Damn it!

[Matinius Brutus]

You darn EB b*stards!!!!
Last night I decided to give Vanilla a go for the first time in a year. At the beginning I was very pleased to rediscover how fast the Title screen loaded. But then ..... I saw the strategic map and it seemed .........just plain, so did everything. I forced a few turns but I never felt the same thrill from a time long past. Ahhh I guess I would never be able to leave EB behind.....

[marodeur]

Welcome to EB-addicts-anonymous.

If you look up "EB-addiction" in well known medical magazines, you will find this:

"While heroin and other drug addicts have at least a slight hope of recovery, the poor EB-addict will never be cured. Friends and family of addicts should know: the only way to live with this addiction is to play EB and burn a few towns down - if the addict is forced not to play for longer periods of time, there is the very real risk of him acting like this in real life."

[Matinius Brutus]

Sad but true. That is one of the reasons I will never let my girlfriend play EB- she may accept me i bed only if I am dressed in LS. And that will be hard to come by. The other reason is that I only have one computer and it is for myself. And it is reserved for me. Unless it is Sunday and I am watching EPL games.

[marodeur]

As a non-native-speaker not knowing all abreviations: what does LS mean?

[Tristuskhan]

As a non-native-speaker not knowing all abreviations: what does LS mean?

Well since the last member who wrote it was crucified with nails full of rust on a non-certified cross, I can't answer

Edit: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=98055

[marodeur]

Well since the last member who wrote it was crucified with nails full of rust on a non-certified cross, I can't answer

In a certain way it is a very clear answer. I already imagined something like that...

But now:

[Hax]

Welcome to EB-addicts-anonymous.

My name is Hax...and I am addicted to EB.

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Well, last night I decided to give Rise of Persia a try, and although some things has been changed, it does look like Vanilla, but hey! I did enjoy it, I could relive great "THIS! IS! SPARTA!" and "TONIGHT WE DINE IN HELL" and such moments playing as the Lakedaimon /endStupidMovieLines

[konny]

You darn EB b*stards!!!!
Last night I decided to give Vanilla a go for the first time in a year. At the beginning I was very pleased to rediscover how fast the Title screen loaded. But then ..... I saw the strategic map and it seemed .........just plain, so did everything. I forced a few turns but I never felt the same thrill from a time long past. Ahhh I guess I would never be able to leave EB behind.....

Oh yes playing some turns of Vanilla is a certain cure when feeling like critizing EB:

- Winter every other turn
- Much smaller map
- No economy that you have to think of
- Battles that do not last longer than 2 minutes from first contact to mass rout
- Generals that are able to butcher entire armies on their own
- No AOR, govermental system or reforms (save one for the Romans)
- No faction specific traits
- All Barbarians appear with the same 4 or 5 units
- All Hellenic field nealry nothing but Phalanx, save for the Ptolemaians who field Bronze Age units
- No chance to recruite anything than your factional units
- Not more than 2 or 3 different units of mercs available per province
- All units answer in English, German or whatever language your version of RTW is
- etcpp

[Pezlu]

I'm addicted as well, but I didn't notice it with vanilla, but with one of the other mayor mods out there!

(it's an excellent mod actually, but after trying EB... I want to cry. I will not tell it's name to not cause a flame, however I can tell you it's a fantasy mod and not a historical one)