Mods for other Total War games comparable to EB for historical detail

[WinsingtonIII]

In terms of mods, there's not much currently that reaches the level of EB, but hopefully that will change in the future.

As Vartan said, Dominion of the Sword is shaping up to be the EB of the Medieval Era, although it will probably take just as long (if not longer) as EB2 to complete Which I prefer to take as a sign of how thorough it will be.


Currently (re: until DOTS comes out) I use Chivalry II: The Sicilian Vespers as my main medieval grand campaign mod. It's not as thorough historically, but it makes more of an effort to be than most mods do. Personally, I enjoy it more than Deus Lo Vult, but overall it's a good mod too.

I've found that smaller scale mods may put more emphasis on accuracy, depth, and detail, which makes sense considering they are focusing on a smaller setting. In this regard, Wrath of the Norsemen is shaping up to be a fairly accurate Dark Age Scandinavian mod, and Das Heilige Romisch Reich currently gives a quite in depth experience of the Holy Roman Empire, with all the major electors as playable factions. It also has the best feudal fief/title system I've yet seen. It's currently not as good outside of Germany/Italy, but in future releases they are making the map smaller (no more Russia, Middle East, or Iberia) so it can also focus heavily on France as well, splitting that Kingdom into the lesser Duchies/Counties as playable factions.

Kingdoms of the Isles (more focused on Scotland) and Princes, Kings, and Heroes (more focused on England), are both looking as though they will be quite in depth experiences of the Medieval British Isles as well, although each with their own flavour, as KOTI has the major Scottish clans as playable factions and PKH has every major Barony, Duchy, etc. of England as a playable faction and a few Scottish houses as well.

So, my major advice is to check out the mods with a more focused setting/approach, as they generally will be better able to provide a more historical, in-depth experience. Unfortunately, most of the mods I have suggested here are still in development or only have rather unfinished betas released as of yet.

Regarding your question on the most historically accurate vanilla versions of the games, I'd probably say the original Medieval Total War was the most accurate, but that's only from playing a little of it. Least accurate is Rome Total War, by a long shot. To be honest, Empire Total War is probably more accurate than RTW and M2TW (even if its gameplay is not as good).