Best enhanced vanilla type mod?

[Dong Quixote]

So I haven't played MII in like four years, but I put a few thousand hours into it pre-steam and I'm looking to get back into it. I remember there being a few good mods that just sorta amped up the vanilla experience with more factions and units. Ordinarily I play Stainless Steel but I'm in the mood for something slightly less difficult.

Anyone have any recommendations?

[HazardHawk]

Grand Campaign Mod... Find it through TWCenter along with many other mods.

[Inardesco]

Originally posted by Dong Quixote:

a few hours

Only a few? pff...Scrub.

[Ashur_Arbaces]

Try modding yourself. It's what I'm doing right now.
Trying to get it right yourself and tweaking the game to your liking is part of the fun :)

[HazardHawk]

Originally posted by Inardesco:

Originally posted by Dong Quixote:

a few hours

Only a few? pff...Scrub.

Kids so easily forget there was Medieval 2 long before everyone had steam

[Inardesco]

Originally posted by HazardHawk:

Originally posted by Inardesco:

Only a few? pff...Scrub.

Kids so easily forget there was Medieval 2 long before everyone had steam

Yeah, back when there were things called cd's. Until they broke, and torrents were praised.

[Hellsteeth30]

Also in the days when DVD DRM was a rampant menace. Sending some folk into the trojan ridden hell holes like Pirate Bay etc. Your PC had to be an impenetrable fortress to survive those and probably still does.

Steam and GOG actually curbed my desire to sail the seven seas in search of plunder........when there's a sale on.

HAH, a certain notorious website name is censored is it? They really think of everything.

[Ruinae Retroque Rursus]

I quite like Retrofit, which is literally the vanilla campaign on the Kingdoms engine, because it gives me boiling oil >:D

[Inardesco]

Originally posted by Hellsteeth30:

the trojan ridden hell holes

Well, in all my years of pirating (which ended after I started to use Steam more and more since DRM got better + a lot easier to have access to all your games on one platform) I've never had a virus ruin my pc.

Then again, I knew which copies to take and which to leave + most virusses weren't in the game itself but rather in the key generators, which, were useless if I got myself a copy and then inserted my own cd-key instead of buying a new physical copy when the cd broke.

[Hellsteeth30]

Ah yes, Trojan Generators. It really is amazing how they can get so much malware into one file.

I got one particular trojan that I had to delve deep into the registry to dispose of which got right by my virus checker. It was one those if you don't delete every trace of it then it rebuilds itself ones. It used secdrv.sys to hide itself, that file that was the root of most DRM back in the 2000s.

The irony wasn't wasted on me.

[Inardesco]

Yeah, used to have a shared PC with my 2 brothers, the amount of time I had to go and reinstall XP on it because they kept throwing sh*t at it was unbelievable. They'd just download everything that was left and right on the internet.

Since I've got my own pc's I've had like what, maybe 2-3 reinstalls on several pc's? Each and everytime I open my moms laptop, it's chuckfull of crap and I'm like....no wonder this thing is slow as f*ck.

[Gigantus]

Take a pick from this collection: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?556-Kingdoms-Hosted-Modifications