I have played vanilla Rome II for over 220 hours now, and honestly have had a lot of fun. I am not opposed to mods, but generally like to play vanilla to get a good bas experience first, then start looking into mods. Most of the time they don't stick.

Well, the DeI (Divide et Impera) mod, so big it takes three parts in the workshop, is fabulous!

It felt like a polished game and I love it.

Just thought I would throw that out there.