My first impression about EB: very impressing!

[Amaris]

Hi,

a few days ago I played RTW v1.5 with "Total Realism"-Mod, but I didn't play it the first time and it got a bit boring.
Therefore I looked for other mods and downloaded EB 1.1
I wasn't quite sure whether I should really play it on difficulty VH/M and then started with M/M - when I reached 264 B.C. I found that the AI behaved much too passive, so I searched for old postings in which the difficulty level was discussed, and found out that playing EB with RTW-BI.exe may also help making the game more challenging.
I never liked (vanilla) BI very much and had at first to search for it in my box with old video games.
But now I'm playing EB with BI.exe on difficulty H/M and I must say I'm very impressed!
The game feels simply "right" now. EB ist really a great mod, I'm very interested in history and EB is really fantastic in this respect.
H/M is not too hard and not too easy. The AI is quite active on the strategic map and even it's tactics in battle seem to have improved with BI. At least in my last battle the AI tried to flank me with cavalry the first time since I play RTW at all. I never saw such manouvers in RTW before.

Thanks for this great work!

Greetings,
Amaris

BTW:
Sorry for possible mistakes in grammar and orthography, english isn't my native language ( I'm a germanic barbarian )

[johnhughthom]

Welcome to the org Amaris, good to hear you are enjoying the mod. Which faction are you playing? The Sweboz perhaps as a Germanic Barbarian?

[Amaris]

At the moment I'm playing just the Roman Republic, because I think it's the best way to start with a new mod which you don't know yet.
But I'll surely try other factions since I intend to play EB for quite a while

[artaxerxes]

Try one of the eastern factions. What I found the most exhilerating about EB when I first started playing it was the addition of Central Asia. Sogdiana and Baktria, Arachosia and Gedrosia... That's something quite unlike vanilla Rome, where the world ends with the upper areas of Mesopotamia