Reviews - SwordofTalos

This is a famous mod indeed-it has a lot of added mechanics for the player to do to give Rome 2 some depth. reminds me of the old Europa Barbarorum for Rome Total War... I like what the developers have tried to do here..but the game play is sluggish and the battles can go on forever. There are sub mods that speed battles up-so that is ok. The mod has a whole lot of nice unit skins. The campaign ai sometimes seems to do nothing as it is kind of static...most nations just stay in there original areas and do not expand..I think this is design like that as to keep the campaign to be more historical? But for me I would like to have more action on the campaign...I guess it is just playing style. The other thing that bugged me is the mod seemed to crash a lot or freeze on my machine and because of the graphics on this mod the frame rates took a hit. Frustrating. Anyhow I would give the developers of this mod a 10 for all the effort that went into it-all very good stuff.. but was let down by the kind of passive campaign ai and the sloggy battle system and the constant crashes So it gets a 2 out 10.

I have been playing this mod after seeing it streamed on Twitch by Lionheartx10. Here are my impressions:
1. Campaign AI- very aggressive and challenging, a lot of diplomacy going on all over the map-trade deals, alliances and confederations, Ai builds strong armies with good mix of units, the ai will protect your lands, they send armies to help you out and guard your cities-I love that. There is money at the start but soon you spend it as costs are high. You cannot steam roll this AI- hard to push out of your region at first. You have to really think out your moves.
2. Battles- the battles are very tough-enemy is relentless-they flank you and retreat and attack again-never experienced this before-I do not know what they did-but is just better than I expected.
3. Units-just beautiful models and over 1500 of them-that is a lot to choose from- some of the best looking units I have seen and unique to each faction-so thumbs up.
4. UI- the UI and loading screens and unit cards are fantastic looking-very colorful and different.Eye candy.
5. Fun Factor- This is my far the most fun I have had playing Rome 2-it is difficult but in a entertaining way but unlike the micro management sloginess of mods like DEI (good mod that it is) This mod has more things going on the campaign map-unpredictable-like the Ai is human like in its moves.
So summing up this is a superior mod in all aspects of game play and I highly recommend every one try it out-Gets a solid 10 out of 10 score.