All roads lead to Rome.

This time I want grand-mondial.co.uk to introduce you to the strategy from Paradox Interactive published on April 25, 2019. I remember I was waiting for this strategy from the announcement as soon as I saw an advertising video. Not because I love Paradox Interactive strategies, frankly, they quickly lead me their meticulousness. I tried both the strategies of this studio and about the Crusades and about the “era of the warring provinces” of Japan, but many icons of the game and a huge number of texts with a practically non -changing appearance of the map that hangs before my eyes brought me boredom.
The game of Rome attracted me by the fact that first of all she was about the formation of Roman rule. I want to show you this era with my own eyes. Why exactly she attracts me.
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It is always interesting to be at the origins of something true? With your own hands, brick behind a brick fold the wall and watch how it grows, and then folds into a beautiful building.
So the “Emperor” transfers us at a time when the name of Rome has not yet thundered around the world. Rome is still in the vastness of territories, its influence and management is not distinguished among hundreds of cities-states. 304.n.e.
The era of the expansion of Greek cities has long been forgotten, the Trojan war has long died out and recalled only in legends, their colonies have long gained independence, or joined more powerful kingdoms.
The famous campaigns of Alexander of Macedon, who laid the final end of Greek rule and united many peoples into a huge Macedonian state, only died out. But the kingdom of Alexander with his death scattered into thousands of grains of sands, leading continuous wars among themselves. So Greece and the kingdom of the Arabian peninsula are weak opponents to the future Rome.
In northern Africa there is a huge and rich city of Carthage. Carthage conducts trade with many cities on the Mediterranean Sea, its huge fleet, commercial and military, controls the entire Mediterranean. Carthage is not only the shopping center of the ancient world, it is also the Center for Arts and Education. The richest, educated and enthusiastic and sophisticated in arts and music live in Carthage. And this titanium with all its power stands on the way of future Rome. Rome has only one advantage over this mastodont of the ancient world. Carthage is a city of trading people, military affairs here are far from being held. Any wars Carthage leads gold. His army is only mercenaries how to pay for anyone who pays without their state.
Rome at this time only takes the first steps to its future. He was lucky to arise on trade routes. Rome is located between the north and the south of the Appeninsky Peninsula. In the north, the Etruscan kingdom is rich in mineral and various goods, and the south of Italy is rich in grain and bread. And there is an active trade between them, at the crossroads of which Rome arose. He is rich at the expense of this trade.
Rome has already thrown off the shackles of Etruscan power. Etruscan beliefs and culture, which is considered by historians to lower culture, no longer gravitates over Rome. Rome dropped the Etruscan gods from their pantheons and expelled the last Etruscan king. Now in Rome stone bridges, stone buildings, previously prohibited by the Etruscan religion are built in Rome (the Etruscan religion forbade the construction of stone buildings, the bridges for a long time were wooden and expensive clay. They were blurred annually and were brought into disrepair by Tiber) Drunk wine in a Greek manner is drunk, and more and more Rome is imbued with fraternal Greek culture. Greek things are fashionable. Meanwhile, the Etruscan traditions remain, to conduct games with a spear throwing, archery, throwing rings at the gallop and others, which were prototypes of future Olympic Games.
Management in Rome differs from management in tribes and nationalities. The king is expelled in Rome, and the Old Divine Cities are engaged in management. This is called the Senate. Many tribes have a Senate, this is not the invention of Rome. But in Rome there is also the power of the national assembly. Everyone who has Roman citizenship can vote for important decisions in the life of the city. True, the vote is far from equal. Plebeians have 1 vote per 100 people, but each horseman has its own voting right.
Rome already has its own professional army, which was able to win several tribes. And the fact that the army is professional and consists mainly of Rome citizens.
Most of the cities around Rome are already absorbed in them. They are his tributaries, and Rome promises them their patronage. A small part of the rulers of these cities and tribes have “cartridges” in the Roman Senate. Personal patronage in Rome is still poorly common, but already taking place. This will later play a decisive role in the Punic warriors, in which Carthage will not be able to persuade these tribes to fight Rome.
And just at that time of the young Roman Republic, the player is offered to try on a purple toga, sit in the Kurulny chair as a consul of Rome to start the game.