Rome destroyed within the first 2 years...

[CountArach]

lol, good point. I think we all know what he means.

You cannot hold EB responsible for this situation. You completely broke with history (Rome would have been unable to stand up to an assault of this size while they were up against Pyrros in the south as well.

[Warmaster Horus]

I meant play EB with BI.

[Starforge]

This is not an EB problem but a Total War (not just RTW) problem. Executing Blitzkrieg on nearly any faction at the beginning of the game is always effective since it's pretty much the only time in the game where all the factions are relatively equal in power and not beefed up on scripted money and hordes of units they otherwise can't afford.

Giving an AI Rome a head start with units might make them more effective against the player but they'll be a-historically steamrolling the other AI factions without such a head-start. Also consider how much easier a beefed-up player Rome would be against the other AI factions (something that already isn't over difficulty even on vh/m or h/h).

[Zarax]

Well, you can beef-up one or more factions based on player faction at start, it just need a campaign script with some conditionals.
XGM did that and seems to work ok

[Tellos Athenaios]

Only issue is, this breaks with the idea behind EB: "We set the table as historical accurate as possible; now go play with it." Then there are certain reforms, but the table aspect means that these reforms are preferably not tied to a specific date but a few specific conditions which (could) have caused the reforms to happen at that time in *real* history.

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Why in the world are you getting numerous ctds? With those patches, the only remaining ones should be a very occasional reinforcement ctd. And I agree with the others like starforge - blitzing another faction in the first few turns and then complaining about it sort of goes against what EB is all about. If you're blitzing like that, you're probably using every other shady trick to get your militia to beat what forces they do have too. You'll enjoy it a lot more if you roleplay with your characters, and try to be more realistic in your campaigns. The armies will be built up more to give a good defence by then.

[bovi]

I've given up trying to promote the fixes. People just won't look at them, despite stickies in the tech help forum and links to them in my sig (and I don't post THAT rarely). People who don't care to search or even ask for help can't be helped.

Anyway, we are contemplating a mechanic or two to further reduce the ability to blitz, but it has not been included in our internal build yet. In the meantime, some self-restraint can be advised, or if you don't want to do that you can increase the difficulty level or play a faction close to the Arche Seleukeia, who have to blitz to get a fair empire before the war against the ptolemies ends.

[Zarax]

Only issue is, this breaks with the idea behind EB: "We set the table as historical accurate as possible; now go play with it." Then there are certain reforms, but the table aspect means that these reforms are preferably not tied to a specific date but a few specific conditions which (could) have caused the reforms to happen at that time in *real* history.

I stand corrected, I was thinking in terms of gameplay balance without taking into account EB focus on historical accuracy...

[Ferromancer]

I meant play EB with BI.

Try my EB for BI patch.

[NeoSpartan]

u blitz the AI in M/M??????
and u question why the AI is so Easy????????????????


Boy, WTF are u talking about!!.................................... (edit)

ur lucky this is a friendly forum otherwise u would have gotten

[Sakkura]

As far as I know, EB is meant to be played on Very Hard campaign difficulty and Normal battle difficulty.

[PenguinLobster]

Rome is pretty easy to destroy, especially if you pick the second strongest faction and play on medium. pick a faction sharing a border with arche seleukia on VH if you want a challenge.

[bovi]

Hayasdan on VH/VH.

[NeoSpartan]

As far as I know, EB is meant to be played on Very Hard campaign difficulty and Normal battle difficulty.

Yeah and even THAT is a cake walk.

[sgsandor]

Hey Hey chill my Eb brothers this is a learning curve here you have to admit especially if this is your first go after Vanilla ( I know it was for me and I asked many stupid questions and got alot of help from a few guys on here) but here is a another one
1 What is the role playing aspect?
2 How do you do it?
3 Do You enjoy the game more with it?

Again thanks for your help, and guys deep breathes, we are all here cause we love EB and because of All its challenges even if don t understand them all yet...

[monkian]

Try my EB for BI patch.

Do we have to do the jiggling with the BI folder and edit the exe command line BEFORE installing the mod ?