Roma Victrix !

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Congrats - looks like you had fun with it too!

May I ask what you thought the best part about the campaign was overall? Any thing you particularly looked forward to, or anything you particularly dreaded?

[TiFlo]

Sorry for the late reply (people were right : winter is well over )

Joke aside, I'm trying to think about it.

- The best part is 1) probably the extreme longevity of the campaign, which allows you to always discover something new while you expand your borders, such as new units, new "wonders" and unique sites and buildings, and also face various kinds of adversaries each with their own culture, which requires you to adapt your armies, tactics and strategies 2) that wonderful diversity I'm talking about 3) the depth of the traits' system (this is... just marvellous)

- The downside to this is that 1) each turn can be really time consuming to manage your empire when it reaches over 50-60 provinces 2) at times it becomes a bit boring having to wait for the next reform to pop out. Don't get me wrong here, Romani are already privileged with their 3 reforms. Plus while I was very eager to get to the imperial era, after 30-40 years of it I was happy to see the end of it and to know I would start again with those good ol' hastati-principes-triarii

- My only fear, that proved to be justified, was to face endless stacks of enemies after 100-150 years from the 3-4 superpowers I was inevitably going to share my borders with : I'm especially pointing out Seleukia, Sweboz and Ptolies. That would be the main thing I look forward to : a balanced money script to counter that and keep the campaign as it is to be about (strategy), and not a pure stackfest. I mean, ok, that may be a good challenge to overcome such odds, but come on, I have real life matters to prove myself I'm capable of achieving something great ; a game is still something you play to relax, and I don't want to spend a full night in front of my computer just to get past one single year. At least, that's how I see it.
As for the stackfest, I ended up auto_win every small encounter that wasn't involving strategic objectives. Some may call it cheating, I'd say look 2 lines above. And this is probably thanks to that cheat I sticked on my campaign.

- Concerning suggestions, I think this is already being addressed, but I'll confirm you guys are right anyway in doing it : 1) a real money script 2) an improved cursus honorum for Romani. Maybe also some sort of ancillaries/banners your generals get after they've spent some time on the field, telling you what legion they command, such as what Marcus Camillus has done with his Roman Leadership system in his "4 turns per year" minimod for RTRPE. Apart form that, I will go with the usual whining, asking for better roman skins. At least for those that are inacurate such as marian legionaries, evocati and pratoriae (spelling ?). That's about it

I won't tell anything for the other factions, since I don't play them that much and so I don't know a lot about them.

Overall, this is for a mod worthy to be called a 1.0 release, as it is fully playable, and most of the things it aims at work well. This especially as there is almost no more ctd, so you don't have to wonder when you will have to drop it because of the ctd of the death. You've made another happy EB camper !

Once again :

[vnwarrior2025]

This game looks awesome!!! I have been looking for the website to download the mod but I couldn't find it. Could someone help me please?? Thank you

[Ludens]

Hello vnwarrior2025,

The EB website can be found here. Enjoy!

[vnwarrior2025]

Thanks Ludens for the website. However, EB website doesn't look anything like the game call Empire Total War: Roma Victrix i was searching for. I though picture posted by Tiflo above is the same game that i mentioned.

[d'Arthez]

As far as I can quickly find out, it seems the mod was abandoned. http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=380438 may reveal more.

[vnwarrior2025]

I downloaded EmpireTW: Roma Victrix and played it yesterday, but they only allow custom battles using Rome and Celt fractions. :[

Anyway, Europa Barbarorum is a pretty cool mod too. But maybe not as good compare with Surrectum 2 that I have played.