What other mods do you play?

[konny]

So how is RTR and Invasio Barbarorum? I was wondering if I could get some feedback from people who actually played it. How's the gameplay, the historical accuracy, the units, the strat map & traits system?

I play, and recommend, IBFD.

- Gamplay is very fine (even though I had restatted the units according to the EB tables, but that's a matter of preferences).

- Accuracy is excellent, as far as I know about these things (don't ask me details on the 5th Century Berbers or the White Huns). For the Romans you have tons of different units to recreate the Late Roman Army according to the Notitia Dignitatum. And also the Barbarians all have their unique units and are not a collection of uniform "warbands".

- The units are fine (some glitches, but can live with, and they are still worked on). For example you have a lot of different Comitatenses Legions depending on where you recruite them. No more Vanilla BI units, as far as I have seen.

- The start map has the size of the one of EB (from Ireland to India), province maximum seems to be reached. Interessting trick that has factions hording even though they controll settlements. descr_strat has some problems with FMs not attached to the family tree.

- The trait system seems to be the one of Vanilla BI. But there are a number of new ancillaries representing the Roman offices (Dux, Comes, Magister Militum). Some were allready in Vanilla BI, but several are new in IBFD.

[Ibrahim]

I play, and recommend, IBFD.

-Gamplay is very fine (even though I had restatted the units according to the EB tables, but that's a matter of preferences).

- Accuracy is excellent, as far as I know about these things (don't ask me details on the 5th Century Berbers or the White Huns). For the Romans you have tons of different units to recreate the Late Roman Army according to the Notitia Dignitatum. And also the Barbarians all have their unique units and are not a collection of uniform "warbands".

1-so I'm not the only one who did that, eh?

2-the arabs (lakhmids) are being remade along more historical lines by JH with the help of Gen.James Wolfe, (straight swords, little to no silk, accurate garb) for IBFD: IJ 3. the romans have been reskinned by JH and the sassanids were reskinned by JH with the help of a certain Gaiten (in the twcenter). as for the berbers, JH is planning on making a version for Alexander total war, so as to get around the model limit, and then do the berber. you might even see a new model for Julianus' lonesome in the Alex version.

So, I too recmmend IBFD: It is a very good mod now, and will be even better later on

[Hax]

- Invasio Barbarorum: Flagellum Dei
- Rome - Total Realism: Platinum Edition [with MNM and ExRM (depends on what I feel like)]
- Roma Surrectum 1.5
- Rise of Persia (playing it now, actually)

[TruePraetorian]

I wanted to try out RTR, so I did. But when I installed it, I relised about half way through that I had installed it over my data folder...so now I can't play EB until I re-install it

But as for RTR, it's like vanilla rome with new units and stuff. Nice, but IMO it's not EB.

[Ludens]

Napoleonic TW2, but just occasionally. I am a rather poor MPer.

[Recoil]

to all the people suggesting IBFD- while I agree it's fun does no one find that Roman units have too much morale, whereas other factions have none? I remember routing entire armies of barbarians and reconquering spain with too much ease. also whilst i loved the number of units the romans could field there were too many, some of which could only be trained in certain settlements, which made me end up losing entire units of men as i wasn't able to retrain them. personally it wasn't for me.

recently i've discovered another BI timeframe mod called "Age of Darkness." It's considerably old (at least 3 years) and whilst it shows on the map i love the gameplay- playing as the WRE i'm yet to be backstabbed by the ERE as in vanilla and the AI is fairly decent in battles. If you want a mod from BI's timeframe that extends the map slightly, has better gameplay and is generally more fun, i honestly recommend it

[Reno Melitensis]

For the past 5 months i only played EB, and or tried minor mods like Troy and Chivalry. Goth may well remember his mod Imperium Julianorum, right now a new version is being made with more accurate Roman units and shield patterns according to the Notitia Dignitatum, its much more fun than IBFD.

Cheers.

[Skandinav]

I tend to try out many mods as I stumble upon promising ones, although mostly for a short time and seemingly always with a return to EB, but for the time being I´m having a lot of fun with FATW, a lore-based fourth age Middle-earth mod, as even though I´m not much for fiction I´ve always loved Tolkien´s books. I have also tried out LOTR:TW, another Middle-earth mod, but rather based on the movies, quite a good mod no matter what one may hold against the hollywood interpretation and rendition, I prefer FATW though.
Other quality RTW mods I have played much in the past are RTR, RS and Napoleonic TW2 which is the only of the three I still play, but I´m currently taking a few of you on the word and downloading IBFD and from what I´m reading on their forums it is a mistake I haven´t done so before.

[konny]

so whilst i loved the number of units the romans could field there were too many, some of which could only be trained in certain settlements, which made me end up losing entire units of men as i wasn't able to retrain them.

The late Roman Army loved to use soldiers far away from their homelands (the exact opposite of what players would do). So you have a couple of, for example, Illyrians in the army on the Euphrates, Asian cavalry along the Danube, Germans in Africa and such things. A logistical nightmare in a RTW game. I would adwise to use them up and replace them with locals as soon as possible. Don't bother with trying to retrain them (in many occasions you won't even have the settlements where they came from). A problem are in fact the large number of different Comitatenses with very small AOR; so cannot retrain in Alexandria a Legion that was originally raised in Athens.