Avec plaisir!
I modded the DV pack file.
One thing I didn't mention is that I doubled all of the build times for every building. It didn't make sense to me that on 24TPY you could expand Roma in 6 turns
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Perhaps Ygraine would be OK with me sharing my modded version with you - send him a PM?
The main thing is to make sure you exit the game and mod back in the increases in base income (GDP) for the AI so they can continue to present a challenge to you. 1k gold at 25 Gold per unit is 40 units, so giving them 3k vs 2k in the beginning gives them a free stack of 40 units. Do you play with 41 units enabled?
My only concern with DV is that the new combat work being done by KAM will be so good that DV battles will be 2 generations behind. They are still challenging for sure, but from what I am seeing with KAM's latest work, we will be missing out on a lot of innovative stuff if we stay with DV.
So...I am considering sending Ygraine a PM to see if he will allow a Campaign AI only submod so we can have the BAI of KAM and the CAI of DV, best of both worlds!
I also use Cultural Tensio and De AI Arbitriis loaded before DV, and that makes things even harder I think.
I am considering modding things further to give Rome a slightly larger starting army (with some Levy troops) and better relations with the Venetii which they had historically.
I seriously would love to know how anyone can play DV as Rome without changing anything and make it past 50 turns without using any forts.