Overview
This is a guide on how to colonise or colonize in Imperator Rome faster than normal. Through the use of slavery and mass migration, it is possible for empires to quickly grab large amounts of land.
Requirements
To colonise quickly you’re going to need to move the following units in a province adjacent to the one you want to start colonising in.
You will need:
1x Freeman/Citizen/Tribesman of your religion and culture
9x Slaves of your religion and culture
$50 for each province you want to colonise
Method
Normally when you colonise, the city you used gets a debuff that prevents it from being used to colonise again for a period of time. However we can circumvent this by moving enough people to allow the newly colonised province the ability to colonise. This lets us skip the time limit entirely and we can snake a line of new provinces into our empire.
Here’s a step by step guide.
1) Have 1 freeman/citizen/tribesman of your culture in the province adjacent to the one you want to colonise
2) Move 9 slaves into the same adjacent province (this can be done by going ->View Pops->Move Pops Here on the city interface)
3) Press colonise on the new province
4) Move the slaves into the new province
5) Press colonise on the next province
6) Repeat steps 2 and 3 until you run out of land or money
Tips
Try to snake your expansion in a way that you don’t have to backtrace your slaves at all. See below.
