Chapter 1: Prologue part 1
Imperator
This was a totalist grand strategy game centred around an alternate world where the Roman empire was torn apart with Medival and Barbarian kingdoms rising up against their former masters until the Empire had whole been destroyed.
The game lets you choose one of the countries to control, managing everything from the cities, army, taxes, and even food consumption in a very in-depth way that makes every decision count as you citizens or even the army could rebel and turn traitor if you made the wrong choices.
But this game had a secret level, a hidden level that many pros tried and failed numerous times to complete, the unobtainable forbidden fruit.
He who could conquer the game on this immortal level of difficulty would forever be remembered as the ultimate grand strategy gamer.
The reason being you had to choose to start the game as the weakest of all the selectable choices, a noble wastrel last in the line of the former Roman imperials who bears serious penalties right from the beginning and in almost all cases his death is delivered within two turns or two days of game time.
But I've strived for the last 2 years to beat this game outright, to climb to that unassailable height and claim the glory no other human on earth has managed to do.
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400,000 of our troops vs. 450,000 enemy troops, not a bad mix for the enemy's final stronghold.