Ye good old fasioned general thread: What is your favourite mod?

[Fwapper]

A topic like this would have been handy for me looking for a decent mod - especially when my slow connection makes trawling through all the individual mod threads a bit tedious.

Please mention one ore two good mods, and why they're good... and screenies if possible

I'm currently playing the Iberia Total War mod. It's the only one I've played to far... so I can't really compare it with the others - but it definately has rekindled my RTW ITW obsession. :P The map is new and has enough new factions and provinces to keep me happy. I also like the way that there are many new units, and the old units have been reskinned to look like the new ones.

I'm a tad lazy to make screenshots... but this thread has a few.

I also rather like the look of the Zulu mod. But it has not yet been released.

[Thorn Is]

When i first go RTW I was a little underwelmed being a big fan of MTW... but once i started playing the mods its like a complete different experience...
I've played about 75 % of the Mods out there - but my all time favorite would be Vlad, partually cause its almost tailer made to the way I like to play and partually cause it was the first mod I've downloaded... and you always remember your first

[Agathon]

Since I liked vanilla RTW, and appreciated some of the improved features over MTW, I thought I'd try one conservative mod that promised to avoid turning my RTW directories upside down. I now play the last update of the Extended Greek Mod with the Mundus Magnus Map. I like the modified and fully playable Greek (Greek Cities, Macedon, Seleucid) factions and the quasi-greek factions (Thrace, Pontus and Armenia) make the campaign more challenging.

From a historical perspective, I've always felt uncomfortable with RTW's Egyptian factions whose units seem more to resemble 17th or 18th Dynasty bronze age Egyptians more than the Ptolemaic Greek and Macedonian colonists who probably provided as much as 75% of the conscripts in "Pharoah's" (a generic greek term for the king of Egypt) armies as late as the 1st Century BC. To realize exactly how "Greek" these Hellenic collonists appeared in real life, one need only look at incredibly modern seeming painted portraits that survive on their "mummy" cases of coffins. They may have adopted the Egyptian custom for perserving their remains in death, but their portraits show that in life they dressed and groomed themselves very much as other Greeks would have appeared in Babylon or Bactria.

In my opinion the exotic soldiers of RTW's Ptolemies look like extras from some of Cecil B. De Mille's Hollywood epics - a glittering and golden "cast of thousands" ready to combat Agrippa and Octavius at Actium or to be swallowed up by the rushing waters of the Red Sea.

Still, I like the XGM and recommend it.