Wars of the Gods - Ancient Wars mod for Total War: Rome II

WOW this is one hell of a great update. The campaign AI is remarkable in pursuit of destroying the player. Incredible challenge of a game! The battles are more intense than ever. I am testing this without any sub mods at the moment and it is superbly awesome. Rock and roll--bravo!

es el mejo trabajo que visto en el juego felicidades y sobradas gracias de corazón

This is the only mod i want to play for R2TW. However, please please please, don't give every Roman unit pants. It's been known for a long time that Rome saw pants as barbaric. So giving MOST of them pants, even the Caesar civil war era units, is just disappointing. Even vanilla didn't make them wear pants. I'll understand if the unit or legion is stationed in cold places like Germanica or Gaul but even the souther legions are wearing pants. I know this seems like a trivial and even nonsensical rant but it's just so bizzare seeing legions of Romans wearing pants knowing how much they looked down on such an idea. Please remove the pants for most of the units and just give them regular tunics and caligae.

Hey there!

Me and my friend have been playing this mod for over 2 years or more, we absolutely love it.

I can't thank you enough for the massive amounts of fun this great mod has given us.

I know it's quite a silly question but is there any way of playing Judea in the campaign?
the units are beautiful and at this point we want to make the People's Front of Judea (or the Judean People's Front) the rulers of the world XD

Having played DEI for a long time (never played vanilla) I find this mod to be very promising. Haven't really started a proper campaign yet, but I am very excited about the depth of units, even if some will perform the same function.

The visual variety is insane and the units look gorgeous. Battles run smoothly, and for me its a pleasant surprise somehow that archers are actually an important part of the army now, since in Dei they got 0 damage. Its also not mindless damage, I had for instance in a siege battle 1 unit of archers shooting a unit of heavy phalanx with 110 or so armor. While they faced my archers, arrows were literally bouncing from their armors and shields (visually stunning), the moment they turned their backs on me, I managed to kill about 20-30 in around 2 volleys. Likewise, my single cav unit charging into 3 archer units got pretty much shredded on the charge, in Dei maybe he would have lost 5 units out of 75 before eating the first archer unit.

That being said, there are some things which prevented me from starting a proper campaign up until now. One of them was raised in previous comments, namely 0 upkeep for the enemy. I found that was related to campaign difficulty and moreover, the enemy has considerable bonuses to battle stats as well depending on the campaign difficulty (aside from battle difficulty setting). For instance, I started a campaign with Epirus on hard and I had the same unit as one of my neighbors (in original stats - check wiki for this), but while my unit had 84 defense or so, his identical unit had 120ish. A smaller bonus was applied to melee attack and an average one to the morale. On easy, everyone is equal and units are cheap af - both recruit cost and upkeep. I firstly thought that maybe some other mods are interfering, but Im not using any other mods. Having checked some values with PFM I think that this is indeed intended as the modifiers are huge. For instance, on hard diff 1 of your decent unit will have ~700ish gold upkeep, while all enemy units will have 0 upkeep (including elites) - the AI modifier being -95 or so, while the player modifier was +100 or so (cant really recall the correct values, the point is there is a huge diff in modifiers).

I spent the past day 'tailoring' the values to match my specific playstyle, mainly, reducing my penalties and their combat stats bonus (this can be done with PFM-open the main pack-db-campaign_difficulty_handicap_effects- the first two tables will contain the stats, the tabs are pretty self explanatory, also keep in mind the following when adjusting: AI: -1 = easy, 0 = normal, 1 = hard, 2 = very hard, 3 = legendary
Human: 1 = easy, 0 = normal, -1 = hard, -2 = very hard, -3 = legendary. Dont forget to make a backup of the original before editing, in case something goes wrong).

Something that I found strange and maybe the developers can confirm or not, was that when I loaded the Imperator Augustus map submod from your website (dont have steam version) I did get the updated map, but there were fewer mercs to recruit. Is that intended?

It's a pity that the discord for this mod is not that active, as I feel there's so much to talk about.

All in all, seems a great mod and I cant wait to start my first playthrough