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Imperium is an epic strategy game that is filled with tactics, strategy, and a whole ton of resource management and confusion all wrapped in one package. While probably not the best for a casual gamer that doesn’t play strategy often, it is great for a strategy junky. This game has 24 different kinds of resources which all need to be used to produce units or provide supplies(food, iron, etc), and gold for wages. You must balance them all in order to build your empire and conquer the island. I’ve played this game on medium and have written a strategy. |
This game is very complex so I would recommend you start off on easy to get the hang of micro-management of resources, moving resources, and attacking. I suggest you start playing on speed 2 as speed 1 is too slow and anything faster is tough to manage. First off is that you will have to move your resources a lot. No one city can produce all the different kinds of resources. In the city that I start with I could only produce spear soldiers and arrow soldiers. You have to be fast also as the rival empire is also expanding and conquering lands. You need to try to be faster than them. Start off the game by building a house and then a farm. That will give you population and food. Be careful and watch your resource intake/outgo as that is very important. If you run out of a certain resource in your starting city, your kind of screwed. You must build as you go along. Also upgrading buildings is better than buiding new ones as it is more space efficient. If you are running low on a certain resource, build the structure that produces that resource. Do not run out of food, iron, money, or logs in this game on your first city. When you have about 500 troops or so, split them up into 250 arrow and 250 spear and go attack the area below you. You should be able to conquer it with that many troops and start building on that city immediately with a house and a shrimp farm. Note that you cannot produce a barracks in this city(at least in my game), so you will have to import troops over from your first city. Don’t ever leave a city empty as barbarians will come and attack. Before you import, build and upgrade plenty of extra houses in your 2nd city as the soldiers will need lots of space to love. In this second city, you should be able to access horses and elephants(or other resources since your game may be different). Build horse and elephant stables. You can import bows and spears from your first city. Get a group of 250 archers, 250 spear-men, 80 elephants, and 100 horses, and go attack another province. You should be able to take it out. Remember in battles, the more battalions you have, the better as it will force the enemy to spread fire out more allowing troops to live longer. Then repeat the building process until there are no un-occupied spaces left. Make sure to never leave a city empty on troops or it will get taken over by the enemy or barbarians. When you have to fight the other empire, use a province as a super-house province and import all your stuff there and attack with one huge strike. On easy, it shouldn’t be too hard to beat the AI, but on medium, it might take a few tries. If you’ve expanded and built right, you should eventually be able to whittle your enemy down and defeat him. Happy conquests. Feel free to post and comment on your strategies here.
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:59 pm
nice =)
im addicted to this game D:
October 5th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
I’m getting NaN for my two conquered cities in the working slot. I cant seem to produce much. Every time i import lots of food and money, it disappears almost immediately. What the heck is going on?
October 5th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
You probably didn’t build any houses. Build houses
October 6th, 2008 at 3:10 am
Every time I put elephants into battle they disappear, anyone know why?
October 11th, 2008 at 9:22 am
how can i get elephants and horses and stuff like that?
October 11th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
To get elephants you have to conquer lands that have those propertys my question is how do you get spells?
November 11th, 2008 at 11:19 am
i have no idea how to get workers
November 11th, 2008 at 11:19 am
can anybody help me
November 14th, 2008 at 7:51 am
To Richie:
try with a different type of weapon for elephant, I tried normal arrow and elephant disappear.
To ryan:
Build more houses
For me, I just nicely maintain each town so that it can grow and constantly export and import to get resources and money. Usually my food overflow and exporting it means a lot of money. You can war with 1 or 2 to see roughly how big is the enemy army. After developing for sometimes, you can attack cities and leave them empty if you feel the barbarians and the other empire often strike that place. But make sure you move the resources from the city somewhere else. Sometimes, you can transport troops to various cities to stock up. Then you just do a chain of moving resources when you want to attack, gathering all of your troops for attack, but make sure you do it fast or risking troops leaving.
Beware of enemy’s catapult, they can tear apart your army before you know it. Try conquer Haze early to get catapult and then take another nearly city such as enemy starting capital so as to ensure the enemy do not attack Haze. These strategy worked for me and I massively gathered troops, attacking every 10 to 30 days, roughly amount to 1000 over troops, mainly horses, elephants, catapults, magicians and super soldiers. Do underestimate these super soldiers, they sometimes can kill armies even if outnumbered.
November 14th, 2008 at 7:54 am
I forget: Always transport your basic resources to the next city after war, then it is possible to develop very quickly
November 15th, 2008 at 10:54 am
every time i build a house in one of the other city’s it always says NaN do you know why?
November 15th, 2008 at 11:19 am
carex,gigelium, and fargaz wont let me build house’s their the ones saying NaN when i build a house.
November 15th, 2008 at 11:40 am
please reply asap(as soon as posible)
November 15th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
I have no idea why, try the game at “armor games” to see if you meet the same problem again, I never met problems like that before.
I just realized that spamming catapults can destroy a lot of armies. I used around ten troops of 4 catapults each and easily destroyed enemy’s army which is about 200 to 300.