Best mod add-ons
What do you expect from your best mod?
Since the vanilla game doesn't provide a lot of extra things, I wonder what's what make you to choose and play a certain mod.
For my personal xperience I prefer those add-ins:
* 4tpy
* Regional units: I want to have exotic units only from a certain city or region (Italic peninsula, Egypt, etc...), that's a good gift!! (RTR for example)
* Great number of factions
* 3 roman families, but whitout SPQR faction. The Senate bores me a lot!
* Big maps including several choices amongst them. With a good variety of cities and regions also. (Barebones has a lot of them)
* Increased the number of war machines per unit. I've found stupid to have only 4 scorpions which makes no damage at all and I finally avoid to build more.
* Good archers and peltasts. Arrows and javelines increased power.
* Really nice skins, Spartan hoplites e.g. (SPQR ones are great)
* Weaker cavalry, but with good charging power.
* Religion as in BI.
* Religion buildings providing units and/or improves to the normal units.
* Rebels! Rebels have to be a problem themselves! They have to pursue you, sink your fleet...they have to annoy you!
* AI intelligence. Expecting a lot of difficulty playing against Carthage, Egypt, Parthia, German, ... and a lot of resistance against Spain, Gaul or another minor cultures.
* Good sounds and music (I remember Barebones warcry...or SPQR charging music WOW! :happy0144 )
* No land bridges!Build your fleet!
* Generals recruitment. To be honest my idea is that you can recruit "minor" generals while great ones come from your family tree.
* A great number of units to make your army. The perfect recruitment list have to have regular units with low-medium strength, a 3/4 of superior faction units and finally 1 or 2 special ones which are really superb.
* Color uniform, in some mods I cannot distinguish from your soldiers than enemies ones. I like to see them at a glance.
Well that's my opinion, pls don't hesitate to comment it and to add your own ideas! Maybe someone will create that mod...someday.[list]
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Awesome faction specific historical formation (roman manipular, barbarian onslaught, epigonus, alexander's, eastern skirmish, etc.) I've had my a$$ handed to me back many times (esp when you play without pausing the battle). Truly a great mod: it has all of the features you mentioned except: 4tpy; area of recruitment (like in RTR - but Darth has balanced steamroll effect with culture unhapiness and unrest so you can't roll like in vanilla); generals' recruitment (although it's in in DM BI!). Other than that all the other features are in! + all units reskinned using great skinners' work and many new units 
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