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A Semi-Comprehensive Guide to Mods for Rome: Total War

Why Should I play Rome?

Rome is a lot of people’s favorite TW game, and despite all the graphical and gameplay improvements that have gone on in the series since, the reasons are simple; It has a diversity unmatched in Medieval, Empire, or Shogun.

Lumbering Greek Phalanxes, Roman Legions, Axe-wielding Northern Barbarians, Hunnish Horse Archers, Successor Armies, Spanish Hill Tribes—Rome forces you to constantly change your tactics and deal with new threats as you battle new factions. It also has an elegant simplicity—units are responsive, charges and combat just feels ‘right’ in a way that, to me, was lacking in Medieval and Empire’s melee combat.

Perhaps the biggest reason to play Rome is the wealth of mods that have been worked on, and are still being developed, nearly 8 years later. These are some of the largest and most intricate mods that have probably ever been created, and there is a metric ass-ton of them. Figuring out which one you should play is daunting, especially when a campaign game could take anywhere from a few dozen to a few hundred hours. And questions of “What is this mod like?” are usually met with useless answers like “It’s fun!1!!1!” or “Just play it and see!”

What is this guide, and who am I?

I am just a guy who has played way too much Total War in his life, done some modding of the various games, and recently had foot surgery, which rendered me immobile for a few weeks. So of course I decided that I’d take a look at all the major Rome mods and figure out what they were about, how they played, what the campaigns and battles felt like, and then relate that unto you.

Some things/terms to know

• Program Files Problem: If you spend any time on the forums, you’ll see people bitching about /Program Files problems. Make sure to turn off UAC, and give the installer administrative control, before installing a mod to a folder in /ProgramFiles AND when running the game. I simply turned off UAC and haven’t had a single problem. The reason is simple; when running the game, without Adminstractive control, UAC places newly created files (text strings and such) in a safe place, a place rome.exe doesn’t know about. At least, that’s what I gathered from people.

• BAI: The Battle AI.

• CAI: The Campaign AI

• Hardcoded: This refers to things, like aspects of the CAI and BAI, that modder’s can’t change because they were locked inside the .exe by the developers. These hardcoded behaviors can be Somewhat nullified or changed by scripting and careful balance, but they’re the source of Rome’s non-existent diplomacy and limited tactical abilities. Don’t let that scare you—many of these mods are absolutely fantastic at mitigating them.

• .exe’s: Rome has two expansions, Barbarian Invasion and Alexander. Along with Rome, that means there are three ‘executable program files’ that can actually be used to run Rome. Each has slightly different behaviors, and the mod’s forum pages will let you see which one you should use. When people say bi.exe or alx.exe, this is what they mean. (Switching .exe’s is kind of an advanced concept, and not recommended willy-nilly.)

• Modfoldered: This simply means that the mod comes in its own folder, doesn’t do anything to the actual Rome installation, and needs to be run by a launcher or with a steam launch command.

• Vanilla: Un-modded Rome.

• Advisor Script: Most major mods perform a lot of their actions through scripts, cunningly run at the end of every turn through the game’s advisor. To play the mod as its intended, and without giving your game crippling errors and ctd’s, you HAVE to run the script every time you start, and some mods break when you attempt to quickload. Quick savers are scum, anyway. Best practice is to always exit out of the entire program and then reload it, when you need to reload a save, and then make sure you activate the script as soon as it starts.

• Patches: If you’re using Steam, you have the gold edition, which is fully patched Rome with Barbarian Invasion. If you don’t, to install a mod you need a clean install of Rome, patched to 1.5, and then have Barbarian Invasion installed and patched to 1.6.

Is Vanilla that bad?

No.

If you haven’t played it, or haven’t played it in a long time, it’s definitely worth a shot. Most of these mods are drastic overhauls of everything about the game, and if you don’t know how the game plays, how’d you know what you want improved?

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Rome is a-historical and fast-paced. But the units control really well, you know what everything does by looking at it, the economy and city-building parts are logical and make sense. Playing as a Roman is great fun, as Rome is represented by three ruling families and the senate, which means that when one faction grows too powerful, a civil-war breaks out, really adding a sense of struggle and progression to the end game. Playing as other factions is still fun, to.

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Expansions

Barbarian Invasion is a proper expansion in the sense that the word used to mean. It adds cool new religion and horde mechanics, and features a dark ages setting rarely explored in games. The Roman Empire has split in half and is plagued by rebellion, barbarians pour in from the east looking for new lands to call home, and greedy factions eye the carnage with an eye on expansion. BI kicks off with basically the Mongol invasion from Medieval II on steroids, and the world changes very rapidly as the barbarian factions ravage across Europe. It’s a totally unique TW experience and one that should be explored further.

The BI .exe file features better naval invasions, and a more aggressive AI that makes better use of cavalry then Rome does.Virtual tabla pc.

Alexander is not really an expansion. I haven’t played it, because it features a very small map, a handful of factions, and a short campaign time-span. If you like that kinda thing, then go for it. It’s worth installing if you have it on Steam for the .exe file, which is generally considered more stable and has better BAI and smarter, but less aggressive CAI, then BI or Rome.

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