Play EB with Alex engine

[Nightmare]

Hello all,

I would like to play EB with Alex engine (if recommended). I know there are threads here on that topic, but they seem to be old, the download links don't work, can't get instructions on how to do this, etc.

If someone could give me some recommendations, and point me to the best "go to" link on this topic, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks.

[jirisys]

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...1-ALEXANDER-EB

~Jirisys ()

[Nightmare]

Download links don't work there. Anything else?

[Shadowwalker]

There's a spoiler in that link jirisys posted (between "EB-Alex step by step" and "AI unit use in battle") which contains the informations for manual adjustment of your files. It's not that hard to do it that way (even I was able to ).
I cross fingers though that you don't run into the same annoying issue as me (persistent crashes at campaign start with almost all factions).

Alternatively you could of course use jirisys' Megamod (which has the same issue in my case but seems to work for everyone else).

[Nightmare]

While waiting for a response, I ended up going over to BI. What are the differences between BI and Alex? Is the AI better in Alex than BI? If it is substantially better, it might behoove me to try to go over. If it isn't, I might stick with BI.

Thanks.

[danio43us67]

Alex is definitely more stable. The AI retrains more and does better invasions.
I think both have night battles
In BI you have the shieldwall formation and the schiltrom formation & swimming ability.