At Bob,

I'm with you, I raised Armor and morale for all infantry and foot missle units by one point unless they were already over 10. This made a difference and I am going to raise the moral by another point tonight. I only play and test on very hard battle level. Without opening the VH versus M debate, what has your experience been in the long game at VH level. I want the AI to still have the Bonus that they get at VH (remember...this is not a VH-M debate) but have the longer battles, less chance of chain routes.

BTW, I raised Armor as opposed to shield or defense due to personal preference, I tend towards the side of the camp that says missle units are a little strong. I personally dont use any missle unit except peltasts in my armies. It was boring in STW, MTW to stand off and win every time, and the same holds true for RTW. Just to ramble a little further off topic...I love the challange of playing Dacia on VH/VH 1.2, but once i would get chosen archers, i could end the game any time I wanted. I spent a weekend just seeing how far i could go with 90% chosen archers, not even Rome's Best could stand before me.

I love this topic as it seems the easiest way for the non hard core moder to customize the game to his liking. I am thankful for your posts and others that have contributed much to the layman's world of modding text files...Red Harvest, you get much appreciation from me as well. Soon, i expect to see people posting their packages of the 3 or 4 files (unit, building, etc.) with various tweaks. I have thought about it but dont have the special status at any forums needed to post downloads (despite following the forums for many years, i usually just read and not post much). Have you (or you Red Harvest) tried Dearmad's Building mod? I really enjoyed it, after making dogs, screchers, druids and hurlers non-buildable I have almost got a game that gives me a challenge. Now if I can just get the AI to stop charging me with their Generals (I am thinking of lowering their HPS back to one to see if the AI will calc their odds better and not fling themselves on my pointy objects so quick), any thoughts on this? Perhaps different topic?

Enough for now. Thats more than I have posted in a while. May your line be straight...