Are the game screenshots supposed to look like they were taken from Civilization V, or is it just me?
Yeah, Rome 2 looks like a Civ 5 clone on the campaign map. In fact, when I first saw it I thought I started up Civ 5...and I greatly disliked Civ 5...personally liked Medieval 2 and the older maps way better. It felt more like a real map, not a fantasy looking map.
In any case...I keep trying Rome Total War 1 with EB, and Roma Surrectum and what not...tried to play M2TW with EB2 (the best one and only one worth playing to me, the other submods suck so bad for map detail. EB2 adds a TON of detail to the map. There is the other one alongside EB2 that adds a lot of detail, but its pre-alpha and unplayable for me till its closer to being fully released) and tried some other submods and I still go back to Rome 2 more often than not. Guess I ended up liking it more in the end. Once EB2 and that other one for M2TW are fully finished, maybe I'd play those more...but I find R2TW with mods the best to choose from...for me that is...
Oh...and finally got Radious+DEI+ToonTotalWar to work together
I use ToonTotalWar as the biggest one (adds over 100 mods), had to remove all the DB entries for DEI (so a lot less DEI in my game) but all the DEI submods I got, work great so while a lot of DEI itself was removed, the submods take its place anyway). And Radious I had to make a few small entry removals in his campaign submod to get that to work.
So in the end, I get TTW huge gameplay variety. DEI (mostly from the submods) gameplay challenge, along with Radious who further adds unique and challenging gameplay.
And all work very well together
It is a lot of fun actually. Very challenging like in DEI, but so much more variety and what not
Actually harder than just DEI+submods by themselves. And lots more units to choose from too.