Quote Originally Posted by Tiberius
Welcome vonsch!

You shouldn't have gotten a strategy guide, it's always better to find things out for yourself or just look online for tips if you're really absolutely dying for help on the game. As for mods, you've got to try EB and RTR (try RTR first though, as EB isn't completed and once you've tried EB it's hard to go back to RTR)
Mind you, I bought the guides AFTER I'd played a lot and read everything I could find online. I found all I could wish for for MTW, but could not find maps for RTW. Too much fog of war is annoying. Guess I could turn it off. My wish would be for a hazy sort of map that was firmed up as things were explored, not a great terra incognita. Even the Romans knew that way over thataway there was a place called... whatever.

The block map I found for MTW online is great. Except it's for vanilla . But that served to let me get a larger strategic view of the game world.

I'm messing with XL for MTW now. At the strategic level I prefer MTW. The battle controls in RTW are superior, though I think I prefer the actual blood and dust in MTW more. I hope MTW2 takes the best of both!

I am a true oldtimer so I keep hoping the strategy guides will measure up to the old ones for Civilization (1!) or Railroad Tycoon (1!). Not much chance of that, it appears. For that degree of detail it's haunt these sorts of fora. Can't even get a decent map nowadays. The TW manuals aren't bad, comparatively, but they lack the meat I prefer in my manual diet. I prefer games, not puzzles. I seems the refuge of many games developers today is to skimp drastically on the documentation and "add value" by making the customer puzzle out everything, rather than study up and knuckle down to BEAT the game, not solve the puzzle. Oh well.

But that comment is not directed at TW, even if the series has turned out more that way than I'd like. The series is still far superior to most games in that regard.

I have EB downloaded, but haven't installed it yet since it does seem a one way move. I'm still trying to figure out which mods are most likely to work with my late-to-the-games versions. I'm watching RTR.

In any case, thanks for your reply.

And thanks to The Stranger too.