A huge effort has gone into remodelling most of the units, new skins(historicaly accurate!) and units and the whole game is a lot tougher to steamroll( a common flaw in Total War games in general). I played around with a couple of games of vanilla Rome and Barbarian Invaision, and they were fine, but it is quite amazing the difference this mod makes - it almost becomes an rpg, in the same way family line is important in Crusader Kings, you get that here. The best way to get the info on what exactly ExRM adds to Rome:TW is to head over to the site to download the mod:įollow the install instructions and then explore inside your Rome:TW directory to find the folder called ExRM inside you should find lots of readme's and a handy pdf guide that will give the bulk of the detail. I would say that ExRM is to Rome Total War like Fall from Heaven II is to CivIV. Well anyway this thread is going to be about the game plus an excellent(if not quite finished) mod called ExRM(Extended Realism Mod).ĮxRM takes another great mod called RTR(rome total realism) and expands on it introducing a whole bunch of fan made additions that really show what a dedicated and educated team can do to a mere game. I came to it late as i didnt like the early reports of the siege bug that took forever to get fixed and i wasn't 100% convinced the switch to full 3D was going to improve the strategy of the game.

Rome Total War in the shape of the 'Rome Total War: Anthology' bundle(includes Rome and the Barbarian Invaision and Alexander expansions), is the last of the total war series i have tried out.

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