Green Wing posted:

Total war games tend to be very easy to blob over the whole map, how will you protect against this so that you're not an invincible Empire long before ck2?

Ofaloaf posted:

zephyr42 posted:

I just... I just want to see some strong non-Christian, non-Muslim (maybe?) kingdoms on the map when the game starts.

Merdifex posted:

The former has been ruined for us through Arian missioaries sent by Ofaloaf. It seems that Italia is somewhat Greco-Roman but it's hard to see that lasting.

GunnerJ posted:

tl;dr: United Republic of Roman Republics!


The separatists were largely motivated by opposition to the growing "dominate" style of Roman imperial government, under which Rome actually functioned as an empire, rather than preserving the fiction of a republic united under a "first among equals," as had been the style of government during the so-called "principate" period. They were not, at first, "republicans" in any sense we or the actual pre-Caesar Roman Republic would recognize. They favored a strong Senate and an "Imperator" who truly ruled as princeps inter pares, ironically making their government a precursor to later parliamentary monarchies. Over time, though, this would evolve into a new republican ideology. The "Roman Principality" by the middle ages was a confederation of republics that prospered on trade and conquest.

The "Italia" empire-level title becomes the "Roman Empire" which functions on HRE rules but is composed of republics rather than feudal realms. If possible, the elected holder of the empire title remains a patrician, lending the name "Roman Principality" to the realm. Otherwise I guess the Imperator can function as the head of a feudal realm with a bunch of republic vassals, sounds like a good system!!

THE LESBIATHAN posted:

This dude knows what's up.

ZearothK posted:

I want some Roman colonies off in America and this seems the way to go, though I do think the capital should have moved somewhere more central in these three hundred years.

Patter Song posted:

That which is long united must divide...and Ofaloaf must do everything he can to prevent that which is long divided from uniting.

Fox Ironic posted:

Fox Ironic posted:

Far from it actually. Even with Blue, Islam will be much more limited than OTL. A strong Zoroastrian Persia and Christian North Africa will create a very interesting dynamic.

Lord Cyrahzax posted:

Let's see how Roman we can get.

Randarkman posted:

What about religion-wise? Do we assume the triumph of Arianism or will the spread of Christianity be a separate vote entirely?

ZearothK posted:

What she said.

sheep-dodger posted:

The Slavic Takeover
The initial Slavic migrations were welcomed by the Eastern Roman Empire, as it desperately needed recruits to try and stop the Sassanid advance on Anatolia, and in return for their service in the army, many Slavs were allowed to settle in the provinces of Thrace and Illyria. Over the decades, Slavs came to dominate the army, as more and more Eastern provinces were lost and the Greek elites were reluctant to enter military service.
It was the domination of the empire's army that would secure the Slavic domination of the empire.
After a botched coup in the early 500's the Slavic generals, nominally working in the name of the boy-emperor of the time, began rooting out the Greek elites that had plotted to overthrow him. Those nobles would be replaced by former Slavic chiefs, which was the first taste for the Eastern Romans of what was to come in the next centuries.
This process culminated in the early 700s, when a Slavic general successfully usurped the crown and styling himself Tiberius and gaining control over the entire empire.
In game terms, the ERE stretches up to the Danube and its northern half is firmly Slavic, while the Greeks have been reduced mostly to Attica. The reigning emperor is Slavic, but the cohabitation of Greeks and Slavs in the empire means that they are in the process of developing a new syncretic culture (melting pot events).

Fox Ironic posted:

Do the British consider themselves to be Roman? Will they be an Empire like the WRE, HRE or ERE? Or will they fracture into Duchies/Kingdoms?

A Buttery Pastry posted:

I thought that voted ended up with the Romans in Britain merely hanging on in (parts of) Britain, rather than dominating it?