axe.exe vs rtw.exe vs bi.exe whitch is the best?

**muha** · 07-26-2008, 08:24

I currently use RTW.exe, mainly because my alex game refuses to work properly (more on that later), and I cant find my BI cd.

I just want to find out from you guys, in your opinion, whitch one to play EB with.

P.S. How do you play the mod through the expansions anyhow?

P.S.2 Any one ever had this problem when you started alex.exe, but nothing happened. Tried again to only get the "cant run to instances of the same program" error, and find out on your task manager that alex.exe is indeed runing, but its not on the task bar, just sitting there eating away at my CPU speed.

**a completely inoffensive name** · 07-26-2008, 08:45

I think the general opinion is that alex.exe is the best to run EB on but i am not sure about that as i do not even use it myself because i am very lazy.

**Maion Maroneios** · 07-26-2008, 11:44

Another of those thread like this? What is this, a subtitution for the LS thread? Listen, each one has his or her own pesonal tastes, others like the BI engine, others the ALEX one and others don't bother and just stick to plain RTW. You could search previous threads for the pro's and con's of each engine and make your own decision you know...

**TWFanatic** · 07-26-2008, 16:24

If this thread offends you, don't respond. This issue is not addressed in the FAQ and searching often doesn't work as one doesn't know the correct terms to search for. There is also that obnoxious feature of the search mechanism that allows you to search only once every 300 seconds or so. Honestly, do you run a search before every thread you start?

I remain interested to see what responses people give as I am considering buying BI or ALEX.

**Che Roriniho** · 07-26-2008, 16:45

Originally Posted by TWFanatic

If this thread offends you, don't respond. This issue is not addressed in the FAQ and searching often doesn't work as one doesn't know the correct terms to search for. There is also that obnoxious feature of the search mechanism that allows you to search only once every 300 seconds or so. Honestly, do you run a search before every thread you start?

I remain interested to see what responses people give as I am considering buying BI or ALEX.

Hear Hear. Incidently, I know RTW.exe has been given a bad press about the lack of Naval Invasions, but they seem fine to me. Haven't had any problem with it. slight problem with lots of tiny armies (1 or 2 units in each, all next to each other.) But this only appears to happen between 2 AI armies, hen the Player is at war with someone (as far as I can tell), all seems fine.

**mlc82** · 07-26-2008, 17:04

Alex.exe led to me losing a campaign for the first time in history since RTW came out, on "hard" difficulty so it wasn't just going insane as usual either. That's all I need to make Alex my favorite.

**Maion Maroneios** · 07-27-2008, 11:48

Originally Posted by TWFanatic

If this thread offends you, don't respond. This issue is not addressed in the FAQ and searching often doesn't work as one doesn't know the correct terms to search for. There is also that obnoxious feature of the search mechanism that allows you to search only once every 300 seconds or so. Honestly, do you run a search before every thread you start?

I remain interested to see what responses people give as I am considering buying BI or ALEX.

LS threads should also not be responded to (by others insted of the EB team memebrs), but many do so. Also, there are quite a few topics with polls and such related to the subject and they are quite fresh. And about your last question, yes most of the times I do. At least i search a few pages before to see if there is any related topic to mine.

**bigmilt16** · 07-27-2008, 12:55

I know I have inquired many times about this subject, but I don't see the harm in asking. It certainly isn't as pointless as LS, because choosing the right exe. can seriously lead to a totally different gameplay experience depending on the faction you play as and the difficulty you seek.

**muha** · 07-27-2008, 07:20

Well, too bad my alex.exe simply does not want to work, and I got no idea why at all.

*sad face*

**Captain Trek** · 07-27-2008, 09:35

Since I got Alx working, I've started a new campaign as Epiros, and whilst the battle AI seems to be slightly less inane overall, the campaign AI seems to have this bizare habbit of having its more powerful armies stand around and do nothing (as a Roman half-stack is doing currently as I have taken Arpi and are about to take Capua)... I don't know if this is to do with Alx or if it was always like that...

The most significant thing I've noticed, however, is that the AI now tends to play very aggressively with its skirmishers (and sometimes even its missile troops)... In smaller battles (where the AI has ~1/4 stack or less), the AI's skirmishers (even ones like Akonkistai) tend to charge straight onto my infantry (sometimes not even throwing their javelins), the AI's own infantry coming in right behind them, only to have their formation disrupted by the skirmishers... I've also had skirmishers charge at my flanking cavalry on a few occasions...

**mlc82** · 07-27-2008, 20:38

Originally Posted by muha

Well, too bad my alex.exe simply does not want to work, and I got no idea why at all.

*sad face*

If you don't mind the other additions he included, Lz3's mod made it as simple as installing Alex, then just dropping his mod folder into the RTW directory. I almost ripped all of my hair out trying to get Alex to work right the first time manually, then became even angrier when I realized that my Generals and Governors were living to be 120+ yrs old. No problems of those sort with Lz3's mod, and I'm loving the game under Alex!