RTR Addiction?

[Thiudareiks Flavius]

While we still wait in desperation for the release of RTR 7.0 I was toying with the idea of giving the Europa Barbarorum Mod a shot. Is it better than the current available RTR Gold? What are the major differences between both Mods?

I've played both and both are pretty good. I prefer EB because many of the skins are much more accurate and the names of the factions and leaders are all very well researched.

I'm currently working with the 'Sweboz'/Germanic team to make that faction even more accurate. We're reducing the number of units with swords, giving a lot of the shields wooden bosses, introducing bone-headed spears for poorer warriors, cutting down on the numbers of axes used and including wooden clubs.

In terms of gameplay and recruitment, both are far better than vanilla RTW. Winning battles against equal-sized or superior forces is very hard in both and holding down conquered territory without giving good reasons not to rebel is very difficult. Raising and maintaining new units is also much more expensive and difficult, so rasing vast armies and sweeping all before you is difficult to do without going totally bankrupt.