which .exe is best for EB?

[seienchin]

I played several campains with 1.1 rome.exe and then moved to Alex and played 3 campains there and I noticed some differences. Some of them are also explained in the official threat;
1 The ai shifts troops and family members with ships around, but it is not their priority!!!(When KH was reduced to one city they led their faction leader with 2000men alone on chalkis(Which belonged to me) for 30 years.
2 naval invasions occurs if the enemy has no chance to atack you via land.
3 The battle AI tries to outflank you with their light skirmisher cavallery(quite succesfull), but still atacks you head on with their heavy cavallery.
4The ai places all their infantry in front of their phalangites, which makes it incredibly hard to atack.
5. The ai does every thing to be not outflanked by you which is good on one hand, but incredibly anoying on the other, because the Ai sometimes breaks it formation and just to prevent 20 akonkistai to outflank them.
6. The Ai still doesnt atack with all its infantry at the same time.
7. Single AI units tend to act more stupid than in rome.exe. They tend to just stand around if surrounded. Maybe because the AI tries to not be outflanked...
8. Most Factions tend to expand slow and peacefully, but they try everything to conquer certain cities.

[Aemilius Paulus]

7. Single AI units tend to act more stupid than in rome.exe. They tend to just stand around if surrounded. Maybe because the AI tries to not be outflanked...

Not true. My current Romani campaign is in rome.exe and the single AI units are just as stupid. Unless they are ranged (or possibly if they are mounted - I do not remember my battles with single mounted units), they never do anything. I always surround them and start firing in their backs, until they rout, which is usually pretty quickly. This is absolutely the same in both alex and rome .exe.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Just a few notes here:
(a) There are NO supported minimods. By definition. Everything EB supports is released via the EB server (click on a 3rd party mirror and you will make a slight detour on our server regardless).
(b) CTD's do not and could not multiply exponentially. Do the math.
(c) The difference in AI is a rather subjective experience: some people here for instance improved much better naval activity using BI others claim that the naval activity now resembles the AI for land operations. With ALX the main feature appears to be [note I use plain RTW, but have read others reporting it] the fact that the AI actually retrains/merges troops.