Historical Data for Bi??

**King of Atlantis** · 07-15-2005, 04:18

Originally Posted by lars573

And I hope they stay as far away from it as possible. If their is one thing I hate it's realism mods. RTR more than any other.

why hate realism mods? Fantasy games are fun, but rome total war claims to be a historic strategy game, which it isnt. The realism mods are simply making rtw up th mtw standards.

**Mongoose** · 07-15-2005, 04:20

Yeah, vanilla sux0rz. RTR is fun and SPQR is the best

**lars573** · 07-15-2005, 05:30

Originally Posted by King of Atlantis

why hate realism mods? Fantasy games are fun, but rome total war claims to be a historic strategy game, which it isnt. The realism mods are simply making rtw up th mtw standards.

Experience they say is the best teacher. I tried one of MTW realism mods (med mod) and it left a very bad taste in my mouth. When I read all the description of RTR, SPQR, even EB, they all reaffimed my suspicions. Realism mods no matter how well intentioned are not and cannot be fun to play. That's all I can really say, without my mouth getting me in trouble.

**Wishazu** · 07-15-2005, 05:34

well surely its a bit stupid to throw them all in the same boat and say "see ya". your a bit narrow minded i think...

**lars573** · 07-15-2005, 06:07

Look at it this way, the same feeling that keeps you from enjoying vanilla RTW keeps me from enjoying a realism mod. And i'm not talking about the AI either.

**bubbanator** · 07-15-2005, 06:09

Realism mods are alright. I prefer to do minor changes like getting rid of the line formation and doing some minor unit rebalancing, changing starting armies, and things of that nature.

RTW is a perfectly good game without major modifications. A few tweaks makes it even better.

**Crazed Rabbit** · 07-15-2005, 06:27

I can assure you that EB is much funner to play than vanilla RTW.

This unit...*sighs*

Crazed Rabbit

**pezhetairoi** · 07-15-2005, 07:42

That's it, I'm not buying BI. Oh gawd, priests are healers, they don't belong on the field except to cart sacred relics around for inspiration... wait that's an idea! Think of the Relic First Cohort, extra large in size, composed completely of templar priests, carrying a sacred relic that can be captured by the enemy?

But all the same, just because of that cheesy crucifix, which looks worse than any chessy cricifixes I have ever seen, I will not buy BI. Urgh....

**King of Atlantis** · 07-15-2005, 08:44

Dont worry, all we have to do is force EB to mod this campaign too

**Horatius** · 07-15-2005, 15:53

Originally Posted by pezhetairoi

That's it, I'm not buying BI. Oh gawd, priests are healers, they don't belong on the field except to cart sacred relics around for inspiration... wait that's an idea! Think of the Relic First Cohort, extra large in size, composed completely of templar priests, carrying a sacred relic that can be captured by the enemy?

But all the same, just because of that cheesy crucifix, which looks worse than any chessy cricifixes I have ever seen, I will not buy BI. Urgh....

The Templars came into existence in the 12th century, sorry no Templar Priests.

However at this time Medicine was leaving the hands of private practice and surgeons and entering the hands of priests.

You forget that this is nearing the start of the dark ages, Roman Power is fading away at this time, and with it the field of medicine is starting to change hands from capable surgeons, and doctors of a variety of qualities back to the various priesthoods, partly because there are a lot less of them around.

**Horatius** · 07-15-2005, 20:59

It is realistic for Celtic and Germanic women to have accompanied the men to battle, the only thing that was silly about the screeching women was the name.

Besides what would you prefer a beaten up mercenary with 11 troops left or a morale boosting priest group?

**IceTorque** · 07-17-2005, 01:41

Originally Posted by bubbanator

Realism mods are alright. I prefer to do minor changes like getting rid of the line formation and doing some minor unit rebalancing, changing starting armies, and things of that nature.

RTW is a perfectly good game without major modifications. A few tweaks makes it even better.

Yes a few tweaks does wonders.
I don't give a rats about the priest unit as i'll remove it immediately anyway.
I'm more interested in tweaks to the code than new units.