When you install in BI....

[Valiant The Brave]

... do you lose the special temples(temple of mars)?

[♔Lord Stason♔]

No I'm actually using BI and i have everything from original RTW.

Same with Alexander expansion.

I've read somewhere all it does is give you better AI, true or not someone would need to clarify that.

[Valiant The Brave]

Thanks ^.^, BI adds horde and religon and formation and alexander adds better AI

[Kallides]

Alexander.exe is great. Don't really like the mods that can't use Alex.

[Squid]

First of all you don't "install in BI" follow the installation instructions and if you have BI installed you will see a shortcut for it, all this does in terms of RS is provide improved AI. Second, any mod can be made to run with the alex exe, its a very easy process to allow a mod to use the alex exe if it currently doesn't.

[Chicken]

yep, all you do is change the command line of the shortcut you're using

[Squid]

Not quite, making a mod compatible with alex is more complex than that.