Opinions on Rome Total Realism?

[Spartiate]

I'm a huge fan of RTR and could never go back to Vanilla RTW.For those of you however who are already feeling jaded again............download the Hannibals War mod for RTR(comes with a patcher and uninstaller so you don't have to worry about back-ups) and you will get a real challenge for once.You can only recruit local troops every step of the way.In Spain you get African Veterans and Scutarii showing up every now and then but only as mercs.You can only train Iberian infantry and Iberian tribesmen in Spain plus your cavalry.When you get to Gaul all you can train is local Gallic troops and in Italy you get Italian spearmen(crap morale).It is tough to maintain a good income to keep hiring mercs and the placement of ambushing rebels(huge stacks) along your path is really well done.Go and download it or at least read the Readme and "House Rules" for this mod.You will not regret it.I'm gonna try the Rome mod on monday.

[LestaT]

I'm playing RTR 5.41 plus some add on mods. One time I did some mix I found that I couldn't built ship unless the province had timber. Hmm.. now after I reinstalled it back I couldn't find the setting anymore. Any idea ?

Some mixies that I had :

1. TCB mod

2. Bug fixers 1.58 & 1.59

3. Skymod (?)

4. Weaker phalanx mod (?)

5. Movement correction mod (?)

6. TFT mod (?)

Maybe some mixes of these ? I dunno. Couldn't get it anymore. Maybe I have insta;lled the RTR custom edition and uninstalled it. Somehow the setting stayed. I have also installed and uninstalled the Roma mod.

But now I play pure RTR 5.41

Hmm...

Helppppp !!! I like ships to be built only in timber producing province. Maybe just a simple mod ? Anyone ?

[caesar44]

Some one said (above) rtr is crap...

Why is that ?

[LestaT]

RTR money is only in the beginning , now later I became a philantropist ... Too much money rolling.. As Roman , I'm finacing Sarmatian so they can kick back Ptolemaic back to the nile valley ....

Only Gauls refuse my money even I'm offering large sums to be either my protectorates or even have a ceasefire (We had wars since the beginning of time) but they still refuse. Hmm . is that hard-coded or what ?