ALEXANDER EB

[iluvatar77]

what zip file?
i'm trying to play the EAEM full mod. vanilla EB with alex engine works just fine, but im having troble with the full EAEM mod, i've followed the installation instructions, applied the fixes...and nothing, doesnt work, im stuck at the main menu and i get the 'Select An Item From The List' error.

[Biggieboy]

Open ebconfig.xml with notepad in your Rome Total War folder and search for RomeTW.exe. Replace it with ALX Exe, save the file.

Hey JaM, thanks for the reply. I don't know if that's necessary anymore, but I'm not too sure. Here's what I did: I downloaded the small zip file, and extracted the files to their appropriate location. Now when I start EB, I see a small alexander icon in the bottom of the screen. I'm not all that interested in EAEM. Should I be?

[Biggieboy]

Open ebconfig.xml with notepad in your Rome Total War folder and search for RomeTW.exe. Replace it with ALX Exe, save the file.

I did that now, but now when I try to start a campaign game, it says "please choose an item of the list" or something. I can do custom battles, I can do historical battles, I can even load campaign games, but I can't start a new one. Some advice would be highly appreciated

[JaM]

I'm playing pure EB with modified ALEX.EXE (to allow more than 2GB RAM to be used - fixed all end battle CTDs with it). I tried to DL EAEM, but all links are broken.

[HUtH]

I'm playing pure EB with modified ALEX.EXE (to allow more than 2GB RAM to be used - fixed all end battle CTDs with it). I tried to DL EAEM, but all links are broken.

Look few posts above

Oh I would like to have that modified alex.exe... but I don't have even 2 GB of RAM haha But maybe you meant 2GB address space limit for single process on 32bit systems?

[JaM]

yes, thats what i meant

[JaM]

you also need those files copied into data folder that are mentioned at the first page.

[maksimus]

i can confirm all new links are working fine o.o

anyone cant download ? from main page?

[Dominatrixx]

At first, I want to let you know Maximus, that your mod is great. However I've decided to give it a try after some time and I have a pair of questions regarding gameplay (I'm using AlexEB 2009 from your latest download link);

I'm using RTW Gold + Alex + EB 1.2 with all fixes + EB scripg working well so techincally the Alex mod should run perfecly for me. I'm playing as Romani. Fromt he start it's all great - I have war with Pyrrhus and alliance with Carthage and everything going smoothly. After crusing Pyrrhus and taking the rest of Italy, I decided it's time to move to Sicilia. After moving there and defeating a big independent army guarding Messina, I've besieged the city, getting advisor's text that "moving our armies here can cause war with Carthage". Everything was ok so far. But I was quite surprised to see that Carthage didn't break alliance the same turn and was getting the same message again few turn in a row before Carthage finally declared war on me after I was located on Sicilia for 2 years (8 turns)! Then I finally took Messina, got war with Carthage and decided it's time when epic Punic War starts. But nothing really interesting happened... Carthage didn't start producing any armies or hiring any mercenaries on Sicily or in lesser colonies such as Corsica, they didn't blockade my ports (while having few big ships against only one I had) and were just sitting on place. When I've finally moved my army close to Lilibeo, Hamilcar's army attacked mine (having two times less soldiers) and lost without a chance, retreating with the rest of remaining people to Lilibeo (Hamilcar himself died during the combat). I've taken Corsica and Sardinia aswell with one tiny army because no extra armies were produced there and basic garrisons are almost non-existent. So now I have the following situation:

- It's 245 BC, Rome controls Corsica and Sardinia and can take Lilibeo any moment aswell.
- Carthage doesn't try to do ANYTHING to change the situation. No sea blockades, no armies are sent to retake holdings, no scripted armies appear, no armies being recruited in Africa.
- I've sent two spies to Africa and what I see now is: 1) Due some crazy reason the capital is moved from Carthage to Ipsos where the current Carthage leader is sitting along with tiny army; 2) The rest of Carthage "power" consists of two relatively weak armies located over the Carthagian territory + one huge army "bound" to Carthage (while Carthage itself is almost empty) + many family members + small garrisons in every town + few ships doing nothing but guarding port of Carthage. In general, Carthage army seems to be much smaller and weaker than even Epeirus one (!!!), not talking about Diadochi, who have armies like 10-15 times bigger then Carthage (which is strange as Carthage by that time was a super-powerful nation).
- Carthage is totally passive and not trying to take some independent cities, fight independednt armies, group exising armies, hire new people, send anything to fight against me... So I feel like Carthage has no interest in anything but guarding it's capital area.

Can you please tell me what's this? Is this something with Alexander EB mod or EB itself? Or maybe I've got EB script not working well due some reason? How to see Carthage in real action and in full power with huge armies involved, constant sea battles, assaults on the Sicily and Italy, being really aggressive in taking new holdings in Iberia and so? Ofc I'm ready to start a new game, just tell me what to do to make this mod reflect Punic Wars properly... I'm really disappointed to see how it's going seening massive battles which are going all over Greece, Asia Minor and Egypt (Diadochi and other surrounding nations ahve really awesome armies and managing them well).

And btw, why Corsica and Sardinia have such tiny armies guardnign it? It was so in EB, and it is in Alexander EB... You can take both isles so easy and Carthage not even care... Can this be fixed somehow, maybe manually?

Looking forward for your answer!

[JaM]

Thing you describe with Carthage is more of engine issue.. anyway it is possible to "cure it" but few things are needed first. Campaign map needs to be changed, and Carthage should not have passable borders with Ptolemies. There should be a landbridge in Gibraltar, so Carthage can move armies from Africa to Spain and back freely once it conquer the Algiers. Also changing Carthage AI type could have some effect (but just minor one)..

Anyway, currently, Carthage is much more concerned vs Ptolemies, than with Rome, and because of AI type, they almost never use navy (sailor type probably don't work, i've seen more Greek fleets than Carthagian..) removing dirrect border with Ptolemies and adding that land bridge would force Carthage to expand into Spain and then into southern Gaul, which means they will colide with Rome eventually... in my games, every time when i conquered few provinces in Spain and got a direct border with them, they attacked next turn(around year 220-215bc)... but because at that time they are fighting ptolemies or Seleucid, they have no chance...

[Dominatrixx]

So you think the map editing is needed and there is no way to fix this somehow in the different way?

[JaM]

yup. Until Carthage will have borders in africa with somebody, it wont care about expanding elsewhere.. It might conquer few provinces in Spain, but eventually it will end up in war with Ptolemies or Seleucids (depends on who roll over who first), which will eat all their war resources... (once i have witnessed Carthage conquering Egypt and fighting in Syria... and still not care about Spain, which was completely lost to them because of my invasion..)

[RedGuard]

it could also be due to the fact that The AI is unable to move that huge stack which is a huge strain on the economy and often send them into economic decline at the start of the game. also the fact that the eleutheori full stacks move from province to province and have ten star generals pretty much breaks the ai and they hardly ever expand into more than a few provinces in every game ive played on ALEXEB. pretty sad actually. I like the fights with the eleutehori but nothing beats fighting an actual faction.

[Dominatrixx]

Made Carthagian starting army stronger and gave them x2 on money, gameplay looks a bit better now imo. Btw I've got a trouble when I've attacked an independent army guarding Boii and Liguria regions, while the battle is loading I get CTD with "missing german_general.tga texture". How to fix that guys?

[Dominatrixx]

Also I've found that Pontus army have some phalanx unit with no name and no description. What's that?

Edit: Ok I've found that it's an unit called "AXEXEB hellenic infantrty chalkaspidai" or something like that, elite Pontic unit. But ingame it's called "Unsocialized text" and has no description. It looks like there is an error in some text file but what do I need to edit to fix that?

[Dominatrixx]

And how to make this mod compatable with RS2 battle graphics (http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...php?t=415513)? After I just extracted it into EB folder (as it's mentioned in install guide), my game CTDs while loading menu

[Dominatrixx]

Is this topic dead now?

[TiagoJRToledo]

Hey guys! Is it just my problem, or is the download link giving a 403-Forbidden?

[Dominatrixx]

Try links from Maximus on a previous page.

[Dominatrixx]

Maksimus where are you? I need some comments regarding your sub-mod gameplay