I like the alex.exe

**Unintended BM** · 11-20-2010, 07:50

First of all, the game runs way better on my computer with alex than it did with BI or RTW. The battles are smoother. I also rarely get crashes after battles. Plus, that annoying phalanx bug was fixed in it.

Second, the campaign map AI is noticeably better. With more retraining (as far as I've noticed, I could be wrong) the AI actually makes decent armies. There's still the silver shield and pedite spam, but I didn't expect that to go away.

What I really enjoy is the diplomatic AI. On M/M on both RTW and BI, I've had long saved games with various factions, and unless I had huge amounts of money, the AI would always refuse just about any logical ceasefire. On Alex, I can actually finagle regions out of the AI for a ceasefire, and not have to pay unreasonable amounts. They're still hesitant when you border them, but it is totally possible to get a ceasefire most of the time. You can go up to them and offer a ceasefire, and they'll tell you what they want for a ceasefire instead of just flat out refusing. Protectorates still require huge amounts of money, but they're more possible on Alex than the other .exes, from what I've seen.

I'll post pics of my fun Roman game later to make this thread better.

**stratigos vasilios** · 11-20-2010, 10:37

I used to play on the standard RTW but now I'm on playing with RTW:Gold. It seems to work much better than the original, but unfortunately I didn't play with the original long enough to compare!

**Duguntz** · 11-20-2010, 10:49

Well... Alex.exe is the ONLY exe where there's retraining! Gosh I hate that... That's why I play on BI

**DaciaJC** · 11-20-2010, 15:27

I'm suddenly very interested in continuing one of my campaigns with ALX.exe. Is it possible to carry over a savegame from one .exe to another without major side-affects?

**vartan** · 11-20-2010, 22:14

Originally Posted by stratigos vasilios

I used to play on the standard RTW but now I'm on playing with RTW:Gold. It seems to work much better than the original, but unfortunately I didn't play with the original long enough to compare!

They are the same game. Gold just means Rome with its first expansion, BI.

Originally Posted by Frontline1944

I'm suddenly very interested in continuing one of my campaigns with ALX.exe. Is it possible to carry over a savegame from one .exe to another without major side-affects?

Impossible. Sorry.

**Kikaz** · 11-20-2010, 22:52

Originally Posted by vartan

They are the same game. Gold just means Rome with its first expansion, BI.

Impossible. Sorry.

I've carried my Arverni campaign from original to BI.exe with no problems

Originally Posted by Duguntz

Well... Alex.exe is the ONLY exe where there's retraining! Gosh I hate that... That's why I play on BI

BI.exe retrains too, just less often.

**seienchin** · 11-21-2010, 02:28

Well until this point nobody has ever prooven any AI improvements in Alex over the other Exe, but retraining is a nice feature.
I personally think/experienced that the Alex AI is very passive and sloppy protecting their settlements from other factions, but again this is my experienced. It might not have anything to do with the Exe.

Diplomacy I would say is just a matter of your playing and luck. I played long rome.exe sessions were I had large armies at the boarder of my empire and I never atacked any other player and in Return I had a long time peace with the other factions.
On Alex I had a fullstack of carthagenian troops guarding a bridge and the ptollis atacked me with just 2 phalangitai...
I guess it just might be random sometimes, because the AI just picks a target city and than tries everything to get it.

**Blxz** · 11-21-2010, 08:32

Well I am about to be steamrolled by the AS in my Rome.exe game. Only the islands are safe. AI is decent enough once I corrected (modded) a few things.

But as long as Mr bowel movement (unintended or not) is happy with his exe then all the power to you. Would love to see those pics you promised.

**Unintended BM** · 11-21-2010, 08:48

I keep on forgetting to get screenshots of my Roman game. I will though, since I said I would.

It's around 230 BC, I own all of Italy, Cisalpine Gaul, Massalia, Tolosa, and the first town down the east coast of Iberia, I forget what it is. Those areas are easy to hold, but I'm having a huge war over in Greece. I'm supporting the Epirote Administration in Macedonia, so I'm trying to beat back the KH who are actually winning against me at the moment. I took Thermon earlier in the game because it was still rebel, and that angered the KH, who attacked and eventually conquered the town. I came back in full force and took back Thermon, along with Korinthos and Sparte. Then the KH pulled at least three full stacks out of nowhere and detroyed two of my armies and took back Korinthos for themselves. They even managed to kill my main general in the area. I've since replaced the general and brought in reinforcements from Italy to try and take Korinthos back. I managed to destroy two of their full stacks at Korinthos, but they still have one at Demetrius and a half stack at Athenai. I'm constantly building new armies to try and reinforce my failing Greek conquest.

My army compositions are as follows:

1 Legion =
2 Hastati
2 Principe
1 Triarii
1 Velites
1 Eqvites Romani

I usually put two of those together. For a Consular army, I just add in a unit of Pedites Extraordinarii and Eqvites Extraordinarii. It's difficult fighting the KH with all of their elite troops, but it's fun actually losing sometimes.

Screenshots tomorrow.

And woo alex.exe, etc.