Hey folks!
Longtime fan here. Played all the vanilla games except Alexander.

My favorite setting-wise is easily Barbarian Invasion, but I prefer the gameplay in Medieval II, and find it hard to go back to Rome, especially since to me Rome is by far the hardest game in the series that I've played, and the sheer joy I get from the setting is always crushed in a torrent of backstabbing, bankruptcy, and blow out defeats.

Anyway, with all that said, I've actually enjoyed the vanilla games enough that I haven't really bothered with any mods (I felt like a radicalist just editing my Rome .ini to unlock all the locked factions)

So anyway, I'm wondering where to start. My friend always raves about Rome: Total Realism and Europa Barbarinum, but they both sound like they make Rome harder...


tl:dr - Hi! I'm new! Played all the games, sucked hard at Rome. What are some good mods?! (for any of the titles, not just Rome.)