Question about Barbarian Invasion

**iamroot** · 10-08-2007, 14:47

Hi. I've never played BI before and I've always been curious about it. I understand that it depicts the end of the Western Roman Empire. Is it realistic?

**Foot** · 10-08-2007, 15:01

Not in its vanilla form, but I've heard good things about Invasio Barbarorum, which is a mod that brings a lot of accuracy to the campaign.

Foot

**iamroot** · 10-08-2007, 15:30

Can you post a link to this mod? Thanks!

**Foot** · 10-08-2007, 15:31

I have no idea where it is. Go have a look either at the twc or here at the org. It ain't difficult.

Foot

**Megas Methuselah** · 10-08-2007, 17:02

*upon seeing Foot*

AH!! It's a Barbarian invasion!!!!

**bovi** · 10-08-2007, 17:17

Invasio Barbarorum is an improvement, but did not appeal much to me. You should try Fourth Age and Arthurian as well, not necessarily for historical accuracy but definitely fun factor.

**Redmeth** · 10-08-2007, 19:08

You can't really say FATW is historical, it probably depicts Middle Earth very well I can't really judge as I don't know that much about it, but Arthurian: Total War seems pretty historical to me at least all those kingdoms existed and appear in chronicles and stuff like that AFAIK.

**Long lost Caesar** · 10-08-2007, 20:46

BI was a great game to me. I remember when I first played it, it was a big shock after RTW, but I came to like it. Main difference to me is that RTW had a more bright, polished 'finish' which made it seem more civilised, whereas BI had a more rugged, dark coat, and it was (at times) quite a come-downer. Could have been I was having a bad day, but it reeaally pissed me off at times.
As for IB at first I thought it was awesome, but it became much too easy for me. I defeated 6,000 goths with 1,500 men, and only lost 150. Keep that in mind, but don't let me stop you, since the people who made IB did a great job of historically portraying the things in the game.
BTW-if you play it as the Western Roman Empire, get ready for a shock. A big, Germanic, 4 stack shock

**russia almighty** · 10-09-2007, 02:06

I loved Invasio Barbarorum so I recommend it . The WRE is way harder in it that Vanilla BI . If you want an easy faction play as the ERE or the Sassanids . You will destroy anyone with them nearly .

**Tretii** · 10-09-2007, 09:23

Funny enough, I bought BI for the hoping that EB will incorporate it in somehow, which sort of happened more or less. But I never even considered playing vanilla BI. After EB every and any vanilla version seem very dull.