Is there any reason to play Imperator if you've already played Crusader Kings, Europa Universalis and Victoria?
Imperator isnt very good.
This is the strategy to do in every game in Imperator as anyone that isn't a barbarian. Works 100% of the time, no console commands or mods needed
Non-egypt strategy:
1.Befriend seleucids or antogonids (or if partly, lucky both, usually I can do both). Or just antogonids if seleucid and vice versa
2. Declare war on egypt, bring in seleucids or antogonids or both
3. Grats you got a huge portion of the nile, alexandria and a massive population. You are now a world power
4. Wait a while and get more of egypt. Better to not declare war right after just to have time to convert and what not.
Egypt strategy (a bit harder this)
1. Ally seleucids (easy to do since they start with friends with the ruler)
2. Declare war on antogonids
3. Grats you probably were able to conquer all the way to Syria region and able to take antogonids capital+the 2 mountain pass forts
Side note: May need mercenaries, depends how good seleucids do
If you are antogonids, ally egypt and take a ton of seleucids up to the capital region. Win the game. First make sure to get that one city in greece from macedon, its that one province in the middle part of the coast, west of athens I believe. You need that to get a special (positive) event for 10 years as antogonids.
Every game I do that and become a world power.
You can do this as sparta too, and take egypt. Athens. Anyone in greece and close enough to egypt or antogonids. No matter who you play (as long as they can interact with egypt), you can take egypt and gain very good land, amazing capital region and a ton of pop
Too easy. Sure you can choose to not do this, but this shows how easy the game is.
Eu4, CK2 and victoria 2 are much more difficult and can't be gamed like that (or I suck at them? But its much harder to do it than imperator even if I just suck at them)