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[Humble Scholar]

Hmmm…. My question seems to have stirred up a lot of activity here. I thought that the very next post answered it quite well being the limits of the faction slots ect. Mind you that I very much realize that such a war was impossible in reality due to the mentioned desserts/mountains which is probably one of the many reasons why it did not happen in actual history; After all that’s what stopped Carthage from invading Rome itself at one point (if I remember that correctly).
Now. I would like to point out that I did in fact find a “Rome vs. China” mod out there since asking about this. it was for RTW. I was only able to use it on an older version of the game and it was (in my opinion) very unrealistic as far as how they portrayed China, not to mention that they used vanilla roman factions. I also found a solely eastern mod which I have no idea how accurate it was but it seemed to be somewhat “medivalish” in time due to a unified china and gunpowder technology. Even so it brought about a question that I haven’t been able to answer. Is it possible to “mix mods” with a bit of scripting? If so then people could probably finesse a mod of sorts; however inaccurate it may be.

[Ludens]

Is it possible to “mix mods” with a bit of scripting? If so then people could probably finesse a mod of sorts; however inaccurate it may be.

Unfortunately not. It is possible to (manually) merge the data files, however if the mod makes a lot of changes (like EB) they won't be compatible. Not to mention that EB is already at or near the limits for map size, number of cities, units and faction.

[Irishmafia2020]

I'm not a supporter of putting China in this mod at all, but as for it being a historical impossibility, well Greeks in India seems pretty damned far fetched as well, and that happened....!