Roma Surrectum Mansio, a place for friendly off topic talk

[Primo]

My posts per day used to be over 50, but then I was forced to leave for a while - and then mods went on a killing deleting spree.

[Dean Martin]

I'm not a talkative person I think... For those 4 years spent on TWC I have only 221 posts.

[Ferdiad]

Ya, I juts need 90 ish posts to get not the top 50 posters. Haven't been spending much time on TWC lately though.

[Anthropoid]

Counting my deleted posts I've gotten around 22K posts in 5 months. I was a lurker pretty much before Late January.

HOLY SHITE FERDIAD!?

I've gone one board account that I've been on for like 8 years (Civilization "One Big Comunity" board) and I only have like 10K posts on that account, and I thought that was a lot. I see I've only taken my first steps into a larger world . . . and here I thought I had already graduated to jedi . . .

[Ferdiad]

Ferrets has about 56K atm.
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[Primo]

And he was banned the last half year.

[Rhaenys Targaryen]

I have over 25 posts now, but then I realised that I'm still not a member for at least a week.

[Braeburn]

I have over 25 posts now, but then I realised that I'm still not a member for at least a week.

Congratulations you are the 666th reply

[Rhaenys Targaryen]

-read what my avatar says- It says my post is #667.

[Gandalfus]

Haha fail
Luke Vaders was 666th

[Primo]

666th reply = 667th post

[Rhaenys Targaryen]

-Gaius Julius Caesar Approves-

[Primo]

[Rhaenys Targaryen]

Are you supposedly saying something in my name?

[Gandalfus]

The first post is everything!!!

[Rhaenys Targaryen]

This thread is really good, helps you get more posts while at the same time socialising with fellow Roma Surrectum players.

[Gandalfus]

i know right?
The Basilieus of the Varangians and the Romani approves this thread

[Anthropoid]

Underwhelmed by M2TW so far.

So I bought the definitive final compilation version (contains all the expansions I think) off Gamersgate a while back and finally got it all up and running. Did the Norman Conquest tactical tutorial and enough of the strategic one to see it is basically the same game with slightly different UI, different graphics and set in a different era.

But I'm feeling rather underwhelmed at this point. I enjoy medieval era games, but somehow this vanilla one is a bit off-putting to me. First of all the graphics are a bit hard to take after RS2.5. Seem a bit glary, lurid colors, and overly saturated or something. I guess medieval armies really were that colorful though . . .

Second, I'm not sure how much play I'll get out of vanilla. I suppose I should play a bit just to get experienced with the engine. But given my tastes for more-detail, more-complexity, more-realism, I think it is inevitable that I'll need to get into a mod or two to get any mileage out of the game.

Is there a mod for M2TW which is comparable in quality, detail, complexity, challenge and realism to RS2.5?

If not, can guys recommend mods for M2TW they really like and why? Linkies are appreciated

[Gandalfus]

Get stainless steel if you want an overhaul. There are plenty of other mods too, depending on your preference. Third Age Total war is an absolutely stonking lord of the rings mod. Then there is Call of Warhammer, The last Kingdom, there are absolutely loads.

[Rhaenys Targaryen]

Retrofit mod is quite good too.