No wonder the Roman Empire completely collapsed at this time.

[Chris125]

Playing as one of the new DLC factions the Lagobards or whatever they are called, I made alliances and pacts with like literally all my neighbouring tribes and we all absolutely tore the Western Roman Empire to shreds. They were spread so thinly trying to battle about 6 different barbarian hoards at once and we were all taking their cities at will.

[Kotli]

Well the differnce between the game and real life is Rome has a lot of money and land that it traded to get tribes to defend the heartlands.

[Chef GrumpyBlitz]

Originally posted by Kotli:

Well the differnce between the game and real life is Rome has a lot of money and land that it traded to get tribes to defend the heartlands.

lol that was not around this time though...at this time OP is correct Rome could no longer pay the tribes and mercenaries so they got all their lands pillaged

[ElenOfTheWays]

All empires rise and fall.

[Mephiston87]

Originally posted by coyi1895:

All empires rise and fall.

well rome didnt fall here, they simply got beaten up pretty badly. then Attila died and the huns got either wiped out or fled.

[Building 7]

the vandals did the final sacking of rome..

[Budoshi]

Originally posted by Illuminated:

the vandals did the final sacking of rome..

yes and the west emperor at that time was an idiot teenager. that didnt help.was drinking and eating and partying while hes empire was crumbling.


interesting check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Western_Roman_Empire#mediaviewer/File:Roman_Republic_Empire_map.gif

[Darcaem]

Some writers said that the Western Roman Empire was doomed when Aetius, call "the last of the romans", was murdered by the emperor himself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavius_Aetius

When the Empire was falling apart, he managed to turn the enemies of Rome ones against others, and make political alliances with them. It is said even that after the Catalaunian Plains, he let Attila wathdraw so the huns would still be a threat that forces the need to maintain the alliances, so the Empire could survive.

[Coldsmoke]

Originally posted by Darcaem:

Some writers said that the Western Roman Empire was doomed when Aetius, call "the last of the romans", was murdered by the emperor himself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavius_Aetius

When the Empire was falling apart, he managed to turn the enemies of Rome ones against others, and make political alliances with them. It is said even that after the Catalaunian Plains, he let Attila wathdraw so the huns would still be a threat that forces the need to maintain the alliances, so the Empire could survive.

Yeah as disgusting as that is, the root cause of the downfall though would have to be when the skilless and inept emperor Commodus completely abandoned the Germanic front that his father was slowly winning for decades. Tons of men died for nothing just so Commodus could selfishly not have to worry about such a intensive military campaign. Leaving the hostile tribes alone allowed them to slowly build up strength until rome just couldn't fully deal with them like in the OP's game. If that front had been secured then history could have turned out drastically different.

[๖ۣۜᎶ𝔥𝔬𝔰𝔱 👻]

The eastern roman empire didnt fall, it became the byzantine empire

[Voth]

The Byzantines became insignificant, slowly dwindling to just the city of Constantinople before falling to the Ottomans who brought cannons in 1453. It was a long slow fall vs the sudden fall of western Rome, by comparison.

[ElenOfTheWays]

Byzantium empire fell in 1453. No empires are eternal.

Originally posted by Mephiston87:

Originally posted by coyi1895:

All empires rise and fall.

well rome didnt fall here, they simply got beaten up pretty badly. then Attila died and the huns got either wiped out or fled.

I'm saying about all empires in general. The Roman empire were in terminal decline by then and following the same principle as gravity of what goes up must come down.

[Darcaem]

Originally posted by Mephiston87:

Originally posted by coyi1895:

All empires rise and fall.

well rome didnt fall here, they simply got beaten up pretty badly. then Attila died and the huns got either wiped out or fled.

The huns weren't the ones who sacked Rome, but they were certainly one of the causes of its fall. Once the huns stopped being a threat, the only link that kept together the Western Roman Empire disappeared.

[SkyDogAlaman]

There were still a few Western Roman governors alive and prospering after 476 AD (The fall of the Emperor).
In Britania, it is said that perhaps some Romano-British leaders defended successfully against the Saxons for another 200 years after the legions left around 410 AD.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Deorham

[SkyDogAlaman]

Originally posted by coyi1895:

Byzantium empire fell in 1453. No empires are eternal.

Originally posted by Mephiston87:

well rome didnt fall here, they simply got beaten up pretty badly. then Attila died and the huns got either wiped out or fled.

I'm saying about all empires in general. The Roman empire were in terminal decline by then and following the same principle as gravity of what goes up must come down.

Only fifteen years before Rome fell it was on its way to being restored by the brilliant military strategist, Emperor Majorian, who in his reign from 457-461 won numerous battles over the germanic hordes and forced them back into feodorati status.
Ironically, in a horrible way, it was Romans themselves who helped the Western Empire collapse. Majorian was murdered by greedy senators after he tried to instigate reforms. Mussolini said that blood alone moves the wheels of history, but for Rome it was Avarice and Corruption.