I posted a few screenshots to advertise Goth's All Factions mod yesterday:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...&postcount=306

Check out the third screen especially - it's beautiful. A lot of the skins were done by Attila Reloaded and I think others, but Goth has done additional work and put it together into a really superb reworking of BI. It has the same fundamental structure as BI, but longer battles & more AI challenge. In addition, it is a very stable mod - no crashes. I don't know why it is not higher profile here - it rivals RTR and EB in my esteem.

BTW, I've never had a problem identifying my own units - even when the AI is fielding identical ones. The mods I play tend to slow down the combat and anyway the bad guys are usually the ones trying to kill you.