Vanilla campaign using the BI executable

[Pesticide]

Recently started to play vanilla after reading the executables of the different expansions could be used in vanilla and I managed to get the Barbarian invasion exe working with the vanilla game bye adding the following to the executable: rome.exe -mod: ( also works in steam as launch option) . Just keep the mod empty and launch. For steam i had to rename the bi.exe to rome and the appbi to app.

You will have the BI intro but the menu and skins will be vanilla and the first thing i noticed from the campaign i started the day before, scipio didnt get stuck on the island and i saw scipio carthage and spain all do naval invasions in the first few turns. Pretty impressive change from the 1.5 version. You will see 1.6 version in options if all worked fine. Im about 50 turns in and no crashes sofar.

I also own Alexander and will try to use the 1.9 exe version in a third playthrough but i heard it misses shieldwall feature.

Really wish CA would release a 2.0 version that would work in all games with all features and benefits for all campaigns , maybe for the 10 year release or so. Please CA do us this favor , it would be awesome to have all the benefits of 1.6 and 1.9 exe version combined in a 2.0

[Rex Romanorum]

I don´t see them making anything for this old game I guess next Total War will be Rome 2 so this game will be forgotten


by the way, did napoleon total war armies perform naval invasions?? it´s unbelievable how game developers just keep improving graphics while we keep fighting the same stupid AI as time goes by

[Pesticide]

ive seen the british invade france, yes , But CA has 'cleverly' solved most of the campaign AI bye reducing the amount of roads n routes the AI can take thus increasing the chance it will do smarting considered 'smart'

They must have learned new AI stuff from shogun, i really want them to include them into the older titles, its the same engine so must be possible, shogun2 ai fixes for NTW and ETW.

We wont get patches if we dont ask for them, help support our commen goal and mention in the shogun 2 forum you to would like to see ai patches n fixed for older titles in this thread http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...wpost&t=487824

I must say i was very happy with the BI AI , scipio and brutia where doing very nice conquests compared to my vanilla campaign.