Now Odoacer's Italy and the Ostrogoths will back off and will be on the defensive instead of the offensive due to the overwhelming strength of the Byzantine military. This will work 100% of the time with literally any year on the timeline as West Rome due to this modifier.
Historical Friend means Historical Backupīyzantium will immediately accept as alliance offer due to being historical friends. This time Emperor Nepos will rightfully be restored as Emperor of Rome. Historically, Julius Nepos would later continue to rule over the rump state and would even get assassinated. Now exiled as the Rump State of Roman Dalmatia, with a mere development 25 (down from a previous development of 1151), and bordering Odoacer's now mighty Kingdom of Italy, the hostile Ostrogoths, and the friendly Byzantine Empire. Now only you, Byzantium, Soissons, and Altava are what remain of the former Roman Empire. Byzantium will help you.įollowing the fall of Rome and the last remaining (West) Roman city of Ravenna, Roman Emperor Julius Nepos had fled Italy to Dalmatia, because his rival, Odoacer, had won and proclaimed himself the 1st King of Italy. Having a good military advisor will make this task even easier. You will have to accept the loss of Gaul, Britannia and Illyria/Pannonia, but in return, you will be able to keep Italy, Spain and your african holdings safe from the barbarians by only attacking the barbarians when they sit on your forts in the mountains. To succeed, keep an open mind, and don't let a loss derail your campaign.Īlternatively, rush the tech that gives you forts and take a loan or two if needed to build a wall of forts in the mountainous areas of northern Spain and in the alps. Overall, West Rome is a very hard nation to play as don't think you can keep all your provinces forever.
While it may seem like a bad idea, expanding your British holdings gives you a fallback location in case Rome falls. Instead, let them attack you defensive wars are looked on favorably by allies, and you can win battles by attacking less and letting enemies get crossing penalties. Never declare war here Germans will attack in your moment of weakness, and then your fate is sealed. The AI generally doesn't attack vassals, so your borders will be secured if you get the wall up fast enough. Build a vassal wall on your border, and make sure you are allied with Byzantium. DO go over the force limit having many loans because you wasted cash over the force limit is preferable to complete annihilation. When you are swarmed by Germanic tribes, hire mercenaries and recruit regiments. West Rome is playable from January 17th, 395 to 480, where West Rome is annexed by Italy.ĭecisions Restore the Roman Empire (West Rome) If the player is playing as Rome, and activates the Division of Rome decision, then both the Western Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire (who is West Rome's historical friend) is formed from the original empire, and the player is given the decision to play as either of the two empires. West Rome is both a formable country and a country that the player can start as.
West Rome will suffer greatly from the Barbarian Invasions till it is isolated with only two provinces in the East Adriatic area, Balkans region of the Eastern Europe subcontinent on September 4, 476. West Rome borders the waters of the North Atlantic to the west and Mediterranean south. The autocracy emerges from the split of Chalcedonian Rome with Chalcedonian Byzantium taking the Roman lands to the east on January 17, 395, with cores, bordering Fetishist African countries to the south, bordering Byzantium and Tengri Huns east in the Balkans, Germanic barbarian tribes in the northeast and the Druidist Celtic countries in the Britain region.
ROW West Rome is a Chalcedonian Roman autocracy that occupies the lands of Iberia, France, Italy, South German and Britain regions of Western Europe subcontinent and the northern areas of the Maghreb region of the Africa continent.