Comparing EB and RTR

[Kull]

Bottomline - I think they are both amazing mods. Incredibly ambitious and with ambitions that perfectly suit my tilt. They are both massive endeavours, involving many people and changing RTW in a myriad of ways. They transform RTW from an ultimately unchallenging and occasionally annoyingly ahistorical strategy game into a serious historical wargame that is fun to play. To some extent, they are the Pepsi and Coke of RTW mods - they are really remarkable similar. If forced to identify differences, at the moment, I would say RTR is more polished and playable whereas EB is more ambitious and promising. But I don't wish to offend either team, whose works have given me a lot of pleasure now and will continue to do so in the future.

Excellent post, Simon. At the risk of spouting heresy, go ahead and play BOTH mods. Each team put their heart and soul into the work, and the results in both cases are MAJOR improvements over vanilla RTW. But DO remember that EB is really pre-beta, so any comparison at this stage is inherently faulty. The true test will be the heavyweight bout between final release EB (ported to 1.5) and RTR 7.x (also ported to 1.5). And who will be the winner?

That's easy - YOU guys who get to sit back and play both of these awesome mods!

[dark]

Excellent post, Simon. At the risk of spouting heresy, go ahead and play BOTH mods. Each team put their heart and soul into the work, and the results in both cases are MAJOR improvements over vanilla RTW. But DO remember that EB is really pre-beta, so any comparison at this stage is inherently faulty. The true test will be the heavyweight bout between final release EB (ported to 1.5) and RTR 7.x (also ported to 1.5). And who will be the winner?

That's easy - YOU guys who get to sit back and play both of these awesome mods!

Just a minor correction, RTR 7.0 will be made for 1.6.