And questions of “What is this mod like?” are usually met with useless answers like “It’s fun!1!!1!” or “Just play it and see!” Figuring out which one you should play is daunting, especially when a campaign game could take anywhere from a few dozen to a few hundred hours. These are some of the largest and most intricate mods that have probably ever been created, and there is a metric ass-ton of them. Perhaps the biggest reason to play Rome is the wealth of mods that have been worked on, and are still being developed, nearly 8 years later.
It also has an elegant simplicity-units are responsive, charges and combat just feels ‘right’ in a way that, to me, was lacking in Medieval and Empire’s melee combat. Lumbering Greek Phalanxes, Roman Legions, Axe-wielding Northern Barbarians, Hunnish Horse Archers, Successor Armies, Spanish Hill Tribes-Rome forces you to constantly change your tactics and deal with new threats as you battle new factions. Rome is a lot of people’s favorite TW game, and despite all the graphical and gameplay improvements that have gone on in the series since, the reasons are simple It has a diversity unmatched in Medieval, Empire, or Shogun.
