Quote Originally Posted by mrjade06 View Post
See I have alex but I have been using BI to play EB ad I'm just ot sure if the benefits of using alex.exe would outweigh the benefits with using BI.exe. After I finish my macedon campaign I will have to give alex a try. One major thing worries me however about alex: why does the cpu refuse to do naval invasions? from what i heard the alex ai will out* perform them and that is the major stumbling block preventing me from switching over to it.
Who cares? The only major naval invasion that even mattered was Xerxes. Did Pyrrhus travel over to Italy by way of ship? That can count too, if so. But other than that, forget it. Why do you think ships are so expensive in EB anyway? Welcome to real life in EB, haha. It's quite ironic and funny too that you're waiting to finish a MACEDONIAN campaign before switching to Alex engine. It's fine, just stick to engine 1.6 (BI), unless you plan on playing further with other pike factions. That 1.9 may come in handy if you really love those pikes in your campaigns. As for MP, don't fret. Problem hasn't been exaggerated to any extreme yet in any battle that I know of (and I played one a few nights ago, as Epeiros against Rome; no problem at all).