Any mods that make DEI just a little less crushingly difficult to play as Carthage?

[Mongol The Unwise]

I started playing the game with this mods recently, and wanted to play as Carthage, it being one of my favorite factions, however, i quickly discovered that it seems half impossible to get a game going as this faction. Despite holding plenty of land, the faction is not very strong in economy, and trading brings in next to no gold, to the point that it is almost the same as to not trade at all. Thanks to being broke all the time, maintaining any good forces on the field is excruciatingly difficult, and the AIs ability to spawn full stack armies for 1 town factions, is made just more annoying.

Not just that, but maintaining public order is a struggle too, much because of the need to hold taxes high, in order to get any money coming in. But then the game turns to an attempt of balancing army development-public order and developing the regions, all which takes money, that i simply, don't have.

I am not a new player to this game, nor Total Wars in general, but still, this campaign feels just, way too difficult, to the point that, it honestly isn't even fun. It is by far the hardest and most punishing campaign as Carthage that i have ever played, in base game or with other mods. So i wonder, if there is any mod that would maybe boost the factional economy a little, or give it better forces to start with, to get conquering early on?

Or better yet, remove AIs ability to fart out armies from nowhere.

[wjpower2003]

Along with various versions of the main DEI mod, the DEI official website has some submods which affect difficulty in both directions.

[wjpower2003]

There is also a mod called "Alternative Campaign Experience" which I believe is by KAM2150 from the DEI modding team.

[backwards doG]

If you find Carthage difficult, try Rome. The beginning is make or break.

[Mongol The Unwise]

Originally posted by backwards doG:

If you find Carthage difficult, try Rome. The beginning is make or break.

Yeah, no. I hate Rome. To me, it is one of the most boring faction of the antiquity, ironically

[Mongol The Unwise]

Originally posted by wjpower2003:

There is also a mod called "Alternative Campaign Experience" which I believe is by KAM2150 from the DEI modding team.

Aight, thanks

[wjpower2003]

Originally posted by Darth Mongol The Unwise:

Originally posted by wjpower2003:

There is also a mod called "Alternative Campaign Experience" which I believe is by KAM2150 from the DEI modding team.

Aight, thanks

From what Kam has written about it before, it tweaks some AI aggression, economic values among other things to make the game easier in the beginning but gradually more difficult as the game progresses so that you can hit the ground running and get used to the game before the poop hits the fan.

[kam2150]

Here is the link.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2461514066&tscn=1648867600