Top Five Rome: Total War Mods to Play or Revisit in 2020! 

Hi Count, thanks so much for this post! Yes I started this channel to talk about the historical Total Wars and their mods since I was feeling nostalgic, and as someone who has had Fourth Age installed from wayyy back in the day thank you for all your hard work on it! There certainly are a ton of great mods for RTW..

FATW is probably one of the best mods made for the Total War games, considering what it achieves in such an old engine. It is truly a shame that it's impossible to mod the newer games to the same extent, especially the campaign map.

@@Aelendris Yeah, for me the pacing of the battles in FATW felt very similar to MTW (the original), which is probably my high-water mark for these things. (I didn't have anything to do with designing the battle aspect of the mod, so my praising it here isn't ego :P) Aradan did some amazing things with traits and mechanics to really stretch the campaign aspect as well. Completely agree about the mod limitations - it's too bad indeed.

@@Aelendris Definitely, FATW is probably one of the best TW mods of all time due to its incredible atmosphere and deep mechanics. I will definitely do a deep dive into the mod sometime soon.

@@baconbaron1776 No plans to do that at this time - the team is currently working on another Middle-earth mod (set earlier in the Third Age, using non-remastered Rome Alexander as a base). The Remaster has some advantages, but there also seem to be some problems (for me, the UI is a big one), and so far we haven't seen enough of a change in terms of what's possible for modding to make it worth putting all the time and effort into remaking the mod for that platform.

Yes it's a very good, overlooked mod! I'll be making some more content about it soon.

You should, the game holds up in my opinion, though it is no doubt clunkier than modern Total Wars. Mods are also generally easier to install when you've installed RTW from a cd vs steam.

Yeah as a kid EB 1 for Rome was a real inspiration for me, really a work of art. I hadn't tried any mods for Med 2 in awhile, so I was really glad to see that EB's sequel was released and is in a good state (I also find it more stable based on the Med 2 engine, at least for modern machines).

Hey Alexander - I do like Invasio Barbarorum very much. I will also check out the barbarian empires mod - thanks for the recommendation! I'm thinking more and more of doing another one of these, perhaps I have to make a top ten after all, there are too many good mods I didn't include here. Just wanted to focus on some mods that haven't received so much attention lately. :)

Gudea of Lagash no problem man. They are some interesting mods that I had never heard about : D but rs2 has problems trying to get it to work with steam. Also if you try barbarian empires, download the original for the vanilla campaigns, not the latest version (Hellenistic legacy) or try both : ) have fun and good day 👍

@@alexanderthegreat1356 check tartaros' comments below for some info on RS 2. Thanks for the advice, will do.

So underrated

@@GudeaTW it is, and you're doing a good thing in the Total War modding community by shouting these guys out

Haha thanks

LOL good catch

Are you playing on steam? Try to use my mod install guide for steam

I've heard of Ab Urbe Condita, will take a look. I've taken a look at Nation Empire War... I prefer Invasio Barbarorum mods for the late Roman period (I feel those mods are more devoted to historical accuracy) but I may do a video on it at some point.

@@GudeaTW Yes i agree the IB mods are more historically accurate, it's been a while since i played any though and can't remember how stable they are certainly as doing an LP for them but Nation Empire War is quite stable and might be easier for any new players as it doesn't look as tough as IB.

Thanks! Exactly, I've been waiting for the 3.0 version. I wanted to recommend mods that are pretty much completed in this list, but I'm definitely going to do another one of these featuring mods like Rise of Persia, IB: Ruina Romae, Bronze Age, Aristeia, etc. that I left out of this one.

@@GudeaTW Awsome keep up the great content man, this was quite the discovery :)

Yeah that is such a banging mod been playing a Babylon campaign. That is fun.

Thank you!

@@GudeaTW Hey. I'm pretty new to modding and that. I can't get the v1.6 patch to work. Do you know what i'd do? I run Gold Edition on steam

I'm trying to get LycanRising to work :)

I installed it from the Yandex link - the website is Russian but the mod is in English. Yeah FRRE hasn't gotten much attention in awhile it seems... www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?747079-Everythings-in-Russian-English-translation-needed

@@GudeaTW It's probably the best one. I was able to find First Man in Rome, the Marius-era mod, but it's woefully unpolished. It clearly wasn't finished to the extent of 77 BC however.

for original RTW? steam or cd? also depends on the mod. You can find help on the RTW community discord here: discord.gg/Utwbw66b

Hi rage, the 1.051 installer found here is the full install, and then there is a patch for Alexander if you want to run it with Alex instead of BI or RTW: www.moddb.com/mods/chivalry-total-war/downloads

It's a great mod, one of the most interesting fantasy mods for any total war game for sure

@@GudeaTW yeah im having a blast playing it right now, the talamasca order has some really cool looking units specially their order archers.

Was wondering the same. Best mod for rome1 period

Roma Surrectum 3 is literally the same as Roma Surrectum 2.6 but with better graphics and some minor changes on balancing, it's more like a submod to be fair.

@@DLockholm cities look alot different.pathfinding is even worse then before sadly

battles take wayy too long

It's in my top ten video (which is solely "top ten mods to play" without the "revisit" part) :)

Hi Apocryphon, remember not to use the mod launcher/shortcut if you're installing a RTW mod on Steam. Did you just install the regular full version or did you install it with the Alexander patch? In any case, if you installed the regular version without the Alexander patch, you need to right click on Rome Total War in Steam and go to properties, then launch options, and then add this in the launch options "RomeTW-BI.exe -nm -show_err -mod:Chivalry". (without the quotes) If you have installed the Alexander patch and you have Alexander, then in Rome Total War Alexander launch options add "-show_err -mod:Chivalry -noalexander". (without the quotes) Then launch the game from steam. Let me know if it works!

@@GudeaTW thanks I’ll try it tomorrow I’m in bed now do you use team viewer ?

@@apocryphonmusic7292 hopefully it works! No, I don't use team viewer

@@GudeaTW it did not work :( anyway you can use team viewer and help me out

@@apocryphonmusic7292 sorry to hear that! join the rome total war community discord here discord.com/invite/shEHMk4 and we at the community can definitely help you there, and you can post screenshots to show exactly what you're doing (or stream if necessary)

It's various campaign music from Rome Total War.

I'm running that fix

Hi Alex, I haven't yet had a chance to play that mod. Hopefully I'll have time soon!

@@GudeaTW Ok i`ll wait anyway ;)

Hi Maciej, thanks for the post! I don't like having too many battles or battles that are too long, so I always felt that SPQR wasn't aimed at me, but I will give it a try.

@@GudeaTW Wow, now 9.0 is latest version, my bad. Well, battles DO last long, but I prefer that over "5-minute battle mess" that is Rome 2. Its probably most difficult mod for Rome, but when you want best historical strategy game ever - SPQR is the only way.

I just found Gudea's Channel, and I'd have to second this recommendation. For me the battles in SPQR 9.0 are the purest representation of what total war battles could be. About the length, I found that RS II battles were actually longer? I do love SPQR for its focus on the Roman Military machine and managing and tracking legions over a 1000 turn campaign is an experience unmatched in modern TW. I still play to this day, there is actually a small fan made update to SPQR TW that improves the map even further!

It will never be possible on iOS, on Android it may be possible one day

@@GudeaTW ok, I'm in a unique situation. I don't have the original RTW, computer can't run RTW2 or the enhanced RTW version. The origjnal is no longer available for download. So I'm a bit frustrated because I would like to edit some changes to starting positions in rome total war (and possibly play multiple factions as I feel fairly certain I know how to do it), but I can't as I only have it available on Android. And of course no mods either lol. Any thoughts? This is driving me nuts.

So you can still purchase the original rtw - but to do so you need to purchase the remaster

@@GudeaTW please mod android lol

It seems like nobody is interested in modding mobile 😅

Lol yeah that's a good point about the old days, I probably thought things like that too..

lol I hate google... don't use any google products! Well... except Android, reluctantly...

Most historically accurate mods tend to add more flexible infantry to the Hellenistic factions, including Thureophoroi, heavier peltasts that act as line infantry, etc. Europa Barbarorum, Rome Total Realism VII, Roma Surrectum, they all add such units.

Sauron

Eb 2 is for medieval 2

Fall of Rome?

@@GudeaTW late Roman mod for Rome Barbarian Invasion. Had great unit textures and models, the mod creater pulled it years ago. Real shame as it was fully fleshed out and played really well.

@@user-dx6bv2pe1s Ah that's too bad. It's not available anywhere?

@@GudeaTW yea it was good. I like the channel, I made a lot of unit cards and textures in the IB2 mods and fall of the eagles

Yes I've played quite a bit of RS, just not the latest version. Unfortunately I don't have alex on Steam and I don't have access to my disc (in another country...). Thanks for the info! Thanks for the info on those mods! I'll be sure to try them out. I also wasn't aware that they had finally released Rvina Romae.... I would have definitely included it had I known! I guess I have to make another five RTW mods to try in 2020 list...

@@GudeaTW You don´t need Alex installed - just use the alex.exe option in the beginning, when opening the RSII dashboard. i didn´t own alex too , but it works for me. RR and NEW are my favorite RTW mods this year - both have a similar focus, but aren´t the same. NEW is getting a big update in september.

@@_tartaros_9997 great news, thanks for this. Also, would you be aware of a modfoldered version of RS 2? I did some digging but was unsuccessful, perhaps I didn't look hard enough

@@GudeaTW As i understand the dashboard in RSII, every campaign (1turn Rome + 1turn Rest/0turn recruitment Rest+Swapfactions) is a modfoldered campaign in itself. RSII is the only one i din´t start with steam via alex.exe. Curently i play a submods "When worlds collide"

Hi tartaros, I've been trying to get RS2 to work again (and when worlds collide), but I keep coming across the "chat filter san" not readable error. I've copy pasted that file everywhere and nothing seems to work...

Hi Kaiser Wilhelm II, unfortunately at this moment there is no way. On iOS it will never be possible, but on android it could happen.

Gudea TW I don’t even have android though :(

Gudea TW but the good thing is I’m getting a computer in about 4 weeks

@@That_migueldude68 yes as of now, a PC is the best option. I don't think they have gotten mods to work on even Android yet

Can be debatable, but yeah. Rome 1 however needs more factions. But it is good on its own still.

ETW and Shogun 2 are great too, honestly.

Sure