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[lordcooper]

Divide et Impera is my mod of choice.  Half hour field battles in the early game aren't uncommon.

[dennislp3]

If you are looking for a less historical mod that still tweak stuff to last longer than as I mentioned before I would recommend possibly using Radious

[umiman]

Radious is probably the best. He makes his mods super duper modular, so you can choose whatever you want instead of being locked into something.

[Vendayn]

From what I heard, radious is fast more action-like battles than DEI. So I went for DEI, more strategy involved in slow battles and more epic.

For my faction, I went with Armenia. Great faction, really challenging and Armenia does have cool history.



 

[dennislp3]

Yeah I am planning on getting DEI as I have not tried it...when I first found it was when it was still mostly a WIP fledgling mod

[krisslanza]

Yeah I am planning on getting DEI as I have not tried it...when I first found it was when it was still mostly a WIP fledgling mod

From my days on TWC, I seem to also remember the DEI mod maker seems to hate javelins for some reason. Like, he not only nerfed their damage but also their range and ammo heavily... whilst buffing the range and damage on arrows...

Then again, this was months ago. I'm generally skeptic of 'historical' mods, because they rarely seem historical to me. Particularly the ones that make battles last longer by simply increasing morale or something - after all, most battles in history are dictated via rout, not slaughter. I guess I can see the argument in wanting longer lasting battles sometimes, but personally, I feel if early game battles are taking like 30+ minutes, it's a little extreme. Early game battles should be pretty fast and bloody, with the battles increasing in length as everyone's units start actually getting good.

Just my personal view on it anyway.

[Vendayn]

Well, I did make changes for my own little tweaks to DEI.

Made Pontus an Eastern Culture. And turned on confederacy for Eastern cultures. I imagine, as Armenians, a strong Pontus/Parthinian/Armenian alliance

Realistic or not, oh well...I like it a lot more *shrug*. Plus the most important factor (for me)...it makes playing Armenians WAY more fun.

And I also am in more, larger wars.

Sadly, Parthia just lost... I think I can bring them back though if I re-take their cities? Persia took them out.

Though, right now it is Pontus (doing really good), Armenia (me) and random Trapezos in an alliance...dunno why Trapezos...but guess that is that. They aren't even eastern by DEI standards...oh well.

Fighting smaller factions, but Seleucids and Persia seem to be in an alliance together. They are going to be a rather big fight, that I hope can wait till we manage to secure our northern front...and after that, HUGE ass alliance vs alliance war. With obviously, Seleucids and Persia being the big guys. I think we can do it though, I've won fights where I've been WAY outnumbered due to my Cataphract generals (and now Medium cavalry that are great too).  But, I'd be fighting the same cavalry troops and stronger. Its definitely going to be a team effort.

Sadly, securing the north front is hard. I also have to deal with rebellions in newly conquered territories (which I'm trying to take one north of me, but no go so far)...that is fun. And realistic. But if I don't move faster, and strike them harder...this particular game is over with that huge alliance right on our borders pretty much.

[Vendayn]

Took a break from Armenia to try others.

Doing a Baktria one, which is a lot of fun. Cool units, great position. Lots of allies.

Main one right now is Seleucid. It can be hard I guess, but I'm finding it really easy. Took a lot to the north, and took Armenia's capital. They have trebizod (I got their capital as they took Trebizod) and a small town to the south.

Also have two satrapies now (start of game I removed them all to avoid wars). Economy is great. Going to build up my economy and secure my new regions that rebel a lot.

A lot less stressful than Armenia :p kind of easy though, but a lot of fun.

[intense]

Bought Rome II from humble bundle deals and moded it with divide et impera, got my ass handed a lot of times.
Computer plays very good on hard campaign/normal battle difficulty. It's the only mod i haven't figured out yet

[The13thRonin]

Is the game still horrible?

[Vendayn]

Is the game still horrible?

I love it. But I went right to DEI plus submods.

[The13thRonin]

Is the game still horrible?

I love it. But I went right to DEI plus submods.

Which sub-mods? Help a brother out.

[TheBronzePickle]

The base game is actually pretty good now. They've fixed the hell out of most of the things that were wrong with it. There are still a few minor issues with morale fading a bit too fast, especially against certain enemies, but overall everything works as intended.

Campaign AI is still mentally challenged, of course, but that's just how Total War works. AAA game designers always seem to have trouble hiring people good at AI.

[LoSboccacc]

Remember when the ai guy quit?

http://blogs.sega.com/totalwar/2009/11/10/battle-ai-by-mike-simpson/


Never seen it getting better since that. Then there where the apologetic post about the bug madness and the less apologetic blogs about fixing everithing in the paid expansion pack (napoleon) which didn't deliver, then sega closed the dev blog from devs and handed it to pr and since then it contains just lies

[Neonivek]

My rule of thumb is you never play a game with the intent that the game will be fixed in patches or expansions.