide et Impera keeps getting new players even today is because Rome never dies. ✊
Roma Eterna!
*Carthage never dies*
@@90skidcultist Carthage cool too not gonna lie
@@90skidcultist Never forget D:
@@90skidcultist It always dies when I play as Rome
Playing as Rome in the mid-game can be difficult as it’s easy to be involved in a two front war. Something to prevent that is signing agreements with the minor factions to the north of Italy while trying to get alliances with the Greek factions and Egypt. Then after uniting central and southern Italy, begin eliminating Carthage in the Mediterranean allowing for a safe naval landing of North Africa. Then sweep clockwise across Africa towards Spain to finish off Carthage. All the while having allies to the east, and non aggression pacts to the north. Keep sweeping clockwise through Spain, France, UK, and Germany. Hope that might help someone!
Sound advice!
I do corsica, Ibossin, tarraco and it works too, but you need a strong fleet. Once you reach Spain and stablish a recruitment province there, Carthage it's done
Thats exactly how the campaign turned out for me. I hold the capitol of Carthage and the city to the south.
I did the opposite, as Carthage and siracusa seemed very passive I went to much confidence and went to Greece and the Alps at the same time... Everything was going very good until all the Gauls got mad and attacked while Macedonia kicked my ass in Greece and Carthage, Wich was accumulating power in the shadows starts to destroy me in Italy haha
Something I love about this mod is that they make Roma themselves a challenge the most op faction in the vanilla game they also make expansion in the game reasonable and realistic to where unlike the vanilla game you could just conquer the whole western part of the map by turn 60
I've played like 4 campaigns as Rome and all 4 turned out to be an all out 120 turn war against Carthage, no chance of going in any other direction
@@vinnieg6161Try Sparta. I just finnished grand campaign with them and I conquered whole map with ease
Man, I wish I had this guide when I started playing DEI. I started as Macedon my first campaign in DEI. Took me about 6 redos to get that one going and figure out all the intricacies of this mod, but once I figured it out (mostly), I've had a lot of fun and gotten a ton of enjoyment out of the game. Great video
Haha mate that would probably take the same amount of attempts for me even now :D Its a tough campaign, at least it used to be. I gotta do another faction overview on that faction now that its been rebalanced.
@@Immersaholic It may be even tougher now that they only start with one region
@@scautoharpist Perhaps, although one of the big changes is that they now have client states among the Greeks. Your not instantly fighting literally every Greek faction on turn 2. So you have a lot more support now.
@Immersaholic That does help massively!
A good tactic for playing a culture that is not shared by neighbors is to send your missionaries to their regions and give them abilities to spread your culture. this way when you conqur new regions you already have a population pool of your culture which makes recruitment and replenishment faster and you can always keep your army in good fighting shape.
Nice tip!
The Greeks did this historically and were very successful. If they weren’t divided against each other, they would have created an empire as large as Rome’s.
#1 excellent video, love that there is such a passionate and growing DEI community! You asked if there is anything that should be added... I would suggest letting the new players know about the sea supply as well... for anyone reading, the "civilized" factions can build a supply ship. Keep that ship near your army in the sea to prevent attrition. The supply ship can also help supply land armies near the cost. Also keep in mind your navies must dock in 1 of your ports every 8 turns or else they will face attrition as well.
Thanks mate and nice addition indeed! Supply can be critical and I can see how naval supply may frustrate or surprise new players
Once you know the population numbers you know the best place to recruit from. I start a General in a city. Keep him there to build up a couple of levels. I recruit some core units then move the army to provinces that have good cavalry, missal troops and spear units. It a bit time consuming but I found these armies to be very effective. The down side is having a army that you made to fight in Gaul and you take it to the middle east.
Very nice input mate! It’s so interesting to me how moving your general can hve such a big impact. It makes you think about the area he’s in and what troops are available that would’ve been available historically as well
@Thule Magna I'd suggest longer range units but to each their own :)
I had to do that exact thing lol recruited an army in Rome, marched west to come down and take Carthage (they had a strong fleet vs my no fleet lol so I tried to avoid going through Sicily) and after that kept pushing them through Egypt through to Antioch…took forever lol
Planned on starting DEI and can't believe i found this video which address all my question. Thank you!
I'm glad it helped you out mate. If you have any questions please never hesitate to reach out :)
really great job of explaining without omission for people who really need all the details. as an old man i appreciate when someone gives a thorough explanation of game modding!
Even though I’ve been a DEI fan for years, I haven’t played for such a long time now that I think I’ll get some useful insights out of this and refresh my memory! 😂
I really hope I can find some time for DEI again, maybe when this semester ends in March… 👀
I hope you are doing well Immersaholic and I’m looking forward to check out all the changes and new content introduced in DEI. 😎
Good to hear from you my man, hope your doing well and studying your booty off! Got a lot more DEI content coming that I hope you'll enjoy too. Let me know when you get back into the campaigns mate!
this video helped me out so much thank you! I have been wanting to get into this mod for so long!
Wow that’s great mate thanks so much for watching!
Thank you for the clear install instructions.
It's amazing, all this great historical context for free! Great video, thanks, I will try this mod right now!
Thanks mate, I hope you enjoy the mod! Feel free to join our discord and ask questions if you need it
I love the Kimbroz. Their elite axe unit is one of the strongest heavy infantry units in the game, but you can only recruit them as a general's bodyguard. They also have excellent swordsmen and peltasts
I love their roster too! Very fun to use in online battles too 😜
I would go so far as saying they're the best heavy infantry, period. The only axe unit that can go defensive formation and thus a 300 man unit that does +3 bonus vs infantry.
If only they didn't take baby steps on the campaign map they'd be more fun to play. No idea why they decided that dumbass penalty.
@@Userius1 Ah I forgot they are 300 strong too.. Do they have a javelin? They could definitely be a high contender for being among the best. I'm not sure if a single unit can ever hold the title of being THE best heavy infantry. Best axe unit can be done though for sure.
They are certainly a force to be feared. In the early game, they dominate the peasant levies of other Germanic tribes.
Kimbroz also have a heavy sword unit that is superior to anything that Galatia and Rome can produce. 17 attack, 13 melee defence, 38 armour, defensive formation and 52 morale I think. I tested them against praetorians and they triumphed with only 30-40 casualties
Have you played the Scordisci the Cordinau Orca or scordisci elite swords man totally smash everything. Seriously its like a perfect blend of an axe unit and a elite barbarian swords man. They also have a bonus vs Cavs and even elephants. I spent a good solid 3 hours testing them out versus different units. No barbarian swords or even much more expensive roman swords cant defeat them. I even tried them against the Indian faction where they had three elite two handed clubman I forget what they are called and and 3 elite elephants vs 3 of the elite swords man and a spear general. It was epic tbh they won.
Just got into Rome 2 after watching ppl play it forever. Finished a vanilla campaign as the Seleucids on hard and didnt feel too much of a challenge. Just installed this mod super excited to try the changes/narrative campaigns and all for free. Thanks for the guide
So, how is it going?
That’s great mate! If you have ever questions about the mod feel free to ask in the comments or Join my community discord
Great video, thank you!
Perfect introduction to the mod. Thanks for the work mate.
Thanks so much mate!
Brilliant nice to see Divide Et Impera explained ,i leaned some thing new ,great help to all players ,nice one
Thanks mate I’m glad it was helpful!
Good one. Wish I had a vid like this when I got started. Those first couple of campaigns after vanilla and radious were GRIM.
Haha same mate! I love teaching and helping people so I try to think about exactly what I would want to watch or know and then put that into my videos. Cheers!
This is a awesome video about this mod great work man reinstalling right now also looking for other videos like this on other Total War mods just an awesome job
Thanks very much mate! Feel free to comment here or join our discord if you have any questions about the mod
would appreciate this sort of guide but focused on MP as well! I just started playing DEI MP with 4 friends of mine, it's loads of fun.
Absolutely mate! It’s in the backlog of things I want to do guides for 😁
Wonderful video! well done!
Even with lots of experience with DEI I still learn new things from your videos.
Stahhhp ❤️
Now you go study too 😆
Thanks mate. Downloaded today, looking forward to it.
Best of luck! Feel free to join our discord and ask any questions
Amazing video thanks for that just one question if I may how do add graphics to the mod manager is it on top or bottom of Divide Et Impera thanks again .
33:44 Sean Connery mode activated....Shward....:) Thanks for the guide bub :D
At your first launch of Rome 2 after installing DeI mod, you might still get normal Rome 2 screen. So use arrows on the bottom right to switch your campaign set to DeI.
Doesnt work to me
Great video. It sounds funny to me as a Latin descent hearing you pronouncing those names so differently. Triarii we say - tria riii . Patricii we say - pa tri cii . Would be fun to see you trying to say the names properly. Thanks for the video
Maurya are tricky to deal with as Baktria because virtually ALL their core infantry, at least in the early game, has a bonus vs elephants. I learned that the hard way.
Great breakdown. DEI is what makes this game my favorite TW
Thanks mate! I’m the same as you! Forever will be my favorite
Mate great video for dei beginners!
Really like it. For me its 8-9 years to late lol, but nevertheless i enjoyed watching it, cause its very easy for a non native speaker to understand you.
I made some tactic and battle guide Videos (german language) and i presented the mod in a single video, at the moment i am working on a pretty similar beginner guide video for the german speaking audience. Cause especially the older audience isnt always good enough in fluent english.
Keep up the good work! 🙂
Thanks very much mate, good luck with your content! Glad to see DeI being presented in other languages :)
@@Immersaholic Thanks buddy, I've started with tactical videos and a series about mods. I also made a video about DEI there.
Well, the two parts go in depth and explain all the main mechanics. Primarily for beginners. I hope this will make it easier for new players to get started with this great mod.
First. And glad to have a good guide for beginners, will be useful for me trying to get friends to play with me.
Ayyy he got the cookie 😎
This is exactly what the video is tailored for, sometimes it’s easier to just give your mates a link instead of trying to bombard them with too much info
This is perfect, thanks again mate
Thank you mate!
Very cool! This video will help and promote the game, thanks!
Thanks mate! I’m sure you’ll have a lot of tips to add when I do a multiplayer guide, the master of online battles here 😏
@@Immersaholic Thanks but I am far from master on online battles :)
Your game music is awsome. Which mode you use for it?
I have been playing The Total War series for the better part of two decades, but I still needed all the help with this awesome mod!
Glad I could help you out! Feel free to join our discord and ask questions as well
thank you for this guide ! :D
Thank you for watching!
Question about load order: The Mod says on its page part 1 should be above the other two. You contradict that here, which is the case?
I really like Dei mod and normally I’m not much of a mod guy. feels very immersive
Such a great video man, could you do a campaign as the Rashidun Caliphate in 634 fire and swords mod
Thanks so much for the input and video request!
I've never checked out that mod, mods covering the Rashidun Caliphate can be a bit tricky as they sometimes show images of the Prophet (S.A.W.) and his companions. So I'll have to investigate it first, but I hope the mod gives us a fun chance to finally jump into that era of history.
I’m one of those beginners so thanks for the coverage
Welcome to DeI mate!
If you have any questions always feel free to ask in the comments section or join our community discord server, we have a wide range of levels of players from 1000+ hour veterans of DeI to newcomers as well :)
Thanks man. I will start as Rome, it is my first try in dei
Wish you all the best! If you have any questions feel free to join our discord and ask for advice/tips :)
DEI is the only way I can play the game now. Love every aspect of it.
I’m the same! Most other mods can’t compete with the quality here
Hi, i don't know if it's already commented, but you didn't mention the changed Gouverneurs. Great video thou 😊
I loved imperator augustus personally its an amazing campaign for someone who wants to jump into the augustan and imperial period without declaring war on 100 different barbarian nations.
ROME 2 DEI is a great mod where more in depth for politics, population, supplies for army, weather factor etc where wish was more indepth for these factors. however for me doesn't address two of the most fundamental issues in the grand campaign. this being the lack of towns and cities in the grand campaign map. there are keys towns and cities that need to be added. they are in certain campaigns like caser and gaul, rise of the republic and wrath of Sparta/ Greece but this those campaigns only deal with a small part of the known world. i know what the response going to be that the game only allows a certain amount of town and cities but still it needs to be sorted. the other factors that ties into the amount of town and cities is the deck of units in each army. where can only recruit 20 units in a pack. with the pack being in effect a legion and we all know how big a legion was. the standard thing is to increase the amount in each unit but with that you lose maneuver, there is a mod i used a while ago where you could increase the units from 20 to 70 units or more in a pack but with that due to the lack of cities and towns you cant support multiple legions that size.
In my game it is working perfectly fine in natural loading order, part 1 coming first, part 2 - second, etc.
So the mods load with part 3 first, then part 2, then part 1?. I see in the load order you have part 3 as "14" being the lowest order number out of the 3 mods... is this correct?
Do you still need to changed your army-stand to stop them from eating the food on all the region ????
Hello ! i enjoy the dimplomacy system in vanilla , is this mod gona have any efects on dimplomacy ? ( like less loyal vassals and moretreachery ) thanks for the answer
Gday mate!
The diplomacy is somewhat the same as vanilla in that on normal difficulty the ai is nice and will do agreements with you but on hard and very hard you’ll see more treachery and resistance against diplomacy
tanks, needed a update on the supply system. been a couple years since i played
Thank you for this bro I just bought the game and downloaded divide et impera
Best of luck mate! If you have any questions about it feel free to join our discord, we have a large variety of experience from people :)
@@Immersaholic thank you I’ll check it out now
Good into to DEI. Thanks
Good guide, the only one before u was from the official team of DEi with a potato microphone 😂
Is besieging attrition still a thing?
I know, it´s 1 year ago this video, but I have only one question,..i played all Total War games and I am new in DEI, on which difficulty would you play as experience player in TW´s, but new in DEI? Thank you!
Normal difficulty, dei mod designed for normal, but I'm sure you have try it
I've watched plenty of your video's but I've FINALLY brought myself to download DEI ! Ever since the Greek Cities in the original Rome I've been a sucker for Greek history and playthroughs, are there any Greek factions that you recommend for DEI beginners? Or is it better for me to start elsewhere?
Nice mate have fun! For Hellenic style factions I’d recommend Bactria or Egypt as they are very easy campaigns. Athens is fun but tricky and Sparta is very hard in that you don’t get many actual Spartans.
Pergamon would be good for a average difficulty campaign too
@@Immersaholic Thankyou!
Baktria and seleukid are the strongest and Baktria because of the location more easy
When I hover over population/supplies nothing shows up.
Need help i followed all the steps but my rome 2 still runs in vanilla
If you want to play multiplayer make sure you have part 1,2,3 in order! and that you have same submods as your opponent.
Yes excellent note! I plan to do a guide covering this and multiplayer very soon too!
Make sure you do the manual download from there website
@@King.Leonidas I recommend that too but its not 100% required to do sp or mp.
Any1 know how to get 41 unit stack its confusing for me to go through files what not then saveparser whatever it is ect i want it to do it easy way like mod workshop what mod do i have to subscribe ?
Just subscribed bud. Thank you for the video, I'm looking to get into DEI here very soon on my channel!
G'day mate cheers! Enjoy your foray into the mod, once I did I couldn't go back to vanilla!
DEI doesn’t load when the game starts it just loads the vanilla version. I’ve done the order shown in this video and no other mods included. I’m honestly kinda lost.
This is amazing.
Your amazing !
Yeah I posted on the mod page on steam & one of the authors got back to me… part 1 goes at the top, followed by part 2, then part 3 at the bottom
I used to play this mod all of the time. Came back to play it again after the recent upgrades and the starting economy is minus 7000 to 11,000!!
Even after upgrading farms, ports etc and making numerous trade deals, I remain 5000 in debt and become bankrupt from the off.
You play as Rome?
hi... this is a really great beginners guide. btw, I always make specialized provinces like for military recruitment, food province, manufacture/mining, etc.
but the problem is I never get a good supply of high classed citizens and foreigners for my military provinces since i need them a lot, even after I built a lot of specific buildings for that and also tweak a few "building_effect" with pfm for buffing the 1st and 4th % citizen population a lot, but somehow its not really impact their specific "building %" growth factors. you have a solution for this?
Adjusting the tax level can really impact certain classes. The lower the tax then the more citizens you’ll keep. Also research technologies that help your pop go up early on
@@Immersaholic my taxes already set at the lowest, the food in the province is a surplus, I even use Latium as my military province since it have the capital bonus, full building slots are maxed out and built for barracks and a few temple of mars. the ports already turned into fisheries to support the food supply and all of the building level are maxed out. and yet, the patricii pops only increase +10 people, +200 for perigini, but the plebs is over +1000 people per turn, even after I tweaked the "building_effect" to only buff the 1st and 4th citizens.
and the weird part is the other provinces have around 200+ of increased 1st citizen pops even when I'm not using buffed buildings.
so now I don't know what to do to get it for my military province.. ☹️
Why don't I have this yet? I know what I'm doing after work lol
I just started my India campaign and its fun
8:53 Shouldn't the load order be part 1, part 2 and part 3 and not 3, 2 and 1?
hey quick question if anybody happens to know. I noticed during the Custom Battle army selection screen, That I have approximately half of the available factions for the Grand Campaign. Granted, I dont have all of the DLC. Is this the only reason for my lack of possible factions?, or could it have anything to do potentially with my mod load order, or something else I may be overlooking?
It is lack of DLC mate. Quite a few factions are locked behind DLC. I recommend getting them during sales. They happen quite frequently and you'll see the DLC go down to being just a few bucks each quite often.
How does Rome 2 with DEI mod fare on newer computers? Is there a difference at all...like having 41 armies being laggy the same or not....loading saved games loading quicker or same etc.
Thanks for answering in advance.
Newer pcs will have a far better time running it. It’s a cpu intense game so if you have a good one it’ll help massively
Can i get DEI not to change the troops icons/pictures?
I have a question planning on buying my first laptop , and i dont know any about how steam works, but im asking does this mods have some charges once you subscribed after buying the rome 2 pack ... im new to this games things on steam.. thank you
The mod is completely free, you just have to download steam, and then on the steam store buy the Rome 2 base game.
@@Immersaholic ohh wow I cant hardly believe i know about that , thank you for the answer looking forward to it to play been waiting so long to play this game ... because of poverty cant afford such this things , but nearly soon enough my childhood dreams will be healed
What campaign difficulty is recommended for this mod? I've noticed on H and VH the AI get some huge bonuses for income.
Usually either normal or hard camping difficulty depending on your experience with the mod. But keep battles on Normal otherwise the stats can get broken.
Hi great Video.
They made a lots if cool changes, i love how they improoft the combat, now my elephants feel mighty again...however, im new to rome 2 so a lot of this whole Population and suply stuff is annoying, is there a sub mod for dei thats makes things a little less annoying?
There is definitely submods that either remove those features or at least make it so they aren't a problem at all.
To be honest if you just play on normal difficulty those systems really don't slow you down all that much for most factions.
@@Immersaholic can you name one of those mods, just in case?
@@konighartzderiv.4898 I wouldn't really have any idea sorry mate. I know the actual DEI team has posted their own mods to help make it easier, so just go to the steam workshop and check out the mods they've posted :)
Hey immer can u show me how u can do 41 unit stack easy way what mod workshop to subscribe?
Changing the stack parser editor is super simple, I was scared at first too but once you do it the first time your set mate.
I’ll see if I can make some time to do a short video about it soon 🤓
Very useful
Thanks mate!
The senate demands that you remake this video and pronounce the mod name correctly!
I AM.. THE SENATE!
@@Immersaholic Not yet.
About to jump in 2024. Better this or Shogun 2 Master of Strategy mod?
I don't know the other mod but I imagine both are great with very different settings. It just depends if you wanna be in Europe or Japan, DeI is still fantastic and is still being updated/worked on :)
I installed the mod from steam and when on on the campaign map where the population number should be it says 'dy' when I hover over the icons related to the population nothing comes up.
Also when starting a new campaign I click the Qritani culture I only have the option to select the Icenic faction nothing else. Any help would be appreciated.
Using no other mods only DEI parts 1-3
Are you playing in English? I’d say make sure you are. That and you need a legal copy of the game.
Besides that I’d say try a complete clean install of the game in case there is an issue with mods, wipe the setting folder too
@@Immersaholic Yes im playing in english it is a legal copy. I will try doing a clean install hopefully that works
@@Jose-si7td Best of luck friend! Sucks your having trouble. If that doesn't work I'd suggest for you to join my discord of the official DeI discord to ask around in the community for tech help :)
im a veteran tw player but my first campaign with colchis in dei wasa kind of disaster, i fucked up against kartli and bosphorus then i bankrupted and quit the campaign, is colchis that hard or?
Colchis is definitely very hard mate. I know you said your a vet to TW but if your newer to DeI I’d recommend try a campaign as Bosphorus. It’s in the same region but a lot more manageable
I get so frustrated with the initial 2 front war as rome. I haven't been able to win because as soon as I take both my armies to either one of the enemy capitols, one of them takes a city from me and I'm bankrupted. The ai is so good and I simply can't stand losing like this, as I play strategy games so often and believe myself to be generally very good at them. One of my biggest problems is that stationing troops in a town will lower public order and cause rebellion, which I think is very odd and means I can only defend the towns by reinforcing in battle. Which in turn means I'm fighting back into my town with hastati after it's taken by an army of elephants and hoplites. Very challenging for me and I would appreciate any tips to help my situation.
Maybe because in fact of history, Roman Republican hates to have any of their general bring the armies into the city.
Ok, I'm suggesting you to focus on Latium at first stage of campaign
Dei needs any dlc ?
Do i need all the DLC for Rome 2 or just the base game for this ?
You can play without any dlc, you’ll just be missing on being able to play certain factions.
According to the mod on steam workshop you got the order wrong Part 1 must be above the two others meaning it should be.
1
2
3
isnt your mod load order wrong? part 1 is meant to be top
Do you use the benjin AAA general mod ?
Yes, all of my submods are listed in the description of all my videos
Damn this game is beating my ass. I was playing as Rome, holding off Epirus and yo-yoing back and forth with them for a couple hours and the fucking Etruscans just came down from up north and starting absolutely bodying me. I have no clue what I'm doing ngl this plays so much different than vanilla Rome 2 and Attila, or even 1212AD
For me theres 1 downside, the more turns im in the longer the wait. At turn 140 ending the turn took at least 3 minuts. Loading a load campaign takes 5 minutes.
Might be my old laptop s problem tho
It definitely is your old laptop being the problem. Although for me end turns can get up to a minute. My cpu is quite old though
I tried this mods i have 1 2 and 3 now also use crazy unit size 600 but after few turns on rhodes it crashed :( any1 know why or whats cursing this
Probably because your units are so massive mate. It would mess with the game id imagine
@@Immersaholic yeah true ill just turn that crazy unit off
should i play this instead of vanilla? it's my first time playing rome 2 but i have played other total wars before like shogun
I would say yes :) Even if your brand new to Rome 2 you can still jump into the mod and have a great time. It's not a steep learning curve in my opinion. Just be prepared to know that battles happen more slowly, and campaigns can be slightly tougher than vanilla since you recruit units from an actual population now.
@@Immersaholic thanks i will try it
Is there a submod that keeps DeI's campaign system but makes battles more like vanilla? I don't mind some more complexity in the campaign but I don't want 30+ minute battles for every battle.
Yes, the DeI team has a submod out that makes battles faster. You can look for it on steam or ask on their discord. It’s a mod that is specific to DeI and should just be titled “faster battles” or something like that.
I play with the Dei “faster movement” submod and the “faster battles” submod and the battles are about 5-10 minutes at the beginning of the campaign.
@@Immersaholic Very cool, I'll check it out. Much appreciate the response and the video. Cheers!
@@angrypandable Thanks, I appreciate the heads up!
You know what my problem is?
I follow you advice but i am sure not good enough to do hard but i still not give up
Even i feel my campagin end around 5 to 10
So i think about to just play normal first but again pride !
I’d recommend playing just normal or even easy if it’s still hard for you mate
wtf the load order is from bottom to top?
Why can’t I play as sparta? Do I have to buy the dlc for it to show in Grand Campaign?
@immersaholic
Yes you do, that is the case for several different factions.
@@Immersaholic okay tnx!
how is the formation mod you used??
It’s great mate, I plan to do a video covering it in the near future once I experience it more
i buy rtw2 2020 and 2023 still played
Can u do co op campaign
Not sure if your asking me to do it on the channel or just in general 🤔 But if you mean in genera then yes you can
I don't have some of ghe factions you have there. Do you know why that might be? I've downloaded all three parts
You must not have some of the DLCs. It’s a Rome 2 thing mate. Some factions are locked behind it
@@Immersaholic ah... Ye that makes sense. Thanks. Didn't expect a reply because of how long ago u made it
I do my best to keep an eye on comments mate. CZcams isn’t the best at notifying me but I do what I can. You can also always join our discord if you have more questions 🤓