Salut! Servus! Salve! Kai to lwipon!

I have a decision to make.

As ever, I want to have a modified version of MTW to play and I would immediately have opted for XL with the patch Tyberii if not for one thought.

The last mod I played was MedMod, and although the variety was enjoyable, I was alerted to the fact that not every faction was balanced, and victory with some was considered impossible.

Far be it from my responsibility to prove these sources incorrect, I decided that I wanted a mod which would ensure balance!

In vanilla I always found that by the end of the first century a superpower would have emerged, Daneland, France, England, Castille - and they would ruin the fun for all parties.

So do freshen my memory and add to experience!

Which modification have you found to be most balanced, that is to ask, does a modification exist which gives each faction an almost acceptable chance of victory?
XL? (Yes?!)

Or would some of you testify that vanilla itself is suitably balanced, and that any power could emerge supreme?