After a few hundred hours playing imperator rome, i would like to point out something that appears to me as being very frustrating i.e the major imbalance in technology and science between the main countries ( Rome, Macedonia... ) and other countries like for exemple some nearby gallic kingdoms.
When you start with a tribe, for exemple, you dont have cities and have to work hard with limited gold to build them and start a research operation. It finally starts, you expand, and at that point, you havent yet reached level 2 in tech that you get hit by macedonians or romans that are already at level 8 and kill easily even the biggest empire with lots of allies. To me that is a real problem because it does not reflect the reality, militarily speaking.
At these times obviously, technology meant a lot in terms of social organization, building and construction and in other areas, and i would therefore accept a big imbalance in these areas, but in the military field, i quite disagree. Sure, the "better" kingdoms were better organized and that should be reflected in the game but everybody had more or less the same kind of weapons and the morale was certainly not so imbalanced as to allow 10.000 macedonians to easily kill 40.000 gallic ennemies with heavy cavalry without beaking stride.
That is my 2 cents. And to complete that and give you maybe a way to bridge in part this research gap while making the game more interesting, i would suggest the possibility for lesser research kingdoms to pillage some technology when they hit for exemple the cities of a more advanced kingdom
When you start with a tribe, for exemple, you dont have cities and have to work hard with limited gold to build them and start a research operation. It finally starts, you expand, and at that point, you havent yet reached level 2 in tech that you get hit by macedonians or romans that are already at level 8 and kill easily even the biggest empire with lots of allies. To me that is a real problem because it does not reflect the reality, militarily speaking.
At these times obviously, technology meant a lot in terms of social organization, building and construction and in other areas, and i would therefore accept a big imbalance in these areas, but in the military field, i quite disagree. Sure, the "better" kingdoms were better organized and that should be reflected in the game but everybody had more or less the same kind of weapons and the morale was certainly not so imbalanced as to allow 10.000 macedonians to easily kill 40.000 gallic ennemies with heavy cavalry without beaking stride.
That is my 2 cents. And to complete that and give you maybe a way to bridge in part this research gap while making the game more interesting, i would suggest the possibility for lesser research kingdoms to pillage some technology when they hit for exemple the cities of a more advanced kingdom
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