Quote Originally Posted by Matthius Julius
Nobody, completly nobody who is a historian plays RTR. In someways it more hstorically inaccurate than vanillia RTW. For example RTR has All of the separate Greek Cities in the Eastern Med Unified under one banner (that includes Epirus!). Also the Germanic Tribes and the Gauls are unified like they never were. Also it has a very boring vannila style traits system, no goverments system, no nice new buildings for any factions, no reforms for non-Romans, Carthaginians who control land which they would not have controled and land that they would control is owned by somebody, a smaller and more boring map than EB and finally the Marius reforms happen dynamically at the same time as vannila.

Basically RTR is vannila with a AoR, a few new units and skins, two new factions, Baktria and Illyicra (losing two factions at the SAME TIME, Dacia and Britain), a couple of faction changes and a slightly larger map. Really you might as well play vannila!
Now that is pretty harsh.

How is it more inaccurate than Vanilla? How could ANYTHING be more inaccurate than Vanilla?

Remember that RTR 6.0 was made before EB. This is in a time before Scripting was the big thing that could make or break a mod.

Unified Greeks/Gauls/Germans. Okay this is fair enough, it is just one of the hang-overs from Vanilla. It will be rectified in 7.0 AFAIK.

They have an AoR... this is pretty mucht eh equivalent of the Government system. Not anywhere near as good or detailed as EBs, but it serves the purpose.

A FEW new units and skins? What? They reskinned everything, and some of the skins are FAR better than EBs (No offence anyone here). For example their Hastati/Principes/Triarii skins are FAR better than EB's IMO.

The map, while being smaller, is actually better in some ways. They have a better Italy, a better Greece, a better Syria and a better Asia Minor. However, this all comes at teh cost of size.

Personally I love both mods, but the Script is what attracts me to EB.