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If you're looking for something a bit more minor, then you may wish to try out some of the more obscure mini-mods. These change little things in the game, such as fixing a bug, adding a few mercenaries and enhancing balance.

If you decide to patch up to to v1.5, then then this community fix "BugFixer" by player1 can easily resolve quite a few graphical and technical glitches included within it. It doesn't resolve any major bugs though - they are, sadly, hardcoded into the game's mechanics.

If you wish to see a more balanced game, then the Vannila Essential Pack can help. In R:TW certain factions always rule the map and gameplay is incredibly fast paced. This mod, requiring version 1.5, resolves some of these issues and helps all factions expand more equally. In addition to this, it adds extra mercenaries to regions.

The Vanilla Balancing Mod also has similar aims to the Vanilla Essentials Pack. There are versions for R:TW, BI and the Alexander mini expansion pack. You can get that here.

Both of the above contain the fixes contained in player1's BugFixer.

R:TW comes with an inconvenient faction unlocking system as well as having certain factions disabled. However, this can be negated through careful modification of a certain gaming file. If you choose to add no mods yet, then this is an essential change:

To play as all factions, simply enter "C:/Program Files/Activision/Rome - Total War/data/world/maps/campaign/imperial_campaign" (should you have the standard version, not Gold) or "C:/Program Files/Activision/Rome - Total War/data/world/maps/campaign/imperial_campaign" (should you have the Gold edition).

Simply select the file name "descr_strat.txt" (or simply "descr_strat" if file extensions are hidden).

The file will currently look like this:

All you have to do is change it to (the spaces at the front are used using the tab keys):

Now you can open up R:TW and play as any faction that was previously non-playable.