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
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
The AI never does any diplomacy with you (and even if one of the northern barbarian factions makes a non aggression pact they'll just break it). In my game Syracuse literally declared war on me after Carthage attacked them, and they refused to peace out, eventually just dying to the Carthaginians. Even if factions like you and would benefit from working together, they will refuse to sign any pacts or even a trade agreement with you. Without fully uniting Italy you can't afford enough troops or ships to invade Carthage. Besides, I have to spend ages replenishing because I keep having to defeat 5 stacks of Carthaginians or Massilians with the two stacks I can barely afford, on top of dealing with revolts which the AI never gets. Massilia is so dedicated to fighting me right now that they won't even peace out despite of being attacked by their neighbours and losing all their armies to me. Now someone is sieging their last city. God the AI in this game is laughably bad.
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!
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
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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!
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
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.
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 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.
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 .
Great video! If I look at the faction-information when selecting I do not see any texts there - also no unit names for most of them. Do you have an idea why?
It sounds like either your playing the game in a language other than English (which is the only language supported for DEI) OR you have a bad installation, so I'd recommend verifying your files and ensuring you have all of the parts of DEI installed. (Also, this mod only works with legitimate copies of the game)
I've been playing DEI since 2015 or so and just started a new co-op campaign a couple weeks ago, the mod seems hugely improved! One thing that has never been clear to me though is whether disbanding units returns their respective population to the local province. So say you recruit Triarii in Rome and disband them somewhere else, are the 200 Patricians added to the population of the province where they are disbanded?
In the past it didn’t work but yes now when you delete units their pop goes into the region they are in when deleted. A great way to move population around!
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
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.. ☹️
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
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
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 :)
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
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.
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 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 :)
They got really strong troops now, for the economy I like to make the big province (the one with new Carthage, I forgot the name now lol) into a industrial based province. Or agriculture with the food export can work wonders too
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.
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?
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.
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.
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 ?
The tech and reform alway mess me up playing rome in dei, cause on the normal game I just rush the tech tree to get legionary and just steamrolled the map
I do my best to keep an eye on comments mate. RUclips 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 🤓
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 🤓
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 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 :)
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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
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
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
The AI never does any diplomacy with you (and even if one of the northern barbarian factions makes a non aggression pact they'll just break it). In my game Syracuse literally declared war on me after Carthage attacked them, and they refused to peace out, eventually just dying to the Carthaginians. Even if factions like you and would benefit from working together, they will refuse to sign any pacts or even a trade agreement with you. Without fully uniting Italy you can't afford enough troops or ships to invade Carthage. Besides, I have to spend ages replenishing because I keep having to defeat 5 stacks of Carthaginians or Massilians with the two stacks I can barely afford, on top of dealing with revolts which the AI never gets. Massilia is so dedicated to fighting me right now that they won't even peace out despite of being attacked by their neighbours and losing all their armies to me. Now someone is sieging their last city. God the AI in this game is laughably bad.
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!
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 :)
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
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!
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
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.
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
Even with lots of experience with DEI I still learn new things from your videos.
Stahhhp ❤️
Now you go study too 😆
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!
Thank you for the clear install instructions.
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
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.
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!
Perfect introduction to the mod. Thanks for the work mate.
Thanks so much 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!
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?
Skill issue
How are you upgrading them if you're negative? Looting?
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
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 😁
Great breakdown. DEI is what makes this game my favorite TW
Thanks mate! I’m the same as you! Forever will be my favorite
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
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
Thanks mate. Downloaded today, looking forward to it.
Best of luck! Feel free to join our discord and ask any questions
Wonderful video! well done!
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.
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.
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.
33:44 Sean Connery mode activated....Shward....:) Thanks for the guide bub :D
The senate demands that you remake this video and pronounce the mod name correctly!
I AM.. THE SENATE!
@@Immersaholic Not yet.
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
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!
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
In my game it is working perfectly fine in natural loading order, part 1 coming first, part 2 - second, etc.
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
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
Great video, thank you!
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 :)
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.
I really like Dei mod and normally I’m not much of a mod guy. feels very immersive
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
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 :)
This is amazing.
Your amazing !
This is perfect, thanks again mate
Thank you mate!
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.
thank you for this guide ! :D
Thank you for watching!
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 .
Hi, i don't know if it's already commented, but you didn't mention the changed Gouverneurs. Great video thou 😊
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 :)
Great video!
If I look at the faction-information when selecting I do not see any texts there - also no unit names for most of them. Do you have an idea why?
It sounds like either your playing the game in a language other than English (which is the only language supported for DEI) OR you have a bad installation, so I'd recommend verifying your files and ensuring you have all of the parts of DEI installed.
(Also, this mod only works with legitimate copies of the game)
I just started my India campaign and its fun
I've been playing DEI since 2015 or so and just started a new co-op campaign a couple weeks ago, the mod seems hugely improved!
One thing that has never been clear to me though is whether disbanding units returns their respective population to the local province. So say you recruit Triarii in Rome and disband them somewhere else, are the 200 Patricians added to the population of the province where they are disbanded?
In the past it didn’t work but yes now when you delete units their pop goes into the region they are in when deleted. A great way to move population around!
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 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
Your game music is awsome. Which mode you use for it?
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?
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.. ☹️
@@rizaldiaulia7496Maybe it's because it's a percentage increase, and other provinces have a higher population to begin with. Idk tho.
Good guide, the only one before u was from the official team of DEi with a potato microphone 😂
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
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
Why don't I have this yet? I know what I'm doing after work lol
tanks, needed a update on the supply system. been a couple years since i played
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
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 :)
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
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.
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
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
Is besieging attrition still a thing?
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 hope they give my beloved Iberians some love. They got decent troops but economically, it's a nightmare
They got really strong troops now, for the economy I like to make the big province (the one with new Carthage, I forgot the name now lol) into a industrial based province. Or agriculture with the food export can work wonders too
@@Immersaholic I will check out the last update then
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.
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?
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
Do you still need to changed your army-stand to stop them from eating the food on all the region ????
I find it really annoying to play with the kimbri because of the reduced campaing movement.
Fair enough, camping movement is always the first buff I get for my generals so it hasn’t really bothered me before tbh.
ahaha... yea, i feel you bro. thats why I tweak a lot in my every playthrough, especially the movement points. 😅
When I hover over population/supplies nothing shows up.
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!
Good into to DEI. Thanks
isnt your mod load order wrong? part 1 is meant to be top
Very useful
Thanks mate!
If i buy the greek culture pack, can i play them in this mod?
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.
lol gutting it’s such a fun mod 😂
lol gutting it’s such a fun mod 😂
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!
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 ?
Need help i followed all the steps but my rome 2 still runs in vanilla
The tech and reform alway mess me up playing rome in dei, cause on the normal game I just rush the tech tree to get legionary and just steamrolled the map
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. RUclips 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 🤓
Do you use the benjin AAA general mod ?
Yes, all of my submods are listed in the description of all my videos
As if it's been 10 years 😯 I have over 500 hours in Rome II
Insane right! I’ve just gotten over the 1100 hour mark, still need more!
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.
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 🤓
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
8:53 Shouldn't the load order be part 1, part 2 and part 3 and not 3, 2 and 1?
I wish there was DEI for every total war game.
Me too mate. There is a very similar mod for Attila which seems real good. I plan to check it out quite soon, may make a video on it
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 :)
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!