RTR ist he best mod currently available, but having said that its the ONLY full mod currently available to my knoledge.

What theyve done is nice, and u can bet your ass its better than vannilla rtw, but when EB and Chivalry - TW come along they will be superior.

EB ( Europa Barbarorum ) has the largest workforce of modders and a great deal of dedication and enthusiasm behind it, along with some seriously talanted skinners.

CTW ( Chivalry - Total War ) Is the one and only Medieval mod for the RTW engine in production. Atho there is not as much power pushing it along ( probly due to that fact that all the modders are working on EB ! ), Adherbal the chief modder has great talant and consistancy. You can bet when CTW finally arives it will be the greatest thing u ever played ( i speak with some bias as i am part of the dev team , but trust me it will rock ).

Other great mods in production include

BLUE LOTUS by Hoggy: a damn fine modder with great ideas who so far seems to have taken the whole project on by himself !, and is coping remarkably well.

Sengoku Jidai : The Feudal Japanese mod, something of a STW remake.
The progress of this mod has been dramaticly slowed however, by the loss of the team leader Duke John , who decided that he dislikes rtw battle ai too much and has left the mod, and the rest of the team in the lerch !


Full conversions like the ones ive mentioned require a HUGE amount of work to complete, hence none of them have been fully released and are unlikley to be for at least a few months.

The Difference with RTR is that it started of with very small changes, and continues to grow, meaning serveral public releases can be made while it developes. A good idea for a mod based on rome, sort of like a series of improvements to the original game. But this is not really wise for a project set in another time perioud like Sengoku Jidai, as you would end up with yari samurai fighting legionaries in carthage, or some-such nonsense.

IMO if a way to develop a better battle ai for the rome engine is not found by the modders, then no mod will have serious longevity unless it is made specificly for Multiplayer mode.