ALEXANDER EB

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Originally Posted by fomalhaut

in my opinion it's pretty unbalanced and comicly, and mostly artificially, difficult. i want all the good things with this mod, like the improved buildings, but the enemy stacks are just silly. not realistic at all.

you literally just gave units super omega chevrons and huge walls solely for the sake of difficulty, not realism. considering ancient military composition there's no way minor kingdoms and unorganized regions are going to have A FULL STACK OF HYPER ELITES. first, how did they get to be so damn experienced? these are stronger than Sartes stacks, that's not realistic. 2nd, how does a small kingdom or region afford an entire professional army that never dies? no, really?

Sartes represents the strong military and other forces making taking the Alps and Neravaci tribes difficult, it makes sense because he acts as a way to represent factions that couldn't make it into the game by making them significant. but for Saba, for instance, the surrounding tribes ARE NOT GOING TO BE FIELDING SUPER STACKS MORE POWERFUL THAN SABA, LET ALONE ARCHE SELEUKAIA. It just does not make sense in sense of realism, and is certainly unbalanced and silly in regards to game balance where every pathetic region is somehow more powerful and experienced than the entire fighting forces of organized and powerful kingdoms.

This isn't giving Pergamon big stacks to represent them as a political power, it's giving comical amounts of experience to an unrealistic amount of soldiers to every minor principality.

Hell, some of the stacks exceed the fighting age population available to most of the lands.

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Seconded

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Originally Posted by Maksimus

hmm,

take this argument on TWCenter forums there are many players that would differ, also, if you dont know how to play RTW every stack is too much. Game is unbalanced and not realistic in the basis, and populations can not even be expressed ingame. I suggest you wait for a new game and do not play the mod if you dont like it :)

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except I would like the good things you've done with this as well.

LOL, don't try to imply i'm bad at the game because i find full stacks of triple gold chevroned units to be unrealistic

Hi guys, I have a problem when loading EB with EAM from Steam.
It says:
script error in eb/data/export_descr_buildings.txt, at line 40566, column 60.

Eastern infantry indian spearmen.

What I am missing?

Thanks for the mod!

Emp i dont know how to help you with that, 1st time i see someone has edb prob, even tho I havent been here for a while =)

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Originally Posted by fomalhaut

in my opinion it's pretty unbalanced and comicly, and mostly artificially, difficult. i want all the good things with this mod, like the improved buildings, but the enemy stacks are just silly. not realistic at all.

you literally just gave units super omega chevrons and huge walls solely for the sake of difficulty, not realism. considering ancient military composition there's no way minor kingdoms and unorganized regions are going to have A FULL STACK OF HYPER ELITES. first, how did they get to be so damn experienced? these are stronger than Sartes stacks, that's not realistic. 2nd, how does a small kingdom or region afford an entire professional army that never dies? no, really?

Sartes represents the strong military and other forces making taking the Alps and Neravaci tribes difficult, it makes sense because he acts as a way to represent factions that couldn't make it into the game by making them significant. but for Saba, for instance, the surrounding tribes ARE NOT GOING TO BE FIELDING SUPER STACKS MORE POWERFUL THAN SABA, LET ALONE ARCHE SELEUKAIA. It just does not make sense in sense of realism, and is certainly unbalanced and silly in regards to game balance where every pathetic region is somehow more powerful and experienced than the entire fighting forces of organized and powerful kingdoms.

This isn't giving Pergamon big stacks to represent them as a political power, it's giving comical amounts of experience to an unrealistic amount of soldiers to every minor principality.

Hell, some of the stacks exceed the fighting age population available to most of the lands.

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What he said. Full stacks of chevroned, elite units for every podunk town are just not realistic. Full stacks of mundane units would already be somewhat strange, but if they were a normal mix, sure, why not... But as it stands, this is just weird. I mean, improved AI, ok, artificially inflating difficulty by unrealistically having every town defended by this kind of stack doesn't do it for me. Sadly, because the rest of the mod is amazing.

I really wish he would offer an alternate mod without this fundamentally broken issue, the rest is quite good

I tried to download EAEM from Filefront and it looks like the link is broken...

Can someone tell me where i can download the newest EAEM, because the original download links are broken.

Hallo guys (and girls?) and Merry Christmas!

I want to give EB a go with the Alexander Engine.
I read the instructions in this post and I did not understand some things.
How do I "Change the target line of EB.exe single player"?
I mean I know how to change a line but change this one into what?
Do I need to do anything else?
In what order?

Thanks in advance!

is link borken for everyone?

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Originally Posted by Maksimus

is link borken for everyone?

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Filefront is as dead as Latin language, your fixes links are still working.

okay its up again, i promise i will try make final fixes when I get the energy D: in the mean time anyone here has a list of bugs that i can simply fix now and not run through all the thread responses? :( such as indian speaman?

I need confirmation if anyone got the reform working 'on spot' please thank you. :3

Heya there,

as I wrote in that other thread I'm able to finally play EB on Alex (theoretically - see below).
I first tried jirisys' megamod which ran fine (more or less) but ran into a seriously annoying crash issue:
I was able to start my first campaign (Romani) and to play (with the occasional, not permanent crash now and then) to about 235. The AI is so very much improved that I decided to try a campaign as Hayasdan as well, just to see how Romani perform now when they are controlled by the AI.
But I couldn't start the campaign with them. As soon as I clicked on the arrow that should initiate the loading process the game immediately crashed.
I tried that a few times (and with different factions) and always got the same crash.

So I grumbled a bit and then decided to follow Maksimus' explanation for the manual installation of the "plain Alex.exe usage" (not the Extended Alex mod he also provides), since the link for that mod is dead.
Went more or less smooth, the explanation is well-written and quite perfectly understandable.

I installed a few (very few) mods as well (win conditions, phalanx mod and Hannibals RSII environment).
And now I run into the same crash again!

I did a search (not only this forum) but I either don't use the right key words or I am indeed the only one that ever encountered that odd thing.

So my question just is - did any of you have (or hear of) this?
And/Or do you have any idea what I could do?

Thanks in advance,
Shadowwalker


Edit:
Redid it completely (deinstalling everything and starting with the installation of R:TW again), didn't install ANY mod except the manual steps Maksimus explained in the first post - same result. I choose a faction, I click on "start campaign", I see my desktop.
Bah.

Greetings.

I am a devoted EB player, but often wish for a better AI.

I want to play EB with the Alexander engine (only)

Where is that file now? The link is broken.

Do I need BI installed? If I need BI, is the best thing to buy RTW Gold?

Are there more instructions that apply to EB with Alex engine only?

Thank you!

Yes, the link is broken, we must wait for someone to reupload it.

No, you don't need BI. However, if you want it anyway, it's included in RTW Gold & RTW Anthology. You can get it standalone as well

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In details:

1. Install Rome Total War + 1,3 and 1,5 patches.
2. Install Alexander expansion or extract the Alx.exe file only into your RTW folder.
3. Install EB 11 and EB 12.
4. EB fixes.

a) To play EB with only improved engine you need use
5. ALX engine files.

b) If you want to play full modification you need to use
5. EAEM files.
5a. EAEM fixes.

6. Change the target line of EB.exe single player.

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How to adjust the target line of your EB.exe
>Go to EB shortcut - left clck on the shortcut and chose properties - then - change the Target by copy-paste method

"<drive letter>:\<directory path you've installed RTW into>\RomeTW-ALX.exe" -mod:eb -show_err -nm -noalexander
"...\Rome - Total War\RomeTW-ALX.exe" -mod:eb -show_err -nm -noalexander

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That's all you need basicly

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Originally Posted by danio43us67

Yes, the link is broken, we must wait for someone to reupload it.

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http://ifile.it/o5wupd1

~Jirisys (You can worship me now, I won't mind)

As you don't mind, I skip the worshipping part and just say "Thanks a lot, jirisys!". :2thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by jirisys

You can worship me now, I won't mind

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Originally Posted by Shadowwalker

As you don't mind, I skip the worshipping part and just say "Thanks a lot, jirisys!". :2thumbsup:

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Err OK? (And no I'm not going to worship you, but thanky anyway) :smiley:

its up

http://www.MegaShare.com/3915904

ill add fixes later

Thank you, Maksimus. :2thumbsup:

Hey guys. I'm new to this forum so forgive me if I'm posting in the wrong thread. I'm a PC tech who's doing this mod gratis for a customer. I'm also an avid gamer and am no stranger to mods. I've been trying to get EB to work with steam for the past week and am just about at a loss. I've tried several different methods/guides on getting this to work with steam. I have also tried several fixes. I also have Roma Surrectum II installed (working). When I try to launch from the supplied shortcuts in the alex folder I just get the "can't find steam" error. I've also applied the "-mod:eb -show_err -nm -noalexander" fix. So, when I try to launch from steam It seems to want to work. I get the splash screen but it errors out and freezes at that point with this error: "Failed to read censored word dictionary file:eb/data//chat_filter.san". Is RSII conflicting with EB? Can I have both? Or am I just doing something wrong? I'm certain I'm installing everything correctly. Thanks very very much for any help!

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Originally Posted by hakmann84

Hey guys. I'm new to this forum so forgive me if I'm posting in the wrong thread. I'm a PC tech who's doing this mod gratis for a customer. I'm also an avid gamer and am no stranger to mods. I've been trying to get EB to work with steam for the past week and am just about at a loss. I've tried several different methods/guides on getting this to work with steam. I have also tried several fixes. I also have Roma Surrectum II installed (working). When I try to launch from the supplied shortcuts in the alex folder I just get the "can't find steam" error. I've also applied the "-mod:eb -show_err -nm -noalexander" fix. So, when I try to launch from steam It seems to want to work. I get the splash screen but it errors out and freezes at that point with this error: "Failed to read censored word dictionary file:eb/data//chat_filter.san". Is RSII conflicting with EB? Can I have both? Or am I just doing something wrong? I'm certain I'm installing everything correctly. Thanks very very much for any help!

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Link used for install (only I followed the directions for installing into the steam alex folder):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL1-21m9BNI

chat filter san is in Alexander folder when u install the game it appears, other than that it is in the files i uploaded D: you have to copy it to your eb folder

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Originally Posted by Maksimus

chat filter san is in Alexander folder when u install the game it appears, other than that it is in the files i uploaded D: you have to copy it to your eb folder

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Thanks! I'll try that out tonight when I get home from my other job and let you know how it goes. :2thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by Maksimus

chat filter san is in Alexander folder when u install the game it appears, other than that it is in the files i uploaded D: you have to copy it to your eb folder

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THANK YOU SO SO SO SO SO MUCH!!!!! I feel kinda stupid now... LOL! I can't believe that after a week of screwing with this thing that it turned out to be something so simple. Again, thank you very much! :laugh4:

Maybe I'm special needs, but I'm unable to locate a working link for the zipped file to play EB with the Alex engine. The zshare link on the first page is dead as is the one Jirisys posted a few months back.

Anyone able to provide a fresh link for the "EB12_on_ALX.exe" zip? Thanks

*UPDATE* After a third search I slapped myself for somehow looking over a working link at the TW Center. Here's a link where the files been posted for any that still need:

http://mjollnir.twcenter.net/forums/...d.php?t=518308

is this working now?
http://www.MegaShare.com/4333876

Works for me.

tada

http://www.filebox.com/qrvlluugm8cx

I've posted this in the general forum, but I'll take a shot here as well in case it's Alex related. I'm running the stock EB 1.2 with Alex and suddenly (around 232) I've lost the ability to recruit mercenary generals from my type IV settlements. Even if I capture new ones and build fresh type IVs. Has anyone else ever run into this problem and figured out a solution?

Can someone upload the alex.exe ENGINE mod files that work with TrivialScript? The zshare link is not working

EB12_on_ALX.exe!.7z (ai files)
http://www.gamefront.com/files/22193..._ALX.exe%21.7z
EAEM (full)
http://www.gamefront.com/files/22194129/EAEM.exe
1st fixes for eaem
http://www.gamefront.com/files/22194...es+02092009.7z
2nd fixes for eaem
http://www.gamefront.com/files/22194...es+04172009.7z

works fine right?

Hi guys,

I've followed all the installation instruction, I only what the improved engine not the full mod. However I cant get past the loading screen as an error pops up saying unable to read the "chat_filter" file.

I'm pretty certain I've got the target line correct for the EB short cut. (see below)

"C:\Program Files (x86)\The Creative Assembly\Rome - Total War\RomeTW-ALX.exe" -mod:eb -show_err -nm -noalexander

I'm just wondering have I extracted the "EB12_on_ALX.exe!" file in to the wrong location? I've placed it in the EB file in the "C:\Program Files (x86)\The Creative Assembly\Rome - Total War" file.

Hope this makes sense!? Thanks for your time guys

I have a problem. The files on GameFront seem to be inaccessible. I keep getting errors. This may be due to problems on GameFront (I've had similar problems today with another file) or with these files specifically.

Indeed, the Alexander EB GameFront files are inaccessible for me as well. Can anyone re-upload these please, perhaps to another file hosting service? I would very much like to play EB on the Alexander engine.

Sadly:

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Can I download Game Front files from any territory in the world?
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Colombia
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With that said, Game Front doesn't work for me either (403 Forbidden error), and I am in Belgium, which isn't listed.

Tried a proxy, but so far no luck :(.

I've tried the download using a German proxy to no avail (403 - Forbidden). Can no one re-post these files on this site or another file hosting service?

For those that can't download this mod, a solution would be to use this mod pack https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...ack-for-EB-1-2 . In certain ways it's better since it includes everything this mod has to offer and more :).

no it doesnt, none of the mods in the history of this game has as much content as mine, not near as much xD

also, i never had time to write on all the things i made active here, like the Amazon city of gold and silver and diamonds far up the North east, takes u years to get there but when you do... you will never be the same


here is rapidshare

http://rapidshare.com/files/2351588630/EAEM.exe

rapidshare should work now

nevermind. I just dropped it in the wrong folder or something. This is working fine for me. Thanks

hello. i must say that this mod is(was) great till i had to fight barbarian army and first CTD happened which told me that there is no german officers skin in data. then i remembered that i forgot to install fixes and i installed them both, but now i cant even load any new campain it CTD all time. what shell i do i re instaled everithing few timess, and it looks like before fixes it will let me start a new campain and play before i engage with sime babrarian army, but after fixes it just CTD whenever i just choos faction and hit start button, it just dont let me do anything :( help pls i realy havent seen better mod than this and i really want to play it.

did you try reinstaling whole game please?

download works for everyone?

im modding for last version and adding

rs2 enviroments and strat map textures,mtw2 trees for the strat map and ultimate weather 3 parts,

i edited script so campaings and AI is more alive, um, edited some cities as well :)

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Originally Posted by Maksimus

im modding for last version and adding

rs2 enviroments and strat map textures,mtw2 trees for the strat map and ultimate weather 3 parts,

i edited script so campaings and AI is more alive, um, edited some cities as well :)

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So the download links for this new mischief :rolleyes: of yours? I was going to install the Alexander version but the 66 pages topic full of links seems kind of hectic at the moment..

its not done yet D:

This works great! I am playing on Hard Campaign and Very Hard Battle and have lost several battles already. A.I. hides in woods (at least when I started in a wooded area) and throw stones from their slingers at me and it took a while to find them. I am in year 267 but having a blast just playing Rome. Thank you Modders for
Europa Barbororum!!

I am working on final version, there will be more active AI and basically campaign will be even harder.

cant trigger the "March of Time" event, anyone else has the problem?

mod is done, just have to wrap the screens and upload, very little testing

need testers

https://mega.co.nz/#!9QIWXZgI!arWnNM...mx_ALLc6xMa1X0

Run EAEM.lnk to launch

thanks!

confirmed its working,

if anyone plays pls do 5 years of few nations and let me know please for any bugs

also, please send me some screen shots from game in order to add them in loading screens, thanks!

[QUOTE=Maksimus;1741047]
:Originally Posted by Gerhard :
There is a common bug when you try to install Alexander..
Most of us use default install location after which is always ''C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War\..'' but if you use any other HDisk drive to install Alexander - you have a problem!

The installer always checks drive C for diskspace regardless of installationdrive. If you try to install ALEX and the installer quits with "error -1" (or something like that) you are propably a victim of this bug.

To play EB with ALEX.exe you have to copy 2 files from the ALEX-CD to your harddrive!

The easy one first:
Copy ''RomeTW-ALX.exe'' that can be found on the CD into your RTW installation folder, into the same directory where ''RomeTW.exe'' is and/or ''BI.exe'' (if you have one)
The second file is ''chat_filter.san''! This one is also on the CD, but it is packed in CAB files.

Here you need ''i6comp'' program
To get i6comp go to:
http://programmerstools.org/node/123

I will describe how to use i6comp to extract the CAB files, other tools can be found on the net - or google for it.

Unzip the download in some directory, say ''D:\extract''. This should give you, among others, the file ''i6comp.exe''.
From the ALEX CD copy the files ''data1.cab'', ''data1.hdr'' and ''data2.cab'' into the same directory.
Open a Text-editor and create a file ''i6comp.bat'' with the following line:
''i6comp e -r data1.cab''

Save the file in ''D:\extract''.

Doubleclick ''i6comp.bat''.

This will extract A LOT of files and may take some time to complete.
When its done you should find ''chat_filter.san'' in ''D:\extract''.
Copy ''chat_filter.san'' to ''<your RomeEB directory>\EB\data''.

I've installed EB on a new computer but a window launches saying "Failed to read censored word dictionary file: data//chat_filter.san". I have installed RTW, Alexander, EB 1.1, 1.2 and Jirisys' Rome: Total War - Alexander - Europa Barbarorum Mega Mod Pack. So I followed your instructions but I'm wondering how long it takes to extract. Its been about and hour now and its still extracting (I think). Is something wrong?

Hi,

chat_filter.san is a file you would have to copy from Alexander data folder into EB one. However i cannot 100% confirm if coping itself would work alone as ur using other mod.

for EAEM you can simply download the new link and play it separately from your current game, just save it in any random location.

Ok I tried installing EAEM and fixes, your screen will load but it still asks for chat_filter.san. I copied the chat_filter.san from the Alexander data folder into the EB one but that didn't work.

try downloading the last link i posted the 2 gig one and run eaem.ink, must - must run, u wont regret

Hi Maksimus and thanks for your great work!
I haven't played yet because i didn't make it to install it properly.I'm a little noob in these matters of installation.
If you have time please i want you to make a tutorial if possible with the new version you made.
How do i install Alexander,must i install Barbarian invasion first or directly after vanilla?
Thanks for your time in this great mod.

just download this

need testers

https://mega.co.nz/#!9QIWXZgI!arWnNM...mx_ALLc6xMa1X0

and Run EAEM.lnk to launch

Thanks for quick answer but how i install?
I can't make it from post #1,any help?

1st download from link
2nd run eaem.ink

... thats it

Yes but no need to do a fresh install first of Rome and Alexander?

u dont

Ok Maks,many thanks for help.I'll test it thoroughly )

updating on game more :3 anyone tested so far??

Hi Maks,with Greeks and Quart hadast everything's fine here!I don't know how but Romans gets more powerfull at the beginning than vanilla EB,
i like it but is this a bug or they starts with increased money?

yeah, its coins and structured being upgraded as well,

do you like remapped units and having Hannibal? :P

Yes,this is the best EB game i've ever had )
The battle engine too improved very well didn't expect so much difference.
Hannibal is the best reason to start a campaign with Carthaginians!

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yeah, its coins and structured being upgraded as well,

do you like remapped units and having Hannibal? :P

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Hey sorry if this is a dumb question, but when I go to download it I'm asked for a descryption key? Where do I find that?

https://mega.co.nz/#F!VIJRlYoC!2z584Ad8IgMW1tC7wr9DPg

Hi All,
I played Alexander EB for a long time and think it is really a great game. But now I get this error message and the game crashes when I fight Seleucid armies with Persian Hoplites. I checked the textures folder and it seems the file for the Kardaka Arteshtar (Persian Hoplites) is missing. What can I do? I would be very gratefull for any help!

Generic Error: Failed to find texture 'eb/data/models_unit/textures/arteshkar kardaka parthia'.

just make a copy of any texture and name it just that - game should go on, also, i cant seem to find that code in dmb file, just reinstall the game

Hey Max, I have a little problem with your EAEM bundle from MEGA.. I already changed my schortcut to the correct folders i have my game extracted to, yet when i use it the game loads fine but the window is small, theres no way turning it up to full screen, with the different graphical changes in options not applying properly, causing my game to have a low framerate..

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Activision\Rome - Total War\rometw-alx.exe" -mod:eb -show_err -nm -noalexander -ne

remove the -ne and you will have full mode

I like this mod a lot. But it sometimes crashes when i end turns. I load it and it works without crashing. But only this version of mod does it.

Also is it just me or is the game laggier? Big battle game lags a lot. I got 8 gb and game is on SSD. also 290 rx is my graphics card.

These 2 reasons make the game really hard to enjoy to fullest. But otherwise great mod.

thank you for the feedback, please keep it coming:bow: - I plan to go through the forum list page by page and implement it as soon as I organize myself.

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just download this

need testers

https://mega.co.nz/#!9QIWXZgI!arWnNM...mx_ALLc6xMa1X0

and Run EAEM.lnk to launch

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So we don't have to follow all the other steps anymore only to run EAEM.lnk?

just download from the main page and play - you will see the eaem mod ink there