best .exe to play?

[m046720]

what is the best exe to play on? i have been playing soley rtw.exe, and i love it but i read that guys are playing on alex.exe and bi.exe. what are the benefits to this?

[Apázlinemjó]

Well, night battles, navy invasions and a bit improved AI.

[Cute Wolf]

I had experience play with Both, but later, I prefer BI over Alex because a things (Swimming, and the AI ability to create superpowers with their offensive capability), but on overall field Battle, ALEX won the terms.

BI.exe = more naval invasion, capable to add swimming and shieldwalls, AI is better than RTW in terms of formation moving and muster a well balanced army, but the Ridiculously naval- centered AI and extremely exspensive EB naval upkeep means that sooner or later, you'll deal with many underfinanced enemies, and one or two Superpowers.

ALEX.exe = less naval invasion than BI, but often very well timed. The AI will always try to balance their economy first as it seems, but it often means that blitzkrieg is an effective way to deal with them (well, originally, ALEX campaign was about Megas Alexandros' Blitzkrieg on Persia). The AI will pay attention to your movement on the field of battle, and even behaves really reasonably, but on the other hand, extremely cautious AI means that they are not as offensive. (but ONCE they decide to invade you, they'll do it in terms of Multiple stacks)

[m046720]

is ales.exe like bi.exe where you need to have another disk? or is it downloaded?

[Ludens]

is ales.exe like bi.exe where you need to have another disk? or is it downloaded?

Alex.exe refers to the Alexander expansion of R:TW. This was a downloadable expansion, although you can also get it on a disk.

As for A.I., apart from the naval invasions I never noted much difference between standard R:TW and BI. BI does allow you to add certain abilities (swimming, shielwall, schiltrom, night-battles), but these need to be manually added or you need to download a special mod for this. I still haven't tried EB on alex.exe yet.

[dejan07]

I was playing Alx,exe for a long time and finally switched to Bi and i am having the best campaign of my lifetime.The BI.exe is the best choice.

[Whatever Scortamareva]

I've only ever played rtw.exe and alx.exe, I chose alx after hearing it was far better than BI. So far, after playing it for around a month, I'm pretty satisfied with it. The naval invasions are great, and the game seems so much more realistic in terms of AI management etc. I'd recommend it to anyone.

[moonburn]

Alex.exe refers to the Alexander expansion of R:TW. This was a downloadable expansion, although you can also get it on a disk.

downloadable where ? and for how much ?

[mountaingoat]

you can just download or obtain the alex.exe file , check out the alexsubmod forum ...

[DaciaJC]

ALEX.exe = less naval invasion than BI, but often very well timed. The AI will always try to balance their economy first as it seems, but it often means that blitzkrieg is an effective way to deal with them (well, originally, ALEX campaign was about Megas Alexandros' Blitzkrieg on Persia). The AI will pay attention to your movement on the field of battle, and even behaves really reasonably, but on the other hand, extremely cautious AI means that they are not as offensive. (but ONCE they decide to invade you, they'll do it in terms of Multiple stacks)

Also, in ALEX.exe, the AI will retrain troops. Because of the substantial experience gained in auto-calculated battles, you will often see stacks of 2-3 silver chevroned troops, much like the super-stacks found in Central Europe.

[Cute Wolf]

Also, in ALEX.exe, the AI will retrain troops. Because of the substantial experience gained in auto-calculated battles, you will often see stacks of 2-3 silver chevroned troops, much like the super-stacks found in Central Europe.

NO, BOTH retrain troops.... oh, I forgot to mention that.... Thanks

[Dewirix]

In terms of the benefits of Alex.exe, I seem to remember it being a bit more challenging on the battlefield, with enemy armies making a better show of sticking together and trying to turn flanks. That said, it's been a while since I played Rome.exe, so might just be wishful thinking on my part.

For me, the greatest benefit has been stability. In my current Aedui campaign (think I'm around 218 BC), I've had about one CTD tops. Back on Rome.exe my game was falling over all the time, to the point where I used to finish a stack's turn by building a fort so I didn't have to fight multiple battles during the AI turn.

The above should come with the health warning that I'm probably not using the exact hardware/software configuration now, so it's impossible to say for certain that it's all down to Alex.exe.

I have about five minutes' experience with BI.exe, so I'm not going to comment on it.