Just a Thank You

[Godz_Mercenary]

All the work you guys are doing and have done have done so much to make this game fantastic. I just want the team to know that although the community don't always show it, the appreciation is always there. Keep up the awesome work and thank you

[adambomb1]

I agree.

[Meethos]

Agreed. You guys rock!

[sanjayraj85]

[tungri_centurio]

AMEN to that

[moha338]

I agree! Thank you for all the hard work!

[Blasphemer.]

Yeah! Thank you so much DeI team you are the true roman gods!

[rjacko10]

Completely agree. Well worth waiting 16 months for. Love love love it!

[Hadro]

Totally agreed! dare I say, the BEST mod of any game I have played in terms of addition of content and balancing/fixing basic gameplay mechanics

[peoplescavalry]

Always thought that Third Age Total War was the best mod ever but this runs it a close second, in fact in some ways it's more remarkable in its ability to transform a flawed disaster into a great game.

[mester]

I Agree totally. Because of Dei I haven't played vanilla for months. I couldn't stand the current state of the vanilla game. The only reason I started playing vanilla was because I started playing multiplayer with a friend. But he tried Dei and the possibility to play vanilla again seems too small.

[Tundra98]

im just going to say this. i stopped playing DeI in 0.85, which got me hooked for weeks. After that, i tried to play rome 2 again and got Radious' full overhaul, as parthia. After having 2 armies on turn 1 and completely ANIHILATING the selucids and all their satrapies by turn 100 (i think), having 14 armies all STACKED with elite troops,i got absolutely bored. Then on EE i tried it again and put 182732319273982173 mods into my game to personalize my experience. 2 weeks later while playing a combination of different battle, tpy, music, unit mods, i didnt want to play anymore.

DeI 1.0 hit and i decided to try it out.

i went from 8 am to 2 pm and then from 4 pm to 8 pm on a roman campaign in which i only conquered 2/3 regions of cisalpina and declared war on some illyrians. Following day i got 3/3 regions in Illyria and satrapied sparta. I dont remember having this much fun in rome 2 since, ever. I've done my case

[loukylouk]

[Jin-]

I never played vanilla except a first day on that broken tutorial mission. Then i downloaded first version of DeI . But then again i never played any vanilla Total War (Except Rome1 BI), to be honest they are complete rubbish. Mods are what bring them alive
Total War belongs to same category as Fallout 3/NV and TES series, mods and these games live forever

Too bad CA is getting "EGO" greedy and not releasing all the mod tools, i bet they don't want to get overshadowed by mod makers. Veterans know they have been overshadowed ages ago, but the casual Sunday gamers don't and they wanna keep it that way . Grand examples are RTR, RS II, TA and SS mods

[ificrates]

You have our gratitude.

[tonedog]

defo currently the best rome 2 mod, hopefully it can get even better.

[loony]

wanted to add to the "thank you"

Played 2 campaigns with DEI 1.0x, Roma and Sparta, both VH/N.

Roma was relatively easy, however demanded well handled diplomacy, patience and planning. However, I still felt like a jggernaut due to recruitment pool in Italia, large tax base and lots of strategic depth.
My units were strong, my unit choice - large, my enemies far from each other, ready to be isolated and destroyed.
I took out the barbs in Cisalpina before they could ally or be conquered by anyone else, formed a strong NAP, Trade and Military Access relationship with barbs in raetia and norricum.
Syracuse captured sicily, so I took them out.
Then took Epirus, Athens and Macedon (in one sway), with heavy merc use.
After that I am unstoppable due to economy (+10 000 per turn) and 6 experienced armies.

Still despite being a relatively easy campaign, there was a lot of tension, negative income when merced up, lost settlements and lost battles.

The fun started with Sparta
Start 1. Lost in turn 8 or 10, when captured apollonia. Antigonidai declare war. Athens declare war. Athens capture sparta. Roma declares war, sieges Apollonia. No chance battle. LOST
Start 2. Build up army, turn 10 Athens declare war on Antigonidai, however, there is an army in Athens, i cannot attack. Turn 15 Antigonidai destroyed, athens at war with barbs in the north. I attack, capture athens. 2 Athenian stacks appear. One sieges Athens, another... CAPTURES SPARTA. I beat the one sieging on my turn, but the second stack sieges again. My depleted army and garrison have no chance. LOST.
Start 3. Turn 6 Athens fight Epirus, move their stacks out. I declare war with NAP and Trade going (become Unreliable), capture Athens. Antigonidai declare war, Bythnia (?) declare war, Pergamon declares war. No one will trade. However, I have 2 turns to replenish before Athens and Antigonidai attack Athens (luckily on separate turns). I manage to hold.

So the third start finally took off. I beat back the athenian stack to Larissa, build up, capture larissa and become stalemated by Epirus and Antigonidai both sending stacks at me in Larissa. For 10 turns i have NOTHING to do but to recruit, fight, replenish, fight. I was thinking that if Bythnia showed up, I would lose this campaign as well.
However, on turn 20 Antigonidai and Epirus start fighting among themselves. I capture apollonia, destroy Epirus and begin raising a 2nd army. My first army has to constantly move to both reinforce Larissa and defend Apollonia from Antigonidai.
Only when a 2nd army had 10 units I was able to think about using the 1st to attack Pella.
Then Ariadrei declare war, capture Apollonia.
I re-capture.
Antigonidai attack Larissa, tough battle with a 2nd army. All garrison dead, I prevail.
I attack Epidamnos with the 1st army, tough battle (Spartan Royal Hoplites - my general - hold like 5 units in place while I use helots to shoot them in the back. 80% losses on my side) sack the city and then loot the city.
Antigonidai capture Apollonia.
My 1st army hires mercs (cash from looting), kills Antigonidai in Apollonia, re-take apollonia.
Antigonidai attack Larissa with 1.5 stack. I lose, they capture Larissa with heavy losses.
I attack with 1st army - re-capture Larissa. Start re-raising troops after disbanding mercs.
Then I see antigonidai placing troops near Pella. I hire mercs again (treasury at 500, income at -1400), attack and win against garisson. yoo hoo. I have my first province
I hope i can now defend at Pella and repair damaged buildings (even athens are still burning), get some trade and some breathing room.

So two campaigns and so very different; different battles and units? Yes, but the strategic challege is so much different. Finally, there is a difference between easy and hard factions. Finally there are campaigns worth playing.
In all my earlier campaigns never did I feel the need to attack with treaties in place, never had I been so overstreched against multiple enemies. Never did I have to play each battle manually, because extra 10% losses would have lost a campaign.
I must say, this has been the most fun I had with gaming for quite a while

I will play 2 more campaigns (nomads and cessetani or nervii) and I hope the DLC campaigns will be DEI'ized by then. Cannot wait for a proper challenge as Caesar in Gaul :-)

[FlashHeart07]

I will play 2 more campaigns (nomads and cessetani or nervii) and I hope the DLC campaigns will be DEI'ized by then. Cannot wait for a proper challenge as Caesar in Gaul :-)

I would suggest waiting to start a campaign with the Nervii.

[loony]

I would suggest waiting to start a campaign with the Nervii.

Why so? Is there something to be rewamped?
I will play Syracuse campaign once the naval battles are overhauled, however, I think that is irrelevant for Nervii.

[FlashHeart07]

Why so? Is there something to be rewamped?
I will play Syracuse campaign once the naval battles are overhauled, however, I think that is irrelevant for Nervii.

Maybe I would wait