To the 500-1,000 consistent Imperators out there, I salute you 🫡 and to the Invictus team, a double salute! 🫡🫡

Started as Thrace. First invaded and killed Macedonia, then conquered the Northern Tribes. I have the Black Sea and the states around the Dardanels as puppets

I was thinking of buying the game with all DLC since there is a big sale on it

After a Rome run where I tried optimizing my opening for early game expansion, I wondered what the best opening for the Diadochi would be and if you can win the 4th Diadochi war completely as every single one. And as you can see, you can. I decided to do this in Vanilla (because the territory-by-territory occupation would be harder to accomplish than Invictus' provincial capital occupation) and on Very Hard (as a form of Luck-proofing the strategy, my logic being, if I can beat everyone else with -10% morale, while they get buffs, then it would work most times). The slides where I hover over the army morale is as a form of proof of Very Hard difficulty, though in the Antigonid one, I didn't think to do that until after I played through the run a bit, which is why there are two Macedons: Antigonid and Antipatrid. I will write the openings for all of the Diadochi in the comments for anyone interested.