Quote Originally Posted by JeromeGrasdyke
Well!

* easily moddable factions via a descr file
* shadow factions, emergent factions, and horde factions are all properties which can be attached to factions in the faction setup
* a new, moddable religious system
* rebalanced charge and spear effects
* improved after-save AI behaviour
* more bug fixes than I care to think about
* much improved battle AI
* removed the limits on uses of console commands
* extended mod system (in fact, BI is a giant mod on Rome, although there will be new exe's as well of course...)

That might help!