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Should I be rushing for the reforms? What are the optimal governments? What good army compositions do I have available to me?

Honestly I do think there's good historical and game play reasons for not allowing KH to colonize. The type of colonization that a decentralized federation would enact would be different to the...

KB, and I have the latest version.

It is the same turn a faction (Pontus) re-emerges in one of my cities.

Was this fixed? I downloaded this version and the trait is still there (also trying to remove it through console commands only gives an error message, for whatever reason...).

Is the next release imminent?

Its the "Spartan interpretation of Thorax troops of other Hellenic factions", but unlike those troops, they're noticeably lacking in the chainmail department. Is there a specific reason for this?

How exactly does the AI switcher work? Is there a way to switch it in the bat file, or do I just copy and paste into the main file, data\descr_campaign_ai_db.xml?

DEI's system is better, I think, limiting reforms to a smaller turn time and imperium level (although obviously MedII doesn't allow for this). 500 turns is a bit much.

These look great, good job!

A pity. How do people deal with the Cursus in the late game then, aside from ignoring it completely?

I don't even care about new units, I just want reforms that makes managing the Cursus over a Mediterranean-spanning empire somewhat realistic.

I understand what the team is going for, making better battles than vanilla while staying clear from RSII-esque grindfests, but honestly battles can be a bit frustrating sometimes. The entire enemy...

Perfect, thank you!

Ah I see. I take it that there's no way of getting the BP now? I destroyed the Hellenic Administration and it hasn't spawned.

Hmmm, it hasn't been built for me. Anyone else run into this issue?

Does building a Hellenic Administration in Pella prior to the Kingship reform ruin the reform? I built all the required buildings and got the reform message, but no Basiliki Patris has been built in...

Tried Egypt recently and it was fun! You're a Hellenic faction that starts off strong (unlike KH/Makedonia/Epirus), but not sprawling (unlike the Seulukids). You start off at war with the Grey Death...

I've tried Numidia a few times but the oddly-darkened portraits and every character being called "of Numida" just annoys me too much.

Coming back to EB2 after a hiatus, looking for a fresh faction to try.

Are you establishing a lot of client states? The game counts client rulers as family members so having a lot of them reduces the amount of family members you will get.

Aside from that, I find the...

How did you deal with the Cursus? Just give up on it eventually?

Started a Carthage game with the beta AI, on the very first turn Rome broke its alliance with me and Numidia besieged one of my settlements.

Thanks for this!

So does just changing those three files, descr_campaign_db.xml, descr_campaign_ai_db.xml, and descr_diplomacy.xml, work?

If you find a way please let me know.

Indeed, the constant cycles of war followed by instant peace followed by war followed by peace is pretty tiresome.

On the contrary, but the current homicidal AI is making the wait for the next version feel a lot longer than reality.

The current iteration of EBII is the most awesome yet, but the new AI takes "Total War" far too literally. Games have been getting very frustrating very quickly lately.

The movement should definitely be kept for fleets. The one undeniable benefit of the new movement ranges is that it makes the late-game Cursus Honorum somewhat playable, fleets movement should be...

Speaking of the Diopter Basilikos ancillary, it really doesn't make sense that KH characters can get it. At least, they should have a league of cities-appropriate equivalent ("Strategos' Eye"...

Well if the flatter trajectory is the team's intention, it is the team's intention.

However, is there any plans to tone down the aggressiveness of the new AI?

I'd hold off for now, there's been talk of a possible R4 in the works, which is absolutely needed to tone down the current Game-of-Thrones-esque AI.

Disclaimer: I actually like the spirit of the new changes. Campaigns are a lot more dynamic and factions rise and fall with a satisfying regularity.

Its just that its a bit too hyperactive. Every...

Melee troops with javelins seem to stand still and not fight back in melee combat a lot more than they used to in previous versions. This only happens with the AI, my own troops are fine.

Damn! Time to put my Romani grand campaign on hold I guess.

In fairness its 255 BC in my current Pergamon campaign and I haven't had a single Galatian raid (in earlier versions I got one within the first few turns). Also I got the "Galatians are defeated"...

This looks interesting! But I thought R3 was ​the final version?

Nothing, I hadn't played in a few days, I came back and it was suddenly lag city.

It's happening on all new campaigns/battles as well.

The game was running fine, and now for some reason it lags to the point where the game is unplayable. I didn't change the game in any aspect prior to the lag starting. Even with the settings turned...

That's a surprise, because the current "placeholder" looks good enough to be the finished model.

On that note, if the epilektoi getting a new model soon, the current placeholder (with smaller...