Thinking of getting Alexander, need some help?

**Revan The Great** · May 27, 2010, 02:01 AM

Hi,

I saw that the Alexander expansion pack was for sale on Steam for 10 bucks so I thought why not, I should get it. However, both my Rome: Total War and Barbarian Invasion are physical store-bought copies, so I'm wondering if they would be compatible with the Steam version of ALEX: Total War. Both for this mod and other purposes.

And, if so, would I need to redownload all of Roma Surrectum beta, and if there was anything special about including ALEX in it. When I get it off of Steam it goes into its own Steam folders and is there any problem just copy pasting that in? I just need someone in my same position to tell them me how it works.

Edit: Stupid Steam won't let me purchase it without having the last two games on Steam. I guess you can just delete this.

**Rex Basiliscus** · May 27, 2010, 08:01 AM

I loathe Steam... If I were you I'd buy a physical copy

**dvk901** · May 27, 2010, 10:57 AM

Originally Posted by Revan The Great

Hi,

I saw that the Alexander expansion pack was for sale on Steam for 10 bucks so I thought why not, I should get it. However, both my Rome: Total War and Barbarian Invasion are physical store-bought copies, so I'm wondering if they would be compatible with the Steam version of ALEX: Total War. Both for this mod and other purposes.

And, if so, would I need to redownload all of Roma Surrectum beta, and if there was anything special about including ALEX in it. When I get it off of Steam it goes into its own Steam folders and is there any problem just copy pasting that in? I just need someone in my same position to tell them me how it works.

Edit: Stupid Steam won't let me purchase it without having the last two games on Steam. I guess you can just delete this.

PM me please.

**Paedric** · May 27, 2010, 11:15 AM

A coded message between two agents of the FBI?
A secret conspiracy against CA?

**Revan The Great** · May 27, 2010, 12:30 PM

The funny thing is he also sent me a PM saying 'PM' me, lol.

So I figured out that in Steam's typical idiocy they're selling Alexander for 9.99 but also the complete pack of Rome, BI, and Alex for 9.99 as well. So I guess I could just buy that...does anyone then know if there is any special consideration I need to mod a completely steam version of R:TW, BI, and Alexander?

**Marku** · May 27, 2010, 01:06 PM

wait for rome/bi/alex to be on sale on steam, i did, now i dont need my cds anymore!

**rory o'kane** · May 27, 2010, 05:04 PM

Err - i think 9.99 for a game an two expansion packs is pretty much THE definition of on sale.

**-evil-** · June 06, 2010, 05:09 PM

Originally Posted by rory o'kane

Err - i think 9.99 for a game an two expansion packs is pretty much THE definition of on sale.

I got lucky when I went out to buy it again maybe 2 year or so ago, i got all three together in my local shop for £5, they didn't have the case for it, just a bare black box with them in.

**sithlord447** · May 27, 2010, 05:44 PM

lol ya, and i looked and get the bundle with all 3 as in the desciption of the alex steam it said it requires a steam version of the first to games, so you would need to DL all 3

**Brusilov** · June 02, 2010, 01:18 PM

I'd still suggest buying them on disc. If you really want to play through Steam then you can always register them as a 'non Steam game'.

I've heard that in the past there have been probems with using a Steam RTW Alexander with the disc versions of RTW and/or RTW BI......

The only download of RTW Alexander I've ever had was the original one when the game has launched.

Also, the advantage of the disc version is that you can keep the original RTW install 'clean' and simply take a copy of that and apply the mod to the new copy. I don't know if that is possbiel with Steam.