RTR or EB?

[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

[PatricianS]

RTR 6 Gold/Platinum are rather old mods compared to EB. so they don't have scripts and stuff. However I would advice you try the Extended Realism Mod (ExRM), which is a submod for RTR Platinum. Compared to platinum it does add three more factions, a campaign script, units, lots of rebalancing (campaign and battle), an improved map and lots more... So actually ExRM is the most up-to-date Grand Campaign for RTR...

Obviously you should also try RTR VII: The Iberian Conflict (TIC)
(and soon RTR VII: Fate of Empires (FoE), which isn't released yet)

:)