EB2. Mod for Vanilla or BI?

**Megas Methuselah** · 05-05-2010, 01:44

I VOTED FOR BOTH OPTIONS BECAUSE I LIKE VOTING IN POLLS.

Also, I must agree with Odiseeios:

Uh.. not an issue that a poll will have the slightest influence on.

**SlickNicaG69** · 05-10-2010, 19:22

Alright dudes. That's cool. I don't mind waiting for a complete remake of EB - (I like the new, historically lesser known factions, trait/government system a lot too!) - but after playing EB for a little while a short time ago I realized there were some hardcoded things in it that I wished would be greatly enriched in EB2. Namely, the things I came up with were the following: 1) Battle Map lethality (when a whole line of Roman Principes throw both pilas at 1 unit of Greek Elite Phalanx and no greeks die, there is something wrong with that), 2) Campaign Map AI (factions aren't rational, and rebels don't do anything; I think rebels should be less strong, but more active), and, really, if you make it imperial, make it well into the period to fully experience its transition. How about 79 AD?

**Mediolanicus** · 05-10-2010, 20:40

1) Always play on M battle. And just don't throw anything straight into a fairly well armoured unit protected by a well of a hundred long pikes. Distract them and hit them in the rear.

2) Imperial? 79BC? What?

**anubis88** · 05-10-2010, 21:42

Originally Posted by Mediolanicus

2) Imperial? 79BC? What?

He wrote AD

**Mediolanicus** · 05-10-2010, 22:26

Originally Posted by anubis88

He wrote AD

Oops! Yes, ahum... err.. that changes things...

Imperial? 79AD? What?

**SlickNicaG69** · 05-11-2010, 20:32

Yea think about it Mediocrenus... EB 2 would last until the completion of the Amphitheatre and the Fall of Pompeii... perfect starting point for EB3... where the Golden Age of Imperial Rome begins - maybe unto Eternity and against The Demonic Huns and their 1000 barbarian subject-peoples!!!

Oh and btw... I play the game at VH/M, so although they are elite, they are not on steroids, and yet... Shooting a unit in the back by a complete unit with both volleys of pila on level ground kills a total of 3 units out of the 120 tightly-bunched-completely-yellow-naked-barebacked-greek-stickbearers... come on man... you really gonna say the battle map is straight?

I recently tried out Rome Total Realism a little while ago, and although it is too much like vanilla in terms of campaign gameplay for my liking, I like how, in battle, you experience the grueling, time-enduring battles when in strict face-to-face fighting; but even if your recently recruited hastati come upon an ENGAGED unit of elite greek pikemen, they cut them down like a butcher on a dead pig... but with moderation. Check it out and let me know what you think Mediocrus...