Reviews - sonofapollo

Hard to review this in its alpha state because is is so barren-not many features yet. As it is I would give it a 5 rating. What makes it playable is the Bran Mac Born Campaign and Battle sub mods together with the 4tpy Complete and 3rd/4th tier units sub mods The Bran Campaign sub mod really brings everything to LIFE! Action!! Without it the 1212 mod is static and passive and very dull. I did not find the battles very exciting without the Bran battle Ai submod..now battles are epic affairs. So with the above sub mods this gets an 8. But the developers have a very long way to make this a complete overhaul...I hope they finish it. It has the potential of being one of the best mods ever.

I found this mod to be pure tedium. The game play is slow and the battles are just absurdly slow-sieges are insane slow-is this supposed to be fun? The mod crashes all the time-not good. Making everything more complicated does not make it better. They are trying to make the game more realistic and it is not-most of the changes don't make the game better. Why is this mod so hyped? I think they have a hype machine behind it. They want to be Europa Babarorum for Rome 2. I can play that mod for Rome 1 and Medieval Total War. Rome 2 is a broken game with a failed design concept from the start-you cannot fix what is wrong in concept. The insane buffs the developers give to the Ai are just way over the top absurd. Since Rome 2 has no real AI to speak of this is just poring gas on the fire of failure.The mod is poorly optimized as it crashes all the time-they need to fix this as of right now you cannot play for very long before crash to desk top. sucks. I want to have a fun time playing a game and this is not for me.The mod does have nice unit models and unit cards. Overall- 2 out of 10.
Addendum: Came back to try this with new beta for new battle settings. Sad to report that battles are worse. Same blobbing behavior and the battles take so much time. This should not be happening. If the developers of this mod hype that it is going to be better then it well should be better-it is not. my score for this version is 1.

Let's be very candid here-_ I have tried all the major overhaul mods for Rome 2 and this one Wars of the Gods gave me the most challenge of all. The Ai is wicked and evil and will take advantage of any weakness you have as a player-your enemies will ally together and make coordinated attacks on your forces. Diplomacy is great in this mod as your allies will send over armies to protect your cities and help fight in battles-so it is important to make allies early in your campaign. Money is high early on but buildings and units are very expensive so trade is very important-you really need to manage that side of the campaign or you will so bankrupt soon. There is a huge mix of units to recruit and they all look very nice indeed. The battles in this mod are brutal bloody and epic-massive armies will attack you and the ai in the battles just seems to be a bit better than the other mods I have tried- they flank and retreat and regroup and attack again. I love the look of the mod the UI is very cool and colorful Excellent. 10/10