Can you re-unite Rome?

[Hearshot]

Title, can you do that in this?? If so Ill buy it, if not ill wait for dlc / not care.

I'm whimsical like that,, Id pay 45$ just for a message that says ROME REUNITED HURR DUR.

(this isnt a troll or sarcastic post, I am 100% serious about everything I have said, including this disclaimer, don't think this disclaimer is me trolling either, this isn't a joke, and don't take me repeating this isn't a joke to think it is a joke, again I repeat this post is very serious. *IT IS SERIOUS, STOP THINKING IM NOT BEING SERIOUS BECAUSE I AM* )

[Shadow of the SPQR]

Wtf?

[Qoojo]

ROME REUNITED HURR DUR

Please send the money in care of Qoojo

[Hearshot]

I really want to know if you can reunite east and west rome ;(

[KylieInWonderland]

Duh its total war. play as one side of rome and conquer the other side and the rest of the world or have an alliance with them. Total war games let you play out the campaign how you want. They start historically accurate but then go their own way so every campaign is different.

[Chaos4u]

You cannot reunite the empire. It will just be west or east rome holding the other's provinces.

[Harvain]

The Eastern Roman Empire, after the West "fell", reconquered a lot of the Empire.

Justinian I (/dʒʌˈstɪniən/; Latin: Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Iustinianus Augustus, Greek: Φλάβιος Πέτρος Σαββάτιος Ἰουστινιανός Flábios Pétros Sabbátios Ioustinianos) (c. 482 – 14 November 565), sometimes known as Justinian the Great, was a Byzantine (East Roman) emperor from 527 to 565. During his reign, Justinian sought to revive the empire's greatness and reconquer the lost western half of the historical Roman Empire.

Justinian's reign is marked by the ambitious but only partly realized renovatio imperii, or "restoration of the Empire".[4]

Because of his restoration activities, Justinian has sometimes been called the "last Roman" in modern historiography.[5] This ambition was expressed by the partial recovery of the territories of the defunct western Roman empire.[6] His general, Belisarius, swiftly conquered the Vandal kingdom in North Africa, re-extending Roman control to the Atlantic Ocean. Subsequently Belisarius, Narses, and other generals conquered the Ostrogothic kingdom, restoring Dalmatia, Sicily, Italy, and Rome to the empire after more than half a century of rule by the Ostrogoths.



So yes, if you are skilled enough and consider well with either the Western or Eastern Empire, you can easily beat back the barbarians, reconquer the Roman World and expand beyond. A smart Emperor will not try to hold his entire empire, but focus on holding what he can, wait for his chance and march forth once the barbarians that settle his lands begin fighting amongest themselves than just against Romans.

For the Western Empire, North African needs to be fully conquered and Iberia developed, and should become strongholds for the Western Empire. If you never let these areas fall, even the loses of Gaul, Italy, Britian and the Balkans will not mean much. You will have 2 strongholds to retreat or advance from and the Atlantic/Med to move your armies/fleets allowing campaigns against almost any area of the map possible. You can swing a fleet & army back to Britian, reconquer it after it falls. Then use it as a buffer while your armies/fleets from Iberia/North Africa rush forth, slowly reconquering key areas.

The Eastern Empire, its up to you. If you do as the lets play video by Total War and try to stop the hordes in Greece...you risk Asia Minor (Modern day Turkey), Syria, Palestine and Egypt from the civilized parts of the Eastern World. The Eastern Empire faces less of a threat from Barbarians if you try to force them westward. Egypt and Asia Minor are bread baskets, they will provide food, money and troops if guarded, allowing passage on the Med to hold the coast along Syria and Palestine. You'll have your hands full, but if you hold onto those 4 areas, even the destruction of Greece will be of little worry. If your border lands hold fast, the conquest of Aethiopia will afford Egypt even less trouble. From there, plans to expand Westward, Eastward or Northward can easily be done just remember, go for places that afford choke points. If you move East/North, you cant stop. Westward along Africa, affords more safety but eventually puts you into the same position along your North/East borders.

These are just my ideas, based off what I have seen on the Map. The Romans will lose lots of land, so why not plan ahead and make the enemy go where you want? The true reason Rome fell, was the lack of planning and their ideals of holding the whole of the Empire as it was.