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What an extension of the Persian Empire does is make the conquest of Persia essentially impossible - as it would have been unless Trajan had given it a go when still young. Hadrian made the call no further, abandoned Mesopatamia and forever changed the Empire from expansive to defensive. The...

I have bought, installed but not played Civ V as it strikes me that some of the choices made by the designers are not to my taste, so I have been waiting for some mods (while enjoying other games like MoM, while EWoM hopefully evolves into a game that is fun). Unlike the OP, I am pretty sure...

From Civ3, updated versions of RFRE, DyP/RnR, Warhammer (all of which I still play); from Civ4, FFH (the only reason I kept playing Civ4). These were all brilliant mods using the less advanced modding tools now available. The OP mentioned a MoM mod, which i too would like to see. However...

MoM was the best TBS game of all time, at least for me. I can say that with confidence because beside my twin 3.73 GHz processor, 64 GB ram, 2 Meg video card, etc etc PC on which I run today's games, I have a 486/100 MHz PC on which I still run MoM from time to time. That can't be said for any...

Thank you for the explanation areon. And your assessment is spot on. With the bigger map I am using, I have added a bunch of Persian cities to the east (as well as a bunch of cities for Germania, Gothia and Scythia). Have done some stuff to make Rome (and others) potentially stronger early...

Question for any of the mod cognoscenti: trying to move this mod to a slightly bigger map, partly because I find the map edges in Africa and, especially Aegypt, annoying. APartly because Persia should be much bigger than it is. But mainly, would like to allow more campaigning along the Danube...

Just want to take the opportunity to thank the mod developer(s) again. This is a great mod and does a brilliant job of following history - always with potential surprises along the way (example: Caesar about to conquer Gaul when Germania and Dacia invade Transalpine Gaul and Illyria rspectively...

Christophoros: clearly I should have reread your posts before making my suggestion. Pleased to hear it as that will work pretty well I believe.

Interesting update Starzo; just about where I am in my game. I have a lot more money than your total but am also running a much bigger deficit. I also still have a bunch of Legiones Imperatores which I have not converted to Legiones Mercenarii, as I want to maintain more offensive, or at least...

Christophorus: unless you are planning to rewrite the underlying code for Civ3, there are simply things that you won't be able to do. Once you take care of the rapid movement options, road movement won't exactly allow the redeployment of units from one end of the Empire to the other in less than...

It is actually easier to run a surplus in civil war than republic as long as one accepts a slower reserch time. Haven't delved deep into the biq (because I always end up tweaking when I do) but strongly suspect it is a unit support cost difference so even though your income has had a major drop...

Stazro, enjoying your story. I am now playing the 100 BC mod and it is much harder than the 275 BC mod (once one is past the first few brutally tough decades in the 275 version). Fewer units, less money, less income, no (essentially) servi and tougher opponents. I have no illusions that I will...

I like Christophorus´ suggestion (excuse my typing, on a Spanish keyboard and it is not clear how to do some standard English things). Much simpler than some of the suggestions but probably at least as effective. But I must also agree with jlvfr that most people play to win, not lose agonizingly...

I aim to try the 325 AD mod, I just need to work into it more gently. I am having enough trouble with 100 BC to indicate that I was wise to put off the real test for awhile. I am now in 60 BC and about to fall way behind the timeline (I am also typing on one of those Gerrmania keyboards -...

Thanks, that is what I wanted confirmed. And I had remembered the civil war for lex agraria. It seemed to me that I spent most of the game between Lex Agraria and Age of Augustus in Civil War - and I had to keep reading the Guide as it is very easy not to know that one HAS to be in Civil War...