Is it time for Mods?

[Megas Methuselah]

I've been meaning to play with Imeprial Splendor for some time, but time limitations demand it wait until Christmas holidays. Darthmod is really good, though.

[peacemaker]

Eh. Darthmod's unit sizes are way too big.

I like TROM + Empire Optimizedhttp://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=281226.

TROM's diplomacy changes and stuff are really nice. In fact, I recently started conquering Germany as France and after demolishing Bavaria's army with a half-broken one of my own, they immediately offered to become my protectorate in return for peace.

Empire Optimized is a huge mod (~1.25 gigs unpacked), replacing lots of the unit textures or something...I don't know exactly how he does it. It cuts out a huge amount of lag-before I couldn't really use artillery because it murdered my framerate. Now I can bring all the explosives I want and I still have a high fps