DEI or Parabellum

[Timmy the Dragonborn]

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[wjpower2003]

It really depends what you are looking for. DEI is very in depth with some unique functionalities such as:

- "Prominent Faction Leader" which gives your Faction Leader a rating with traits which affect diplomacy, party politics, public order, population growth, empire maintenance etc.

- There is also "People of Rome" which gives every playable faction historically-accurate population class systems which is linked to the recruitment of units.

- Lastly there is the "Supply Line Reform System" which allows for the construction of buildings which allow the extension of an army's supply lines in some cases up to 3 regions away from the region which contains that building thus preventing attrition.

These used to be submods which were incorporated into DEI long ago and add more depth to the game and forces the player to have to think about aspects of the game from multiple angles and then plan well in advance for what your next move is going to be either politically, diplomatically, economically militarily etc

Para Bellum is a pretty good one too but is more like a beefier version of Vanilla with lots of sub mods which allows the player to tailor aspects of the game to their personal play style. I tried Para Bellum for a while but for me, going from DEI to Para Bellum is like going from Drinking cofffe back to drinking tea.

[kam2150]

DeI short change list:
- Overhauled Battle System from the ground up with new mechanics, better AI and more realistic combat.
- Over 3000 new units for 45+ playable factions including an Area of Recruitment system.
- A Unique and Customized Population System that adds depth and strategy to recruitment.
- A Supply System that requires logistical planning.
- A Specialized Reform system based on various triggers for different factions.
- Special Cultural and Factional systems that make each faction feel unique.
- New and Customized Economy and Hundreds of New Buildings
- Character Systems with various RPG elements and special traits
- Much, much, much, much more!

Para Bellum is also very good and a bit more modular so you can just enable parts of the mod you want.

[BRAN MAC BORN]

WARS OF THE GODS - ANCIENT WARS = you get the best of both! 50+ sub mods!!

[Solaire]

Originally posted by kam2150:

DeI short change list:
- Overhauled Battle System from the ground up with new mechanics, better AI and more realistic combat.
- Over 3000 new units for 45+ playable factions including an Area of Recruitment system.
- A Unique and Customized Population System that adds depth and strategy to recruitment.
- A Supply System that requires logistical planning.
- A Specialized Reform system based on various triggers for different factions.
- Special Cultural and Factional systems that make each faction feel unique.
- New and Customized Economy and Hundreds of New Buildings
- Character Systems with various RPG elements and special traits
- Much, much, much, much more!

Para Bellum is also very good and a bit more modular so you can just enable parts of the mod you want.

- End turn timers that take 5 minutes to finish

[kam2150]

30 seconds in early game and 45 seconds in late game.

Last time I had 5 minute turn times in TW was in EB1 back in 2008 and with crappy PC.

There are many factors to turn time in Rome 2, for example having huge family tree is one of major factors that increase it, due to bad way game calcs gravitas per each character.
Even stuff like having mod installed manually vs subed on Steam has big effect on overall load times as manual install means 2-3 times faster load times.