How did you get interested in RTW and then in EB?

[Julius Augustus]

I got started with RTW when I saw this video on youtube. It just looks so darn Epic! The only bad thing is that the Romans won. However, fellow Romaioktonoi, please do not spam on this thread or it will get locked. After I started playing RTW, I got more interested in ancient history, and then began to hate RTW for being innacurate. One day I was looking up on cataphracts when I saw a picture of an EB cataphract wielding a 2 handed lance. When I looked into EB more, I realized it was a history buff's dream come true.

[APX]

RTW: No clue. It was too long ago to remember.

EB: After reading all the RTR vs. EB threads.

[Olaf The Great]

I was big on Civ3 way way back in the day, and at some point I got one of those 10 buck compilation CD's with Stronghold and Tropico I liked Stronghold so much I craved an even richer Medieval experience, and got Medieval.
I fell in love with it's battle system and Rome was the obvious step up.


I have always been a stickler for historical accuracy, so I was drawn to RTR, and then with the constant EB vs RTR threads way back I decided to try it out and apparently made the first EB AAR ever, even if the Wastelands AAR was 9001x better than mine.

[Skullheadhq]

I think because i liked the name Total War a lot, and found EB when I was looking for a good mod, found RTR, was to easy for me, saw EB and fell in love.

[Molinaargh]

A friend told me about it when the demo was released.

As for EB it was probably by seeing it in the Hosted Mods section here or at TWC.

[mlc82]

I adored Medieval TW 1 and played it religiously, so bought RTW as excited as a kid at Xmas when it came out. A week later I was back to MTW while RTW and it's total lack of any AI combined with combat on speed collected dust on the shelf.

Tried out a couple of RTW mods that were very impressive (like Total Realism) but still would rather play MTW.

Somehow found EB in it's late .7 or early .8 state, and got hooked on it as being able to roleplay with some real credibility (thanks to all of the character traits and such, along with tons of historical atmopshere) finally made the game really fun. EB 1.0 was the first game release I've been really excited about in a LONG time, and I think it was the last one too. Once I found the EB Alex.exe mod and it's AI improvements, it became the most played game I own. Ironic isn't it?

[Apázlinemjó]

I got RTW as it came out, because I always liked the RTS games and played it for a long time. Then last year I found RTR on the internetz. Played it a few months then I checked other mods for RTW... I found EB and fell in love.

[Azathoth]

I first got interested in RTW way when I saw it reviewed on X-Play way back in the day, and though "That looks pretty cool". They gave it a 5 out of 5, btw. I finally got it in 2008 and after a month of playing nonstop checked out the mods for it as presented in Gamespot. I saw RTR and appreciated the possibility of much more historically accurate gameplay and downloaded it. I first played an historical battle, but it lagged like CSS when a guy with 765 ping joins the server and I uninstalled. While researching RTR I heard the name EB (maybe in a Youtube comments section)and decided to see how that worked, and there you have it.

[delablake]

Well I fell...for Shogun, got hooked, and have continued to travel down the TW Highway until TWMII -which was a total strat map graphic + game mechanics disaster for me, and I didin't like the Steam-stuff in E:TW (slowed down my game an awful lot) either. A real pity, for I'm tempted by the Napoleonic Add-On.. :(((

when I first realized that there somthing called "modding" I made a quick research on the internet and...found EB, 0.81 at that time

and I believe it's the only really long-term playable RTW mod
I've tried out quite ALL the other ones, literally, and still EB is the best for me.
EB II will be like a sofa strategist's wet dream come true...
EB team go!

[AqD]

I got started with RTW when I saw this video on youtube. It just looks so darn Epic! The only bad thing is that the Romans won. However, fellow Romaioktonoi, please do not spam on this thread or it will get locked. After I started playing RTW, I got more interested in ancient history, and then began to hate RTW for being innacurate. One day I was looking up on cataphracts when I saw a picture of an EB cataphract wielding a 2 handed lance. When I looked into EB more, I realized it was a history buff's dream come true.

RTW: I saw RTW in heavengames and it seems interesting.... until I played it of course. I then dumped vanilla and found RTR...

EB: found it in twcenter. Amazing though unplayable until v1.2, when I'm already making a mod of my own to re-create some of EB stuff in RTR. Now it's just my historical reference!

[gamegeek2]

Playing battles on paper with a friend who introduced me to the totalwar series. I remember the day I found out about EB, reading on RTW on Wikipedia, I decided to click on the "Europa Barbarorum" link in the mods section first because it had a really cool name and I really wanted accurate barbarian factions (yeah the name gets ya) - I certainly got more than I expected.

[Stycks]

always wanted to feel in control of a real army!
RTW gave me that chance! its like one of the few games i can actually fight a battle the way a real life battle would go! none of the rushing cheap units to their deaths in rise of nations or age of empires! these wanted to live! and the first time i saw a unit rout (it was one of mine) i almost sacrificed my pet rock thanking the video game gods that finally those dudes on my screen had lives to care about!

but....

after a while it got boring cuz my little play troops would die or kill like they were using light sabres

so...

i looked up for mods to make it better....

found RTR (no flaming, but i think it was all eye candy)
found surrectum (idk why i didnt like it, i think it was too roman centric)

then found EB....
LOVED IT!
MY SOLDIERS ACT LIKE REAL SOLDIERS FOR ONCE!

[Arkhis]

I got into Total War thanks to Medieval: Total War. It still is, by far, my most favoured TW Vanilla game. I follewed with Rome, ofcourse, and I like it in the beginning, but then it lost its appeal.

Then, I discovered EB, and I've been playing it ever since! I have no idea how I found out about it though

[Vulg]

First MTW but have always loved Roman history and Roman army games, remember playing Age of Empires and wishing I could have more troops and a world to play with.

Then came RTW, loved it but got annoyed with flaming pigs and just being able to play Rome but as three factions, when really I wanted to just be rome and have more of a struggle to take the world (Head hurlers and screaming ladies, turned me away).

I went to RTR then onto SPQR then back to RTR, I liked the change but wanted more depth and scope. Found EB and have really enjoyed it, just think the game would have been better being more in depth as EB is than as a light mockery of history as RTW off the shelf is.

[Ca Putt]

I have good friend who played Rome total war a lot and constantly spammed me with things like: "then I trained a fullstack of pretorians and conquered 5 cities in a row...." the high focus on Rome rather put me of tho, as I really don't like them. some time later he started with M2TW which was more up my sleeve as I was an ole AoK veteran. I played the Campaign and I kind of liked the gameplay.
Later I started modding and started working on an Ancient mod which Increaced my intrest in ancient society and warfare and lead me into serious Internet reserches during which I found the EB website. I was amazed by the detail of information and love for the game and was very glad EB focused on more than just rome thus I bought RTW gold edition for 10 bucks and had a lot of fun since :)

[Mallios]

I remember the first TW game I ever played was Shogun:Total War when I was about 8. I am always quite suprised when I hear people saying that S:TW had a better AI than RTW, because I always found it pretty easy. I had one established tactic that I remember always working, which I repeated every time I played the game (I picked the faction on the southern tip of Japan, allied with my neighbour, then flanked them by island hopping, destroyed them and them porceeded to obliterate everyone else).

To this day, I have only actually played one campaign on RTW (whcih didn't go so well), instead I only just watched my brother playing ( mostly cause he never let me play), although I played a lot of custom battles ( war pigs vs peasants anyone?). I found EB while looking at the wikipedia article on R:TW, played a small Romani campaign with the money cheat on as a sort of tutorial and then went on to play a Casse, Baktria and then KH campaign.

[Suomaa]

In 2006 i got Medieval: Total war as birthday present, then i begun to play it, and i got Total war: Eras as Christmas present in same year, and i soon begun to visit at totalwarforums, and heard of mods. When i begun visiting here, too, i got interested in this mod, and when i can soon play RTW in computer that has internet connection, i'll download this.

[Antonivs Silvicola]

I got RTW shortly after it was released. It was fun and all but Roman ninjas(arcani) just didnt seem right to me. Then I found EB. The game RTW shouldve been!

[Andros Antonius]

Well, I got RTW just this summer through Steam. I've wanted it for a while but didn't have a computer that could handle these games until recently. But better late than never. I don't regret buying it, especially since I got Vanilla, BI, and Alexander all for $9.99.

And I actually found out about EB through Wikipedia's article of RTW, lol. They mentioned RTR but based on the description EB sounded a lot cooler and had more attention to detail and historical accuracy, so I had to go with it.

[panten]

First of all: Hi, I'm pretty new to the forums, been lurking around a little, but figured I could post too :)

My brother introduced me to the game almost two years ago. I got hooked, hadn't played games for a long time, but got hooked and bought it along with BI. After some talks with friends who I knew had played the game too, I was interested in trying out some mods. One friend recommended RTR and Europa Barbaroum. Looked it up on Wiki too, also thought EB sounded cooler, downloaded it and never tried out RTR.

It is really a great mod and made it impossible for me to return to Vanilla.

[Tollheit]

I loved Shogun TW, played it time and again.
So finally I bought one of its successors, which was RTW.
After completing the game, I searched for a mod that would provide a bigger world. I found mundus magnus, which mentioned EB in its readme.