Hi everyone! I'm thinking of installing Europa Barborum on my PC in a week or two and I just wanted to know if anyone could answer a few of my questions about it.

1. Elephants: Do they still play a major role in battles between Successor armies and are they still in the big hordes they were in in RTW Vanilla or are they in the 8-12 strong groups like they are Rome: Total Realism? Oh and are there different types like Indian, African, and Asian elephants or is their just one elephant species in the game?

2. AI: While in RTW Vanilla the ai wasn't exactly energetic the ai in the patches was pretty good in creating big empires so is EB compatible with the patches? I read that the EB crew is working on the next version of EB which will be compatible with the Rome:TW 1.5 patch.

3. Resources: In RTW Vanilla the East was really rich and I could easily get 100,000 denarii as the Seleucids(my favorite faction ) but in Rome: Total Realism and RTR: Platinum Asia is really poor and it's hard to even get 10,000 as the Seleucids or Bactria. So my question is: Is Asia still rich and valuable like in RTW Vanilla or is still really poor like in RTR?

4. Barbarian Invasion: Does Europa Barborum need anything from Barbarian Invasion because I just moved back from overseas and I'm still waiting for a lot of my stuff including Barbarian Expansion and my other games to be shipped over. I'd hate to use money on buying a game I already own so I just wanted to know if EB needs the Barbarian exe. or some other files to install and run smoothly.


I hope you guys will answer my questions as I REALLY want to try Europa Barborum . I'm currently playing a new Seleucid campaign in Rome: Total Realism Platinum but I'll probably be done in about a week. Thanks in advance everyone!