Hello from an player of the past

[Shahed]

I only played one or two vanilla RTW campaigns, and that too not till the end. After that I played EB, in one of it's early releases. It's leaps and bounds better than vanilla, Unfortunately I quit RTW after starting my 3rd campaign, so I don't know how good it is now. But I'm 100% sure that EB is absolutely brilliant from all I've seen and read about it.

For M2:TW:

LTC 4.0: Improves vanilla campaign and makes it much harder and much more interesting. Massive improvement.
Darth Mod: This is one of my favorites, it has bugs, but the AI is simply much, much better.
Ultimate AI Mod: Again way better AI, hard to choose between this and Darth.
Broken Crescent: Not yet released, but IMO this is THE mod for M2:TW. Complete conversion of the game, better AI, more than 200 new units, new music specially composed for the mod. Call it the EB of M2:TW.
Stainless Steel: A very popular mod, and IMO well worth the effort, excellent skins, but I have'nt played much of this.
Sicilain Vespers: Another great mod, have'nt played much of it either as it focuses more on the West like Stainless Steel and I'm more a Eastern cavalry player.
Med Manager: A mod switcher for M2:TW, required installation of you play mods, much easier to use this with mods, though most mods make their own folders and all. It's still a handy tool.

I don't think I played any mods for MTW:VI.