EB 1.2 MINI MOD PACK!

[Satyros]

So , let me get this straight , it's E.B. 1.1 --> E.B. 1.2 ---> Sprites fix ( only ? none of the other two fixes ? ) ----> E.B. 1.2 Mini-mod Pack ( alx version - over an rtw 1.5 with alexander installed ) ----> scripts_customfix and I'm done ?

And I have to do nothing more to get this working ?

Am I right ?

No target lines or any changes of that sort to be able to work with alex engine ?

I would appreciate any help , sorry if this is tiresome but I'm not quite sure about the sequence of installation of the files .

Thanks in advance for any answer . And in any case thank you for taking the time to do this Lz3 . Be well .

Satyros

*edit* P.S. : I ve installed the files as I described in my post , and my comments are ;

a) the game runs more smoothly than before I think with the Alex-engine , I was pleasantly surprised .
b) the campaign A.I. seems improved , kinda , I have to play more to be able to confirm this .
c) the hoplites under A.I. control don't work as they do in Vanilla EB , they spread out as soon as contact is made , a fact which I particularly disliked , please propose a way to fix this , or point out any mistake I made in installing the files , if correction through re-installation is possible . I can't mod so it will be tough for me to fix manually I guess .
d) the battle A.I. seems improved ( is this the formations or the engine ?) but I have to play more to be able to confirm this .
e) Arche Seleukeia seems weaker than before . I started as Pontos ( VH/M ) after I employed my usual strategy of attacking them ( and everybody else I can for that matter ) on the first turn , the haven't sent any decent stack since , I kept forcing peace just because I was awfully bored to face armies of 1-4 units every second turn , they kept breaking it , until I forced for a turn protectorate status , which caused them to turn to the Ptolemaioi and the haven't bothered me for about 10 years or so since . They are not passive however , they fight a war with the Ptolemaioi and Antiocheia has changed hands a couple of times . The Koinon Hellenon have done a good job in surviving , have reached Byzantion , and I think subdued the Epeirote kingdom and made them protectorate . I suspect however that the Makedonian Kingdom has shrinked to Mytelenian Kingdom , and even then continuously failing to capture Pergamos . The Hayasdan have moved and captured a rebel settlement to their southwest not the coastal one , I can't remember the name .
f) the spoils of war mod works , I think .
g) I can't tell about the city mod since I don't know the specific effects over the towns I own and/or my faction .
h) I believe the A.I. retrains , which rawkz .
i) Occasionaly the mod doesn't start , I can't tell why , I click single player but it will fail to start , and sometimes will start after I reboot .
j) I have experienced once a CTD when trying to load a savegame - not an autosave , after restarting the game , it didn't happen again .

All in all a positive experience but see c) point and comments on AS . Good job mate . Thank you

[Atraphoenix]

c) the hoplites under A.I. control don't work as they do in Vanilla EB , they spread out as soon as contact is made , a fact which I particularly disliked , please propose a way to fix this , or point out any mistake I made in installing the files , if correction through re-installation is possible . I can't mod so it will be tough for me to fix manually I guess .
d) the battle A.I. seems improved ( is this the formations or the engine ?) but I have to play more to be able to confirm this .

g) I can't tell about the city mod since I don't know the specific effects over the towns I own and/or my faction .

h) I believe the A.I. retrains , which rawkz .

- try Lysander's sihunet formations adaptations. He just updated his link. Hoplites makes wonders in sihunet but phalanx not much but believe if you download phalanx mod on minimod pack then lysander's sihunet formations adapt. for aı you enjoy your battles.

- I do not play city mod because I need huge cities to feed my catas.

- you can retrain so does AI, quite fair for me. Plus AI does not retrain a lot so I found no problem on it.

for installation process; I followed EB 1.1 > 1.2 > official fixes > minimod pack > LZ3's script adaptation > phalanx mod > RS textures and naval strat mod > Lysander's sihunet formations adaptations then my submods (mostly EOM and realist movement mod / As I am not a roman maniac I do not play much with my RS legions Mod).

[Satyros]

- you can retrain so does AI, quite fair for me. Plus AI does not retrain a lot so I found no problem on it.

I mentioned that as a positive thing under the general title "first impressions ". Of course there is no problem with the A.I. retraining , the opposite is the problem , to have an A.I. sending you full stacks ( in terms of unit slots ) with weak units . You have to kill them all to the last man , in the hopes that next time you will face a real full stack .

Satyros

[||Lz3||]

Quite a full review Satayros.

The hoplite issue is an unwanted side effect of the battle AI mod used in the pack. You may want to take a look at Lysander's thread for other options. They are actually independent, but I chose to add them to the pack.

On the AS thing... I don't know, perhaps it's cause of Alex.exe, no modding was done to the map AI (well besides the victory conditions, which usefulness is debatable). Perhaps they were busy fighting against the ptolies.

@ Astro: I promise to add a promotional add for your mod in the main post. I'm not sure on whether or not add it to the main pack, since that would make it not SGC, wouldn't it?

[Atraphoenix]

AS is weaker because many players play with the factions that is neighbor of her.
so She attacks you like kamikazes. But when I played far away from AS they makes wonders but there are two common process either ptolemies or AS dominates east. but percentage has a tendency on ptolemies but AS also may dominate east if she tries to wipe out ptolemies. especially carthage also participates into that war. Saba is far away from being a real thread to ptolemies, but nearly all neighbors of AS have potential to be a great power.

[Fluvius Camillus]

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[||Lz3||]

All filefront download links are DEAD

Please repair or rehost them

~Fluvius

AGAIN?!

Geez, filefront is no longer being much useful... does anyone know a better free hosting place?

(I'll re-upload the files later on today.)