Playing EBII feels like...

[Gothic]

... walking around an exhibition on ancient history and archeology in a huge museum - full of halls upon halls each dedicated to different cultures and areas.

First game I started up as Rome, and I think I spent some two hours just reading everything before even thinking about moving my first unit. I'd forgotten I was playing a game, and instead I was like a little kid who was allowed to pick up and look at objects at the museum, turn them around, gawk at them and finally, after many hours, set up all these fantastic, ancient objects of the past as toys and play with them! Living their lives, smelling the dust under their sandals, dreaming their dreams, sharing hopes and fears. I was immersed.

Thank you so much, EBII team. I know there is still much to do with the mod but even with what we have today, you have truly created a piece of art. An exhibition of times past, a playfield to explore, a world that will inspire people to study and learn history for many years to come.

[Samraat Mahendra Maurya]

I know right, there is so much history, History for every building, so amazing, it's 1000x better than any museum, 1000x more informative than any lecture and 1000x more interactive than any class, with the amazing music it feels so....right and great, this is how Total War should be!

First game I started up as Rome, and I think I spent some two hours just reading everything before even thinking about moving my first unit.

Haha same here! When i conquer a new region, so much to read and so fun!

Thank you so much, EBII team. I know there is still much to do with the mod but even with what we have today, you have truly created a piece of art. An exhibition of times past, a playfield to explore, a world that will inspire people to study and learn history for many years to come.

Perfectly said + 1

[dogukan]

The first game, I simply loved travelling around with my spy and discover things on the massive map.....going to sound a bit nerdy here but I imagined my spy as a form of network let by that guy walking on the desert, the steppes, the mountains discovering things. Not much fun of Europe in that sense, I love the Africa and Eastern bits of the map and the massive cities there it indeed has this amazing archeology feeling to it.

[Darkan]

... a breath of fresh air in a post apocalyptic world! Still haven't had time to actually play, reading a lot of stuff and basically just firing up different factions just to see more stuff!

[Iaius Statius Laurentius]

Yeah, the "tour guide" feature is a great new choice. I always loved the little geographic/cultural descriptions you got for conquering certain regions with certain cultures in EB, and it's even better now that the descriptions are no longer limited by trait length.