RTR or EB?

[Quirinus]

I say.... XGM (Extended Greek Mod). Of the three mods, I would say XGM is the closest to vanilla in terms of look and feel.

[PrimusPilus]

EB is a great mod but I experience crippling CTDs about 100 years into it. Usually after getting the Marian reforms it becomes too much and I start a new campaign just to avoid the aggravation.

Never had problems with RTR but too spoiled to go back.

[option]

Yeah, after checking them out I think I'm going to start with RTR before eventually moving to EB. The sheer amount of work they put into EB is jaw-dropping - just looking at some of the history pages on the website alone is enough to show those guys really know their stuff. It does seem quite overwhelming, though, so I'll hold off on it for a while.

[Moosemanmoo]

Well I started playing EB because I found the Romans to be so horrifically overpowered (Urban Cohorts lol) and innacurate it hurt, it made me wonder how on earth anybody beat them
I love EB and would strongly reccomend it, even though it is a learning curve from hell, it's worth it, it also taught me a lot and I feel my knowledge of the classical period to be much improved
I've never played RTR and I think after hearing about it I'll give it a go

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Moved to Mod Discussion

Overall, EB provides the more indepth game play adding more features than the basic R:TR that I remember (which really is, although an Ok mod, nothing exceptionally special and is a little overrated in my eyes). I haven't touched it for well over two years though, so the chances are that it may have changed. The length of time also means I don't remember much about what it did for the "small scale" game play (balancing, battle speed, unit types e.c.t).

Just some advice BTW, if you want to play EB later (and haven't already downloaded R:TR) then use this version which uses the mod switch. This lets you play both mods simultaneously.

[SokayScoot]

This is something I might have to confront and accept as a laptop user. My cursor is laggy in battle and campaign mode in RTW. I'm working with a Toshiba tablet so I don't have any way of utilizing my pencil though hooking up a real mouse is an alternative. Does this sound familiar to anyone with lower processing speed or is there a way I can fix this for faster game adjustments. (Sneaky generals are tearing up my lines before I can spot them)

[Imperator Invictus]

EB is way better than RTR