Not sure how I found this video, but I’m glad I did. Never seen this mod before and haven’t played Rome 2 in years. This is definitely worth making a return to the game, considering it was one of my favourite total war games ever.
Definitely do some more DEI videos, I could do with the detailed aspects too as I am completely new to it having played Rome 2 for years. And I liked the music, I say keep it! :-)
I'm 230 turns into my latest Rome campaign in DEI and its honestly amazing. It takes Rome 2 from a 'meh' game to a top tier game where each campaign can be 30-60 hours or even more and not get stale once. The only issue I see with this video is that supplies aren't really a problem until you get 2-3 armies camping in a chokepoint or a siege for too long and even then supply takes a while to degrade and you can see its level. So supply depots really are not a vital consideration, plus the farm tier grain depot works fine and doesn't waste a main city slot. Supply SHIPS though absolutely are important if you're a naval power you'll want one per fleet just in case. I've also noticed that sadly the max imperium level still has -15 political party loyalty despite claiming to be -35 loyalty. I was looking forward to a spicy civil war to end my game but I guess I have to force it with some purges :D Oh another thing I remembered. Empire maintenance is insanely punishing... for heavens sake don't let it climb above 50% at any point. I give all my admirals maintenance reductive traits as well as my agents which are far easier and more numerous until late game. A few early generals dedicated to more public order, maintenance reduction, culture spread style trait allocations can really smooth out a lot of problems and refine your economy while also ensuring good public order doesn't similarly ruin said economy. And make sure you promote women to rank 4 as each one is -1% empire maintenance. Speaking of agents I have a spy whose trait is +20% army move speed and then the full tree that further buffs move speed... on my faction leader with maxed out move speed traits in a legion with you guessed it move speed legion buffs. That army literally moves like lightning to strike anywhere in the Empire and it's glorious. You get a lot of depth with agents and character skills that can be really useful and fill specific niches to the point where I barely use agents for campaign functions like assassination at all and have been known to invade friendly, subjugated factions simply because they keep parking their version of governors in my territory ruining my nice friendly romanisation efforts with their cultural conversion rates. On difficult settings. START the game whatever difficult you want BUT change the battle difficulty manually to normal while in the campaign via the escape menu. Even on just hard difficulty roman legionaries will struggle to kill militia. But thankfully this is the only difficulty setting you can edit in game so you can actually start on any difficulty and change the battles to normal.
i am not able to change my mod to DEI my version is "cracked"....you please could y send me the game with the mod full in DEI...i love this game ....tks a lot ,,,do you have a link to me download ?
@@jaeger9654 lol no, TW ill give u... coz its apples and fish, u cant compare historical to fantasy, its a matter of personal preference. But three kingdoms is just shit... the improved diplomacy at the expense of strategy... in a strategy game. Thats some big brain move if u ask me...
I played rome 2 for about 10 hours 1-2 years ago and it was nice, but I got bored quickly. But seeing this mod I feel like if I were to download it and play this game again but moddes this time, I might actually have found another game to add to my list of games I return to whnever Im bored and play it for a month every year for the rest of my life
It is a great mod for players who like micromanagement which is what this mod focuses on apart from new units. In vanilla, TW games are meant to be strategy games without micromanagement. This mod not everyone's cup of tea. The level of unnecessary micromanagement in this mod may be very satisfying for hardcore grand strategy players who look for depth like Europa Universalis, but this mod will be too overwhelming for casual players who just want to have a relaxing time with some strategy and historical flavor without having to worry about too many unnecessary things. So that is why these videos are very important to watch to make the decision if this mod is for you or not.
The DEI patch mentioned in the comment is actually really good but it takes the unique stamina system and gives all units the same stamina witch impacts alot of factions because exhaustion is a big issue in DEI battles.
Great mod. 2 times i stopped because it was too much. But now after sone of yor videos i am in right now i think. Naval battle was a no go for me but here also some guides and now this is also good playble.
@@TheTerminatorGaming I didn't realize you were so new to making videos for YT. IMO you have a lot of ability and a good vocal tone and mature approach & delivery. I hope you will do well.
I made the mistake of playing on the hardest difficulty setting (unwittingly) and suffered a great deal for it. I almost rage quit. Do yourselves a favour and play normal difficulty, it's much much more entertaining and still very challenging
I'm nearly in tears. I've started as kush and I've finally beat aksum beneath but the empire to the north is sending wave after wave after me. I have a shortage of food and gold; there are constant rebellions and low public order, my men are diseased also, so my population is being decimated by all this. I fought off the invaders with my single army for the third time and left with around 1500 men. but now the A.I has sent another army to attack aksum, as I have no one there. I want to cry... My dream is too take Egypt then eventually move on to Rome, but I don't think we're going to make it out of kush. :( I'm just going to have to leave aksum for now and try and muster more forces with mercenaries after a few turns but, without taxes, it will be impossible and by then, the A.i will have sent two more armies. Aww I've messed up so bad but I know I can turn it all around just got to hold out. Ha I need allies but, nobody wants to trade or even talk without gold. I've sent my spies to keep looking. Hopefully they'll pull through. This games awesome with this mod. It was already brilliant but now its something else entirely. I actually care more for the political side of things and war becomes the last thing on your mind which is actually paradoxical to the game's premise but its so true. Every decision has minor positives or grave consequences. Great vid btw. Liked and subbed. Keep it up! 👌👍
Hey bud thanks for watching & really glad you enjoyed it! Happy to help :) More guides coming including an awesome submod guide I'm working on so stay tuned!
The music itself isn't the problem so much as the levels of the music. It helps dead space get filled while in turn helping you lead into and out of your script. Love the content love stumbling on these gems of channels.
TheTerminator: This is one of the vanilla version mistakes: When you disband a general or an admiral, he instantaneously loses all the skills he had developed. And when you need to recruit him again later, you have to develope the skills again. But fortunately DEI fixed that mistake.
The dude the music is so bad, please never again. Thanks for the content. Getting back into Total War b.c of the recent sale. I am 100% doing Divde Et Impera bc I got bored after 20 min in vanilla Rome 2
Well structured guide my man, thanks for putting it out there. The quality of the mods is the only reason for TW games to be honest, DeI has been wiping the floor with me as Rome twice now on higher campaign difficulties atm but can't wait to deal with issues of far off occupation, culture shifting, rebellions/civil wars, supply etc.
Thanks dude! Oh yeah Rome is actually more difficult than you think even on normal! So much can go wrong haha. Glad you enjoyed the video mate, more to come :)
Make sure you beeline your Northern enemies first and put a holding force in the South. Epirus can only attack one or the other settlements down there, but can reach the middle one in a single turns movement so camp outside that city (forget the name) to its South and keep a spy checking if they move fully South and if they do then match them. Take out your northern Itallic foe then turn south and have your full stack join with your now half stack in the South and slog it out against Epirus and the elephant led full stack plus garrison. That's what works for me anyway but do be aware the Ittalic enemy you're at war with will hire mercenaries if you don't first and these are STRONG phalanx hoplites. You will need to outflank them with your javelins there's almost no other way to kill them. Most solid start you can get militarily and economically I'm pretty sure. Oh and if civil wars are an issue (check early) you have 20 turn civil war protection. So save 10,000 denars and change government from Republic to Kingdom around turn 11-15. The massive -20 loyalty and -20 public order to all settlements penalty decays by -2 per turn and you have full 100% civil war protection until turn 20. Cheesy? Perhaps. But if you roll an absolutely trash party with awful stats you may have to invest the early 10k to flip away from the Republics massive loyalty penalty. I think I remember the net gain of going Kingdom was +15 loyalty over republic.
Quick question guys: I always play on VH/VH for vanila total. I want to go on a Rome campaign, should I go VH/VH on DEI or go for a lower difficult? Because I don’t have that much time and don’t want to be stuck in a hopeless campaign nor do I want to steamroll from turn 50 lol
‚Unfortunately‘, DeI Battles are just balanced around normal. That means higher difficulties will mess up everything and the AI get a huge and unfair bonus. Which will be a pain in the a***... unless you like pain... 😅
Having trouble with difficulty settings. Tried with easy but it doesn't seem to work because 3 turns into the campaign as Rome and Pregamus attacked me full force with elephants and huge armies... A little frustrating and I think the difficulty settings isn't being applied. Not new to total war I have played it for a long time and played at Normal difficulty and had no issues. Love DEI but can't get past 5 turns, any ideas?
Hi mate awesome!! I would recommend playing vanilla rome 2 first just to get a feel for the basics, and then try the mod after your first campaign :) I’d absolutely suggest you familiarise yourself with all the changes and mechanics the mod adds as well, population and the supply systems being the main ones :) let me know if you have any questions! Or watch my other guides!
hey guys I haven't been able to find anything on the forums about this, so that's why i'm asking here? Why is there no other port city exept for genoa on the western side of the italian peninsula ? In Vanilla rome2 there was Neapolis. Is there a mod to fix this? because I find it extremely stupid that I cant dock fleets on the left side of italy in the early game...
Because they added new cities and so there were too many port cities Basically Rome didn’t do navy until they took over Syracuse so it was also trying to represent that as well And there’s a whole bunch of cities in Italy so it became too OP to add another port city as well, a way to nerf them as well basically
Thank you so much for this review. Just got the game and mod, I am overwhelmed (What did I get myself into ...???). This will help with game play I am sure.
I haven’t done part 2 yet, mainly because I realised DEI is far better than any of the other overhaul mods 😂😂 but I’ll be covering others like radius or AE for Attila in separate videos :)
with rome you start with a 44 year old with no kids who would be faction leader after he dies? how does republic government work is there voting involved or whover has highest influence becomes ruling famly? i cant even remember how it is done in vanilla
Diplomatic: I think the ai is stupid, when playing lower than very hard. I mean as Naabata, pretty much all my neighbours wanted trade agreement and non-agression pact and paid much for it. ANd that on hard:D Seondly, did the supply camel got kicked out of the game? I cannot recruit it.
I’m really new to the game in general, like barely have the basics down in campaign mode. Does anyone recommend me playing the vanilla game first to get my knowledge up? Or just download the mod and learn through that?
Thank you for making this video. One question. Unit cards, mercenary cards have small black crossed swords in lower left corner. Some recruitable units have black (looks like washboards) in lower left corner. What does this mean?
Hi mate! So the black cards at the bottom left of the unit card just denote what kind of unit it is: - A golden ring is Auxiliary units (reformed) - The X looking card is Mercenary units - The washboard card is AOR units
divide of impera makes rome2 the best , with sub mods and gore and blood ,a joy ,but u need ssd and good ram , or u will have to wait 30 minutos for every time u charge campaign map jaja
I went back into Rome 2 for the first time in six years and first time doing DEI and smart me goes, ah, I normally play these games on legendary, I should be fine on Very Hard. 2 hours later: Why are there so many enemy armies and why are they not dying in combat 😂
Hey bud! Early on I always make a point of recruiting generals from my family and sending members of opposing factions on diplomatic missions. They eventually end up dying and so it never gets to a civil war :D
@@TheTerminatorGaming Aha Thanks ! (murder 🧐) - Thus is in the new Dei the Civil war still present ? Nerfed ? - I am actually "lazy" and kind of ill (age ...) - I have a sub-mod www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?668226-(sub-mod)-Less-Civil-War that deals with this by adjusting the parameters, years in-between and so on, so while the CW is present, makes it ok-ish and more of a mid/lame game adventure. After 6 years I will eventually dive into this again , but requires some energy that I have less and less... (don't cry for me 😜) - It is nice and makes me proud to see this new generation of players; you guys are awesome !
Are there any good mods to pair with this? I always use 1 turn mods to speed up campaigns but I feel like that would ruin this experience. I just hate waiting 5 turns+ to finish a single building and then like 10 turns on 1 technology
what problem i have , i get crash sometimes , i get black ui ,i mean some parts of the screen are either black or transparent , also enemies cant use the ladders to get into my walls wtf
I don't know what's wrong with the newest version of divide et impera but military allies just standby watching as enemy forces destroy my armies.. plus when armies are together reinforcing each other, the AI can attack one army with 2-3 armies of their own with my other army just watching, without reinforcing
Hi mate! Yes it absolutely does. It generally makes them slower through buffed armour but I’d recommend you go on the DEI website and get a good look for yourself, they’ve changed loads of things about battles :)
With 500 hours in Rome 2. I played this and its great it took me soooo long just to get out of greece playing as macedon. Its crazy unbalanced. If 1 factions goes to war with you it just snowballs. You will be at war with so many factions. Public order and money are out of balance. You can either have constant rebels or be poor depending on what you build. I find myself just sitting in my cities with armies waiting 10 to 20 turns just defending while i get enough growth to build a building to have some money. Worst part is. Because diplomacy,economy and order are so unbalanced your always at war with everyone and can only afford to feild 2 or 3 armies even if you have 6 plus cities. Even still you will be poor.
Hey man. I have been posting this on forums but I haven't made any progress so I'll just copy and paste my forum post here in hopes of someone might have an answer or idea. I am getting many different visual glitches and bugs after battles. The worst one soft locks the game because I can't press anything. I have tried to do a clean install of the game, deleting the hidden %appdata% folder, deleting all fragments of previous mods I have been using in the past along with all "pak." files, cleaned my Steam download cache and verified the cache many times. And also noticed that I had forgotten to check the Run "movie" and "release" pack mods and Run user script mods options. Checking those and restarted did nothing. I have no clue what would fix this problem as I have done EVERYTHING I can think off. I am using the 3 parts of DEI and these Sub Mods and they are in the "correct" order: "DeI - Slower Battles" "It's a Small World After All" "Dresden's Sack, Liberation and Diplomatic Options Mod" Help would be VERY much appreciated.
Hi mate! Sorry to hear your troubles with the mod. "It's a small world after all" is not DEI compatible so try it without this one & "Dresden's Sack, Liberation and Diplomatic Options Mod" apparently has a DEI compatible version so make sure you're using that one. If that doesn't work it sounds like it might be an issue on your PC. Make sure all your software has the latest updates? You should definitely join the official discord discord.gg/Wez6GSY, they have a technical section you can ask there as well :) Hope this helps!
@@TheTerminatorGaming Appreciate it mate. I did narrow it down to it being an issue with the sub mods so what you say makes alot of sense. I'll check the discord out :)
This is a very light survey of this game and mod. If you are a beginner and trying to learn something about this game and this mod this is not helpful at all. It spends about 50% of its time telling you how great the mod is. You will have to look elsewhere to find how to play it.
Thanks , and for example if we have Hannibal at the gates installed and we install over DEI , will the DLC take DEI effects like skins and other features that it has ?
@@TheTerminatorGaming So I didn't conquer enough provinces to upgrade my navy to take on Carthage. So I conquered Sicilly, snuck around to conquer Corsica, while the Carthage navy AI was distracted I rushed troops after 3 failed attempts and burnt Carthage to the ground. So far so Scipio- without the navy. However, after conquering Africa the DEI recruitment system means I have no Hastati only low tier mercenaries. No match for swarms of Numideans who kicked me out of Africa. Not only that but Greece was conquered by various celtic tribes and have now taken half of Italia. I've basically made Mussolinis empire not Rome lol. Not good enough troops to conquer provinces up north to get better troops via the Imperium System. And with the Celts taking half of Italy- no food & smelly Celts have given my troops plague. 😑
And the Celts were able to sail over to Italia- because I have no upgraded navy. That's the one thing I don't like about DIE system. The Roman army becomes too reliant on Mercenaries. On the other hand DIE unit diversity is so pretty...I keep coming back for more. We've all known a girl like that. Hahaha
@@cshelley5658 Alright so first of all, I'll be doing a Rome guide pretty soon (when the next DEI update is out) so that will absolutely help you, but for now here are my thoughts:; 1. As Rome you need to avoid confrontation with Carthage for as long as possible until you have A. 2 or 3 almost full stack armies (2 should be enough) B. 1-2 decent sized navies (1 should be enough). You don't need to recruit expensive units. Go for mostly auxiliary or early stuff 2. You need to conquer northern Italy OR Greece. That way you have enough income to fund your armies & navies 3. As Rome your troops will always be good enough to take on other factions, you just need to know how to use them (take a look at my battle guide for some tips -czcams.com/video/P3gdHhkBfFQ/video.html) Now that being said you want to salvage the campaign which while difficult probably isn't impossible. First off you have Africa which is good. Build up Auxiliary barracks in your provinces and start building armies made of auxiliaries there. They should hold against numidians, and if you're having trouble with them rely on a front like of spearmen and archers to take down their cavalry. By the sound of things you don't have much control over Italy so don't worry about losing it, but if you can commit 1-2 armies to defending your cities that would be ideal. lastly, you need a navy. You won't get anywhere without a navy destroying their navies and armies crossing the various seas. I'm doing a naval battle guide today but what you basically need to do is RAM THEM! Don't bother shooting arrows, going for naval superiority or better units, just get cheap decent units to go ram them. Once you've secured Africa a bit more, move some armies over to Italy and recapture lost lands and your golden. Hope it works out and let me know if you have any questions!
Sorry, but can you help me one more time? Do you konw same kind of mods to delete heroes form this Game? I cant expirence this Bullshit running behind my Stecks!
Can somebody give me the guide to install divide et impera mod please? (Yeah I Googled it but couldn't do it anyways- I have RTW2 from steam so any help?)
@@petercrash9670 Its one the Steam workshop, type this (Divide et Impera Part 1) and its three parts. Next start up the game go the mod manager and activate it.
@@kingmarre9130 yeah. I am waiting for my brother to give me his steam codes. I am an old man now. I am used to the older installation methods of MED2 and RTW1 by cursing and crushing. Thanks though.
Fair enough bud. I would say give it a try cause it adds so much depth and personality to the game and is as polished as a normal game would be so not many bugs really. And you can just remove the mods easily if you don't like it :)
This game was a source of problems and bugs at release until the modders started improving it. I can't imagine 900 hours without sampling some of the best the community has to offer.
How the fuck does this mod work? My legionaries break and run fighting militia at very hard difficulty. Also, why is half the world is war with me and never agree for peace even if I give them 100000
"DeI Performance Patch" is essential to gain +15-25 fps in battle.
Is the performance patch a mod i have to get or is it already an upgrade within the overhaul itself?
@@403902 Thanks for the info, have a good one friend.
@@403902 Thanks
Thank you
@@redtheftauto You don't need it anymore, its been integrated in to the main mod
Not sure how I found this video, but I’m glad I did. Never seen this mod before and haven’t played Rome 2 in years. This is definitely worth making a return to the game, considering it was one of my favourite total war games ever.
You absolutely should mate! :)
as someone who just started getting into dei, this is amazing. glad it showed up on my recommendations!
Hey Gene Ko! Thanks for watching! Glad to have helped, and more to come soon :)
In 13min you've explained the mechanics better than other 45min vids. Subscribed!
Thanks dude! Much appreciated! 🙌
Good Guide! I hope you can add more after this since I rarely see people make guide recently for DEI, so this helps a lot!
Hey Edrick LIM! Thanks dude more to come soon 👍
Yes, please
Started as the Bosporan Kingdom and the steppe cavalry handed me my ass in the very first battle. Love it.
Definitely do some more DEI videos, I could do with the detailed aspects too as I am completely new to it having played Rome 2 for years. And I liked the music, I say keep it! :-)
Hey Luke! Thanks for the feedback really appreciate it! More videos coming soon :)
I'm 230 turns into my latest Rome campaign in DEI and its honestly amazing. It takes Rome 2 from a 'meh' game to a top tier game where each campaign can be 30-60 hours or even more and not get stale once. The only issue I see with this video is that supplies aren't really a problem until you get 2-3 armies camping in a chokepoint or a siege for too long and even then supply takes a while to degrade and you can see its level. So supply depots really are not a vital consideration, plus the farm tier grain depot works fine and doesn't waste a main city slot. Supply SHIPS though absolutely are important if you're a naval power you'll want one per fleet just in case. I've also noticed that sadly the max imperium level still has -15 political party loyalty despite claiming to be -35 loyalty. I was looking forward to a spicy civil war to end my game but I guess I have to force it with some purges :D
Oh another thing I remembered. Empire maintenance is insanely punishing... for heavens sake don't let it climb above 50% at any point. I give all my admirals maintenance reductive traits as well as my agents which are far easier and more numerous until late game. A few early generals dedicated to more public order, maintenance reduction, culture spread style trait allocations can really smooth out a lot of problems and refine your economy while also ensuring good public order doesn't similarly ruin said economy. And make sure you promote women to rank 4 as each one is -1% empire maintenance. Speaking of agents I have a spy whose trait is +20% army move speed and then the full tree that further buffs move speed... on my faction leader with maxed out move speed traits in a legion with you guessed it move speed legion buffs. That army literally moves like lightning to strike anywhere in the Empire and it's glorious. You get a lot of depth with agents and character skills that can be really useful and fill specific niches to the point where I barely use agents for campaign functions like assassination at all and have been known to invade friendly, subjugated factions simply because they keep parking their version of governors in my territory ruining my nice friendly romanisation efforts with their cultural conversion rates.
On difficult settings. START the game whatever difficult you want BUT change the battle difficulty manually to normal while in the campaign via the escape menu. Even on just hard difficulty roman legionaries will struggle to kill militia. But thankfully this is the only difficulty setting you can edit in game so you can actually start on any difficulty and change the battles to normal.
i am not able to change my mod to DEI my version is "cracked"....you please could y send me the game with the mod full in DEI...i love this game ....tks a lot ,,,do you have a link to me download ?
@@LEON-oj6rp LOL
Great vid! I thought the background music was a bit too loud. Hope you continue to cover TW
Hey thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed it! More TW videos coming next week :)
Best mod ever.
If you are into historical and realism, then this is the best mod for you.
Rome 2 + DeI is better than anything that has come after it.
Classic tw warhammer 2 or three kingdom is better
@@jaeger9654 lol no, TW ill give u... coz its apples and fish, u cant compare historical to fantasy, its a matter of personal preference. But three kingdoms is just shit... the improved diplomacy at the expense of strategy... in a strategy game. Thats some big brain move if u ask me...
@@ogaburan this. The saga games are even worse.
@@jaeger9654 WH2 is a Moba
Just asking why every girl in rome 2 is black?
I played rome 2 for about 10 hours 1-2 years ago and it was nice, but I got bored quickly.
But seeing this mod I feel like if I were to download it and play this game again but moddes this time, I might actually have found another game to add to my list of games I return to whnever Im bored and play it for a month every year for the rest of my life
Did you play it?
@@firingallcylinders2949 Yep, but I got bored and dont think Ill be playing that game again
@@asdfgasdfg8006 what did you find boring?
@@firingallcylinders2949 Nothing, it was a fun mod that I played for too long without a break, it wasn't difficult either. I recommend it
Damnnn the background music is killing me
This mod IMO makes Rome II the best Total War game. I can play for hours and not get bored.
Agreed!! So so good 💪
@@TheTerminatorGaming I'm doing an Alexander campaign right now and it's not for the faint of heart. Non stop Persian doom stacks.
Nice! Yeah I need to try it again it’s been a while :)
It is a great mod for players who like micromanagement which is what this mod focuses on apart from new units. In vanilla, TW games are meant to be strategy games without micromanagement. This mod not everyone's cup of tea. The level of unnecessary micromanagement in this mod may be very satisfying for hardcore grand strategy players who look for depth like Europa Universalis, but this mod will be too overwhelming for casual players who just want to have a relaxing time with some strategy and historical flavor without having to worry about too many unnecessary things. So that is why these videos are very important to watch to make the decision if this mod is for you or not.
The DEI patch mentioned in the comment is actually really good but it takes the unique stamina system and gives all units the same stamina witch impacts alot of factions because exhaustion is a big issue in DEI battles.
bro that looped music is making me insane. good video tho
Great mod. 2 times i stopped because it was too much. But now after sone of yor videos i am in right now i think. Naval battle was a no go for me but here also some guides and now this is also good playble.
You make good videos.... but I'm not a fan of that wonky music loop you used in this one; by a minute in it was grating.
Haha sorry mate, it was one of my first videos and I was experimenting. I might make another one without it!
@@TheTerminatorGaming
I didn't realize you were so new to making videos for YT. IMO you have a lot of ability and a good vocal tone and mature approach & delivery. I hope you will do well.
Thank you! Started it back in March, back when I didn’t script and when I used mediocre music haha :)
just leaving a comment. supporting the community
I love how you get to the point give great overview and it wasn’t an hour long lol. Good job!
Thank you ❤️
I made the mistake of playing on the hardest difficulty setting (unwittingly) and suffered a great deal for it. I almost rage quit. Do yourselves a favour and play normal difficulty, it's much much more entertaining and still very challenging
I'm nearly in tears.
I've started as kush and I've finally beat aksum beneath but the empire to the north is sending wave after wave after me. I have a shortage of food and gold; there are constant rebellions and low public order, my men are diseased also, so my population is being decimated by all this.
I fought off the invaders with my single army for the third time and left with around 1500 men. but now the A.I has sent another army to attack aksum, as I have no one there.
I want to cry...
My dream is too take Egypt then eventually move on to Rome, but I don't think we're going to make it out of kush. :(
I'm just going to have to leave aksum for now and try and muster more forces with mercenaries after a few turns but, without taxes, it will be impossible and by then, the A.i will have sent two more armies.
Aww I've messed up so bad but I know I can turn it all around just got to hold out. Ha
I need allies but, nobody wants to trade or even talk without gold. I've sent my spies to keep looking. Hopefully they'll pull through.
This games awesome with this mod.
It was already brilliant but now its something else entirely. I actually care more for the political side of things and war becomes the last thing on your mind which is actually paradoxical to the game's premise but its so true. Every decision has minor positives or grave consequences.
Great vid btw. Liked and subbed. Keep it up! 👌👍
Thanks a bunch :) only videos I’ve seen are 7 months or more old and leaves me with questions as to whether things have changed... THANK YOU 🙏
Hey bud thanks for watching & really glad you enjoyed it! Happy to help :) More guides coming including an awesome submod guide I'm working on so stay tuned!
The music itself isn't the problem so much as the levels of the music. It helps dead space get filled while in turn helping you lead into and out of your script. Love the content love stumbling on these gems of channels.
Thanks for the feedback mate and yep I’ve since dropped the levels of music in my videos 🙌
This mod has made my least favorite Total War title take a spot in the top 3 list
TheTerminator:
This is one of the vanilla version mistakes:
When you disband a general or an admiral, he instantaneously loses all the skills he had developed. And when you need to recruit him again later, you have to develope the skills again. But fortunately DEI fixed that mistake.
This mod is so insanely big, I love it.
Tried to play without dei mod and it waa suddenly a lot more boring
I think you need both the minimum turns AND the required Imperium to trigger a reform not either
Hey Dope Lama you are totally right! Thanks for the pointer!
This music bussin
The dude the music is so bad, please never again. Thanks for the content.
Getting back into Total War b.c of the recent sale. I am 100% doing Divde Et Impera bc I got bored after 20 min in vanilla Rome 2
Haha I know man it was early days and I thought it was ok but it wasn’t 😂 Later videos don’t have this and absolutely never again!
thanks for the videos fam
Great job sir! Very much appreciated.
Well structured guide my man, thanks for putting it out there.
The quality of the mods is the only reason for TW games to be honest, DeI has been wiping the floor with me as Rome twice now on higher campaign difficulties atm but can't wait to deal with issues of far off occupation, culture shifting, rebellions/civil wars, supply etc.
Thanks dude! Oh yeah Rome is actually more difficult than you think even on normal! So much can go wrong haha.
Glad you enjoyed the video mate, more to come :)
Make sure you beeline your Northern enemies first and put a holding force in the South. Epirus can only attack one or the other settlements down there, but can reach the middle one in a single turns movement so camp outside that city (forget the name) to its South and keep a spy checking if they move fully South and if they do then match them. Take out your northern Itallic foe then turn south and have your full stack join with your now half stack in the South and slog it out against Epirus and the elephant led full stack plus garrison. That's what works for me anyway but do be aware the Ittalic enemy you're at war with will hire mercenaries if you don't first and these are STRONG phalanx hoplites. You will need to outflank them with your javelins there's almost no other way to kill them. Most solid start you can get militarily and economically I'm pretty sure. Oh and if civil wars are an issue (check early) you have 20 turn civil war protection. So save 10,000 denars and change government from Republic to Kingdom around turn 11-15. The massive -20 loyalty and -20 public order to all settlements penalty decays by -2 per turn and you have full 100% civil war protection until turn 20. Cheesy? Perhaps. But if you roll an absolutely trash party with awful stats you may have to invest the early 10k to flip away from the Republics massive loyalty penalty. I think I remember the net gain of going Kingdom was +15 loyalty over republic.
Do what you want on ye channel, people like or not, i liked it. Subbed. look forward to more.
Hey English Grandad! Really appreciate the kind words and support! Thank you for the sub, more to come soon :)
Next....Ancient Empires 2.0 Beginners guide.
I'd love to mate! Thanks for the watch hope you enjoyed it!
Nice video dude!
Hands down DEI is one of the greatest mods for Rome II. It definitely saved Rome II as a game and added so much more depth.
Can you play it on windows 10?
@@futureusmc2694 Yes of course man
V nice vid 👍
fantastic .....congratulaciones hombre lol lol
nice
Great guide!
Thanks Marten!
Quick question guys: I always play on VH/VH for vanila total. I want to go on a Rome campaign, should I go VH/VH on DEI or go for a lower difficult? Because I don’t have that much time and don’t want to be stuck in a hopeless campaign nor do I want to steamroll from turn 50 lol
‚Unfortunately‘, DeI Battles are just balanced around normal. That means higher difficulties will mess up everything and the AI get a huge and unfair bonus. Which will be a pain in the a***... unless you like pain... 😅
Just play on Normal. Normal on DeI is VH in vanilla
Thanks!
Is it the DEI mod that makes the game look so good, or do you have other mods to upgrade the visual aspect too?
Submods like HD textures qnd realistic water HD make it look better
Having trouble with difficulty settings. Tried with easy but it doesn't seem to work because 3 turns into the campaign as Rome and Pregamus attacked me full force with elephants and huge armies...
A little frustrating and I think the difficulty settings isn't being applied.
Not new to total war I have played it for a long time and played at Normal difficulty and had no issues.
Love DEI but can't get past 5 turns, any ideas?
Have you got the right load order? It's balanced on Normal so should be what you play on.
Just bought Rome 2 Spartan edition, would you recommend starting the game from scratch with the mod?
Hi mate awesome!! I would recommend playing vanilla rome 2 first just to get a feel for the basics, and then try the mod after your first campaign :) I’d absolutely suggest you familiarise yourself with all the changes and mechanics the mod adds as well, population and the supply systems being the main ones :) let me know if you have any questions! Or watch my other guides!
Where's Part 2 and 3 of this video?
hey guys I haven't been able to find anything on the forums about this, so that's why i'm asking here?
Why is there no other port city exept for genoa on the western side of the italian peninsula ? In Vanilla rome2 there was Neapolis. Is there a mod to fix this? because I find it extremely stupid that I cant dock fleets on the left side of italy in the early game...
Because they added new cities and so there were too many port cities
Basically Rome didn’t do navy until they took over Syracuse so it was also trying to represent that as well
And there’s a whole bunch of cities in Italy so it became too OP to add another port city as well, a way to nerf them as well basically
@@flaviusaetius5701 ah that explains a lot. Thanks man
for me it's the best rome 2 mod, that's what I tell all my subscribers
1000% I honestly don’t think Rome 2 would have survived this long without DEI! 😃
Thanks for this!
You’re welcome!
Thank you so much for this review. Just got the game and mod, I am overwhelmed (What did I get myself into ...???). This will help with game play I am sure.
Glad you enjoyed it and it was helpful! 🙏
Good video but the "music" is awful. Can you remove it? Sorry to the composer/performer.
Very good video but I can't find the part 2 on your youtube channel, am I blind or maybe it's not released yet?
I haven’t done part 2 yet, mainly because I realised DEI is far better than any of the other overhaul mods 😂😂 but I’ll be covering others like radius or AE for Attila in separate videos :)
are you able to do a ThisIsTotalWar on this mod?? or is that not something you can do?
Why is there no playable Cherusci?
02:00 for the actual beginning of the guide
with rome you start with a 44 year old with no kids who would be faction leader after he dies? how does republic government work is there voting involved or whover has highest influence becomes ruling famly? i cant even remember how it is done in vanilla
I am curious which mod won the best mod in 2019 and 2020.
Probably also DEI or Para bellum I heard good things off that mod because it's like vanilla+++ mod. Anyway I love Rome 2 but only with DEI.
Diplomatic: I think the ai is stupid, when playing lower than very hard. I mean as Naabata, pretty much all my neighbours wanted trade agreement and non-agression pact and paid much for it. ANd that on hard:D
Seondly, did the supply camel got kicked out of the game? I cannot recruit it.
Thanks
I’m really new to the game in general, like barely have the basics down in campaign mode. Does anyone recommend me playing the vanilla game first to get my knowledge up? Or just download the mod and learn through that?
Play vanilla first my man :)
@@TheTerminatorGaming appreciate the quick reply bro! Enjoyed the video, will play vanilla first 👍
I hope you play DEI by now..
Thank you for making this video. One question. Unit cards, mercenary cards have small black crossed swords in lower left corner. Some recruitable units have black (looks like washboards) in lower left corner. What does this mean?
Hey man my pleasure :) I'm not 100% sure I'll have a look and let you know!
Hi mate! So the black cards at the bottom left of the unit card just denote what kind of unit it is:
- A golden ring is Auxiliary units (reformed)
- The X looking card is Mercenary units
- The washboard card is AOR units
divide of impera makes rome2 the best , with sub mods and gore and blood ,a joy ,but u need ssd and good ram , or u will have to wait 30 minutos for every time u charge campaign map jaja
I went back into Rome 2 for the first time in six years and first time doing DEI and smart me goes, ah, I normally play these games on legendary, I should be fine on Very Hard.
2 hours later:
Why are there so many enemy armies and why are they not dying in combat 😂
Ave Terminator !
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How are you dealing with the Civil War in mid-late Campaign ?
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Viveret et Salutant
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Hey bud! Early on I always make a point of recruiting generals from my family and sending members of opposing factions on diplomatic missions. They eventually end up dying and so it never gets to a civil war :D
@@TheTerminatorGaming
Aha Thanks !
(murder 🧐)
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Thus is in the new Dei the Civil war still present ?
Nerfed ?
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I am actually "lazy" and kind of ill (age ...)
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I have a sub-mod
www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?668226-(sub-mod)-Less-Civil-War
that deals with this by adjusting the parameters, years in-between and so on, so while the CW is present, makes it ok-ish and more of a mid/lame game adventure.
After 6 years I will eventually dive into this again , but requires some energy that I have less and less...
(don't cry for me 😜)
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It is nice and makes me proud to see this new generation of players; you guys are awesome !
hi can you tell me where mod divide and impera they are so much one without bug pls
Are you using a Graphik Mod for Comagne Map? It Looks nice!
I am indeed! Check this out - czcams.com/video/CetfOLnzmw4/video.html
Bro does ancient war mods by ave works with dei?
It seems you need a lot more patience than with the base game, I think I'll pass for now but great video explaining the systems.
Are there any good mods to pair with this? I always use 1 turn mods to speed up campaigns but I feel like that would ruin this experience. I just hate waiting 5 turns+ to finish a single building and then like 10 turns on 1 technology
Check out my submods guides :) loads of good mod collections for DEI on steam as well
Is there a pike mod that works well with this mod
what problem i have , i get crash sometimes , i get black ui ,i mean some parts of the screen are either black or transparent , also enemies cant use the ladders to get into my walls wtf
Do you like to play with Atropatkan too?
I don't know what's wrong with the newest version of divide et impera but military allies just standby watching as enemy forces destroy my armies.. plus when armies are together reinforcing each other, the AI can attack one army with 2-3 armies of their own with my other army just watching, without reinforcing
And it's not night battles - which allows the player/AI to attack an army without other armies being able to join?
Can you play the game and mod on windows 10?
Is anyone else just vibing to the background music??
Nice video but the background music is really horrible🗿
about to play the mod for the first time after having the vanilla since its release. biggest question is oes it change battles mechanics?
Hi mate! Yes it absolutely does. It generally makes them slower through buffed armour but I’d recommend you go on the DEI website and get a good look for yourself, they’ve changed loads of things about battles :)
I like DEI but if you play on normal your at war always and with limited resources
Why is my snow so patchy on my campaign map?
With 500 hours in Rome 2.
I played this and its great it took me soooo long just to get out of greece playing as macedon.
Its crazy unbalanced.
If 1 factions goes to war with you it just snowballs. You will be at war with so many factions.
Public order and money are out of balance.
You can either have constant rebels or be poor depending on what you build.
I find myself just sitting in my cities with armies waiting 10 to 20 turns just defending while i get enough growth to build a building to have some money.
Worst part is. Because diplomacy,economy and order are so unbalanced your always at war with everyone and can only afford to feild 2 or 3 armies even if you have 6 plus cities. Even still you will be poor.
Hey man. I have been posting this on forums but I haven't made any progress so I'll just copy and paste my forum post here in hopes of someone might have an answer or idea.
I am getting many different visual glitches and bugs after battles. The worst one soft locks the game because I can't press anything. I have tried to do a clean install of the game, deleting the hidden %appdata% folder, deleting all fragments of previous mods I have been using in the past along with all "pak." files, cleaned my Steam download cache and verified the cache many times. And also noticed that I had forgotten to check the Run "movie" and "release" pack mods and Run user script mods options. Checking those and restarted did nothing. I have no clue what would fix this problem as I have done EVERYTHING I can think off.
I am using the 3 parts of DEI and these Sub Mods and they are in the "correct" order:
"DeI - Slower Battles"
"It's a Small World After All"
"Dresden's Sack, Liberation and Diplomatic Options Mod"
Help would be VERY much appreciated.
Hi mate! Sorry to hear your troubles with the mod. "It's a small world after all" is not DEI compatible so try it without this one & "Dresden's Sack, Liberation and Diplomatic Options Mod" apparently has a DEI compatible version so make sure you're using that one. If that doesn't work it sounds like it might be an issue on your PC. Make sure all your software has the latest updates? You should definitely join the official discord discord.gg/Wez6GSY, they have a technical section you can ask there as well :) Hope this helps!
@@TheTerminatorGaming Appreciate it mate. I did narrow it down to it being an issue with the sub mods so what you say makes alot of sense. I'll check the discord out :)
Turn down the background music.
This is a very light survey of this game and mod. If you are a beginner and trying to learn something about this game and this mod this is not helpful at all. It spends about 50% of its time telling you how great the mod is. You will have to look elsewhere to find how to play it.
This background music is horrible!
Haha I know mate sorry about that, I’ve changed my ways since then I promise!
Which mod are you using for textures?
Probably the HD textures mod.
Do Mod changes work in AIs as well or just in Player ?
Some do yep!
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The standard?
Pretty much mate. AI is next to impossible to really change
Major factions like Rome can survive more than 20 turns?
Yes they allways survive in grand campaign so they qllways defeat Carthage and take the Islands, Italy and Spain and some Greek territory.
If we have DLC installed in Roma 2 and we install over DEI , it won’t make any conflicts or errors?
Nope! :)
Thanks , and for example if we have Hannibal at the gates installed and we install over DEI , will the DLC take DEI effects like skins and other features that it has ?
Yep DEI changes all DLCs apart from Empire Divided and Rise of the Republic :)
Thank you very much for info
Do you offer a save the campaign service? I'm absolutely screwed as Rome right now. Lol
hahaha I can take a crack mate what's happening in your campaign?
@@TheTerminatorGaming So I didn't conquer enough provinces to upgrade my navy to take on Carthage. So I conquered Sicilly, snuck around to conquer Corsica, while the Carthage navy AI was distracted I rushed troops after 3 failed attempts and burnt Carthage to the ground.
So far so Scipio- without the navy. However, after conquering Africa the DEI recruitment system means I have no Hastati only low tier mercenaries. No match for swarms of Numideans who kicked me out of Africa. Not only that but Greece was conquered by various celtic tribes and have now taken half of Italia.
I've basically made Mussolinis empire not Rome lol. Not good enough troops to conquer provinces up north to get better troops via the Imperium System. And with the Celts taking half of Italy- no food & smelly Celts have given my troops plague. 😑
And the Celts were able to sail over to Italia- because I have no upgraded navy.
That's the one thing I don't like about DIE system. The Roman army becomes too reliant on Mercenaries. On the other hand DIE unit diversity is so pretty...I keep coming back for more. We've all known a girl like that. Hahaha
Hey bud I’ve seen this and will give you a long thought out answer tomorrow 🙌
@@cshelley5658 Alright so first of all, I'll be doing a Rome guide pretty soon (when the next DEI update is out) so that will absolutely help you, but for now here are my thoughts:;
1. As Rome you need to avoid confrontation with Carthage for as long as possible until you have A. 2 or 3 almost full stack armies (2 should be enough) B. 1-2 decent sized navies (1 should be enough). You don't need to recruit expensive units. Go for mostly auxiliary or early stuff
2. You need to conquer northern Italy OR Greece. That way you have enough income to fund your armies & navies
3. As Rome your troops will always be good enough to take on other factions, you just need to know how to use them (take a look at my battle guide for some tips -czcams.com/video/P3gdHhkBfFQ/video.html)
Now that being said you want to salvage the campaign which while difficult probably isn't impossible. First off you have Africa which is good. Build up Auxiliary barracks in your provinces and start building armies made of auxiliaries there. They should hold against numidians, and if you're having trouble with them rely on a front like of spearmen and archers to take down their cavalry.
By the sound of things you don't have much control over Italy so don't worry about losing it, but if you can commit 1-2 armies to defending your cities that would be ideal.
lastly, you need a navy. You won't get anywhere without a navy destroying their navies and armies crossing the various seas. I'm doing a naval battle guide today but what you basically need to do is RAM THEM! Don't bother shooting arrows, going for naval superiority or better units, just get cheap decent units to go ram them.
Once you've secured Africa a bit more, move some armies over to Italy and recapture lost lands and your golden.
Hope it works out and let me know if you have any questions!
Sorry, but can you help me one more time? Do you konw same kind of mods to delete heroes form this Game? I cant expirence this Bullshit running behind my Stecks!
Can somebody give me the guide to install divide et impera mod please? (Yeah I Googled it but couldn't do it anyways- I have RTW2 from steam so any help?)
Hey Peter! I can make a short guide video if you think that would help?
DEFINITELY!!!!!!!!!! 💪💪💪🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💸💸💸💸💸
@@petercrash9670 Its one the Steam workshop, type this (Divide et Impera Part 1) and its three parts. Next start up the game go the mod manager and activate it.
@@kingmarre9130 yeah. I am waiting for my brother to give me his steam codes.
I am an old man now. I am used to the older installation methods of MED2 and RTW1 by cursing and crushing. Thanks though.
Turn off the ****ing muzak!
AAA Generals mods ? Can i play with this mods
Yes sir! And its amazing!
@@TheTerminatorGaming 👏👏
Damn this is too complex for me
ye but after you learn it worth it...
What is the background song name?
I always stay away from mods, in any games...For me it's always a source of new problems and bugs. I have 900hrs into Rome 2 Vanilla
Fair enough bud. I would say give it a try cause it adds so much depth and personality to the game and is as polished as a normal game would be so not many bugs really. And you can just remove the mods easily if you don't like it :)
This game was a source of problems and bugs at release until the modders started improving it. I can't imagine 900 hours without sampling some of the best the community has to offer.
That stupid beat on loop. I cant do it. Ruins the guide
How the fuck does this mod work? My legionaries break and run fighting militia at very hard difficulty.
Also, why is half the world is war with me and never agree for peace even if I give them 100000
Hi mate, because you’re playing on VH, on Campaign DEI is balanced on Normal or Hard if you want a challenge but I wouldn’t recommend VH
@@TheTerminatorGaming thank you
whats the submod to remove penalty for armies in cities i cant find it it so annoying to have to keep armies out of cities