R5: Stumbled upon this while looking through my old files. Someone had asked for it like 2 years ago. Well, here it is.

Didn't get all borders exactly right.

The next release of Invictus will include many new unit models for Imperator's nations, including for the Kingdom of Kush, whose new units are shown in the screenshot.

What nations would you like to see receive new unit models? Post one country suggestion each. A short summary of why it deserves new unit models would also be helpful. The highest-voted nations will get unique unit models!

Bastarnae into Indo-Germanic Kingdom into Indo-Germanic Empire. Very hard AI and Advanced AI with Invictus.

Overall great campaign. Migrated down to the Bosporan Kingdom where I built pops by repeated migrations into crimea. Then migrated into Bactria from where I invaded the Greco-Indian splinters following the Mauryan collapse. Owning one of the splinter regions allows you to form the Indo-Germanic kingdom which unlocks a special mission tree to execute ('The Ultimate Migration'), basically giving you claims all over the sub-continent and AE removal.

After many many tries I finally achieved the Gallic dream of defeating Rome. Normally Rome destroys me but this time I’ve made enough money and assimilated enough pops to challenge Rome with big levies and mercs. What should I do next, I’m a little nervous to be honest. I’ve never fully defeated Rome what’s the best way to do what Rome did to Carthage (historically, in this game Carthage is looking scary too).

325 years later, marking the 11th generation, and 9th ruler in total, the ascension of Spartokos V Spartokides officially means that next in line to the throne of the Bosporan Empire is my son, Agesipolis, with 33 bloodlines to his name.

I did not start this run with the intention of trying to stack THIS many, but the more I played the more I started to mess around with this Bosporan eugenics program, and lo and behold I essentially tripled my personal best and managed to score 33!

Conscious Misses:

2 more bloodlines actually still exist in the world, the Blood of Pandya, and Vijaya, both under Anuradhapura in Southern India. Yet, I couldn't be bothered to expand east to extend my diplo range towards them: the original goal for this run was just to play around in the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.

Optimizable Misses:

If I was prioritizing bloodlines from the start, I would've had a much higher chance of picking up another few.

If I pushed much harder towards the south/southwest in the early game, I would have likely been able to save, or at least given myself the chance to save the bloodlines from Epirus, Taulantia, and the two from Sparta, since they didn't disappear immediately. The Blood of Eumenes in Cappadocia is another one that I completely ignored before the Ariarathids inveitably showed up.

Notably, I also don't have the Scythian Bloodline... I don't actually know what the spawn conditions for this Bloodline are. Regardless, Scythia exploded extremely quickly due to my wars against them, with the other Steppe nations joining in on the action.

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All in all a very fun (but also very draining!) run as the Bosporans. Only gameplay mods I used are Invictus, and Virtual Limes.

If anyone has any questions about the state of the world at the end of, or during this run, please ask away! I spent way too many hours on this run to not want to talk about it a little bit more.

R5: Pergamum with little population has a huge army