Background Script:
Perhaps the most important part of EB, the background script have to be activated each time you start a new campaign or load a save game. If it isn’t activated the advisor will remind you constantly. But no worries, after some hours it will have become a habit.
But why is the background script so important? Well for one when activated each year takes 4 turns which makes it more realistic when it comes to army movement. But it also handles AI government control and prevents it from draining its cities for troops. It also adds Allied Rebel cities, to represent those cities that were allied with some of the factions, but are part of the rebel faction. Another important thing is that the faction victory conditions are also handled through it, and also provides with faction specific missions such as retrieving the body of Alexander, if you’re playing as Makedonia or Arche Seleukeia to bring it to Pella, or scripts events such as Roman triumphs.
The military reforms are also important for EB and they are also handled with the script, including the Roman reforms, but also reforms for other factions such as the cataphract reforms for the Seleukids.
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