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This mod literally saved the game for many of Rome 2's players. If only CA realizes that there's nothing wrong with making things "realistic" and complex -- not streamline it to make it accessible for other casual or non-historical players.

DEI is Amazing It makes me care about my generals and the units in an Army. When I lost 2 out of the 3 units of triarii that I had for just over 100 turns in an army that had fought ever major battle, I was devastated. The battle was not going well out numbered 2 or 3 to 1 I knew I had to send them in to hold the centre after the first line started to buckle. I really didn't want to as I had grown so attached to them, but I did. We where "Going to the triarii" as the saying goes as I watch the old guard and vets now hold the line. They held and held slowly dwindling away, as I raced to try and break a flank so that I could save them. I eventually did but it was too late for most of them. I saved what I could and won the battle. I have never had so much attachment to any units like this before. Because you don't have the population to field hordes of them ever man counts for something on that battlefield. That Battle will forever go down in my history books as the day my brave Triarri saved the day for the glory of the Rome. #neverforget

Hell yeah DEI is a great mod. I remember playing Sparta, 100 turns passed and I'm still in Greece because Macedonia refuses to give up Pella and I had population problems.

It took me a while to get into it because it has a challenging start for Rome and other factions. I had to restart my campaign several times because the Greeks in Italy kept running circles around me. I usually start passively in tw then build a few high quality big armies and conquer everything, not here. I scrambled what I could and took the fight to them, even with terrible odds I eventually won with superior tactics I didn't know I was capable of, also deciding where to attack so I wouldn't leave my cities exposed for long, and sailing across the sea to completely destroy that faction that has been giving me hell. It puts the strategy back in grand strategies. After about 30 turns I realized I haven't had this much fun in a tw game since Medieval 2. Pure unadulterated fun.

The biggest part of this mod is the fact that losing troops actually matters and that you want to fight every battle. This is what made medieval 2 and rome 1 campaigns feel so immersive the fact that even in this battle against two or three units that you still need to conserve your strength because you have to go all the way back to the right settlements to reenforce your men. Part of the reason new total wars feel so boring is bc there is literally no consequences to battles you know you will win and the meter says you will win and to reinforce you just have to hit end turn a few times while you fall asleep at the keyboard

My Rome campaign has been a total blast, my Punic War was actually intense, working my way through Sicily only for a long stalemate and me finally getting a foothold in Africa. I have also had some insanely close battles where it literally came down to my velites to finish the battle. The population mechanic can be frustrating at times, but really adds weight and makes you cringe looking at your losses after each battle. Great mod.

to date, DEI is still the best total war experience ive ever had, total war WH2 included. 3k, all the saga titles, everything pales in comparison to the memories of the campaigns ive waged across the world in that mod.

This is the answer I've been searching for for years.... Carthage and Macedon always crumble so easily in the vanilla game. I need a historically accurate campaign with Scipii's legendary family members. Thank you sir

I remember when I was playing Rome 2 back in the day I didn't really feel like reading what each building gives so I pretty much just randomly build stuff. I stacked all armies with the classic triarii+principes+hastati+missiles(no triarii later) and a couple of cav to kill archers. I steamrolled through the world as Rome on hard difficulty with no problems. It was just so basic and battle AI was stupid. This looks a lot more interesting.

Wow they added an actual good game to the mod?

This mod has spoiled me as I can no longer play vanilla Rome 2 after playing this mod, truly the best mod out there, looking forward to the major update coming next year

I just tried DEI for the first time today and I don't think I could ever go back to vanilla. Mainly because it's way more fun to go out and find good units to hire to build out your armies. About to land on Create for the archers for example. My only complaint is turns for a building to be completed is a bit longer than I would like, like 6-10 turns. It feels like it should be 6 max.

What an excellent video mate! You covered pretty much everything great about the mod!

more than welcome to have such a detailed presentation of the mod i've been keep playing since 2015, so in total almost 7 years now! I bought Rome2 only to be able to play DEI! My best ever ever experience in ROME2 was in the dlc - Empire divided - even if DEI is not completly adapted or worked to integrate 100% into the DLC, i had the best AI and struggle experience in my Rome2 gameplay! Epic campaign !

The thing i love about dei is that AI looks for opportunities to expand. As far as i can remember Ai in vanilla was content with just owning a city. This made conquering much easier. In DEI however AI looks for opportunities. They look if faction is fighting anyone else and try to make use of this situation, doesnt turtle in the city (PO penalty). I have never seen Iceni leave british isles in vanilla, yet in DEI they conquered a whole province in todays France territory (dont know the name of region in game). Othher thing: having allies is actually useful. Im currently playing a germanic faction. Im fighting Rome (strongest faction in the game). Parthia ( second strongest faction in the game), since they are really far from where my forces where, took the opportunity and attacked. Was really annoying to deal with, but since i had allies nearby, they helped me a lot and even took 2 settlements from Parthia. Since my allies got bigger, i can now leave my empire flank unproctected (protected by allies, but not my forces). Another funny thing about this war with parthia is they were at war with my neighbours which were scythians. Parthia kept attacking scyhians only remaining settlement. The thing is climate in that region is really harsh and the whole region is really big and tikes few turns to march through. Parthia made i tactical move to use 3 of their armies to attack, but because of attrition, low movement points (winter penalties), drained the entire food supply. Now that region is really hard to conquer for AI, because their armies just starve without reaching their destination :D

If every Total War had the heart and soul of DEI.. 100% the BEST total war experience I've ever had. Cannot get enough of this

With this mod alone, you convinced me to buy Rome 2 total war

I installed this last week and it is a great improvement. I had not expected the huge change to the civilian part of the game, and it's impact on public order. Causing me to have to put down rebellion after rebellion. I have taken Sicily and once I pacify the region I'll cross into Carthage. You can't just roll through a province and carry on without giving a thought to putting down resistance and preventing rebellions anymore.

One of my favourite factions is Rhodos, I played the maritime game with them, with full slinger boat stacks raiding coasts, getting minor settlements, and eventually conquering every single town in mediterranean coast. I cheesed the catapult ships a lot. Good navy let's you move fast and sack everything in the shores and make vassals, if you don't intend to keep the place. With Rhodos also, while conquering Asia Minor (Turkey) I used Armenian territory as my sack city to level up my leader, it was fun to watch when the population was 0 after some time, it was completely desolate, and it gained like 500 people every turn, and then I'd take it back. Though this caused a lot of diplomatic penalties that I didn't count into, I got so powerful general that I could just sweep the enemies. In that playthrough I got my knack on the political side, and you really need to get into that when things start to grow, so your empire doesn't split haphazardly into 3 equal parts that are as strong as you. Remember to get the marriages going, don't get your political enemies killed in battlefield preferably, as it raises their discontent, and diminish their power whenever you can, and eventually you will gain supreme power in your lands eventually without a risk of civil wars.

Nice to see that DeI is still going strong

DEI saved my Rome 2 experience. You have to chose every movement wisely to make sure you don't overextend your supplylines. I also really got attached to certain top tier units with high experience you'd only throw into battle once it started going really bad. Ngl, battles are very though and really need tactics to overcome the Ai's use of top tier units combined with mass lower tier units. But it makes me barely use the auto resolve option because of the fun i have fighting the Ai. About the manpower mechanic, this should've been in the vanilla game imo. The way you can conquer new territory and replenish and recruit faction units right away as in the vanila game is just way too easy to conquer big chuncks of land. Now you have to conquer step by step, make sure your garrisons get refilled, get your public order in the positive and make sure there's enough population to refill you're armies aswell... so yes, it makes the game slower but none the less more enjoyable. One major issue is the diplomacy mechanic. Vanilla diplomacy sucks and tbh DEI didn't manage to function properly either. With random war declarations, but then instantly wanna peace out even if i demand like 10k, 100+ opinion but still don't want to trade or form alliances, client states that don't work the right way... I just think it's near impossible to build a proper diplomacy system on Rome 2, but still hoping this might change. Also... great Review looking forward to more. :)

Governor-General actually refers to a governor over other governors, or a governor in general rather than in specific- this is where "general" comes from as a military comes from: a "captain-general" was a captain over other captains

Hands down, this is best historical mod i ever played...long time Total war fan, owning all games and played almost all of them (never played first Shogun). Only limitation of this mod is original game on which it is built on 😂 playing DEI while listening to some good historical podcasts is my fav relaxing technique 👌

Honestly, really quality video. I clicked the title thinking it was kind of click-baity and then was surpised with some amazing cinematics, information, and splendid mic quality.

This is great news! I cannot wait to do some a campaign on this!

Thank you! I will definitely play this, I hadn't played Rome 2 for a while so this is exciting

Another excellent review Andy 👏 you do an outstanding job!

Great vid m8! Just finished a vanilla Rome 2 campaign and now you made me hungry for more! DEI, here I come!

Amazing mod, since I started playing it I fell in love with Rome 2 and don't really play another TW appart from DEI, they really did an amazing job with this.

Great review. I'll give it a try. Thanks for sharing this!

I really need to vent in this comment section about my DEI Rome campaign and my struggles against Carthage and its African allies. I’ve been playing my Rome campaign for about two months now. It has been both fun and absolutely enraging experience for me and I can’t believe that this campaign will last for another few months for me to finish given the pace of my gameplay. Starting with my conquest of Italy and the war with freaking Epirus which lasted for a while until I finally made took Apollonia and turned those bastards into a client state cause I couldn’t afford to open a second front while fighting Syracuse. Surprisingly Syracuse was defending both against me and Carthage yet still kicked my ass and completely demolished my two legions. I had to spend a few turns to replenish but my population in Magna Gracia was not big enough for me to get enough plebe units. I could have moved to Rome and recruited there but freaking Carthage was moving past Syracuse after defeating them and oh boy it always seems like Carthage has an infinite supply of armies, always coming at me with at least two full stacks and a freaking full stack fleet! I barely defended the border with Sicily and was finally stabilizing a bit for a few turns but this is when shit went south real quick… I feel like I’ve been experiencing the Punic wars for real in this DEI campaign. All my legions were stationed south getting ready to finally take control of Sicily. Since I signed non aggression treaties with my northern neighbors and had pretty solid relations with them I completely forgot about that part of my empire. Took me a good few real life days to stabilize Sicily and get some troops further in Sardinia to get some naval presence going for the first time ever. At this point I have a total of four legions… One in Sardinia and three each in the three cities of Sicily to maintain the defense against Carthage cause they were backstabbing me every time I moved a legion away from any of the Sicilian cities and freaking liberating them which creates a new faction with an entire stack at war with me! Once I built up my one fleet to a full stack I was getting ready to finally invade Carthago and put an end to this misery of endless back and forth warfare against Carthage… THEY FREAKING INVADE FROM GAUL WITH 3 FULL STACKS and each stack with mother fucking elephants!!! How is this even possible??? Like how is this AI doing this??? I almost had a stroke when I saw them and my completely defenseless cities up north. I quickly set all my legions to turn back and go defend Rome… Defense was successful and I crushed their three armies but guess what… Carthage invades Sicily with three full stacks and takes it from me. They also take Sardinia with their freaking navy and because of this my economy just goes to shit and I have mo choice but to delete an entire legion. There is also famine which completely fucks everything up with public unrest all over Italy which causes rebellions and fucking slave uprisings at the same fucking time! Anyways I did reconquer Sicily and Sardinia. I even took Carthage, but only for a few turns cause they came with a few healthy stacks and raped my beaten up legions. I had to retreat back to Sicily. Tried to take Carthage again but they were waiting for me with a few stacks along with a bunch of their allies stacks totaling to about 6-8. I’m freaking stuck at this point and it has been a back and forth war for the past 4-5 weeks. No matter what I do this war is never ending. All my children are dying for some fucked up reason. Good thing is my wife has a good womb so she gets pregnant all the time lol. Numidian cav always rape me man like fuuuuck. Im not a pro in Total War but I dont consider myself bad! I think this campaign I’m playing is just pure hell. Sometimes it feels extremely immersive and hella fun but shiiit I swear one day Ill get a stroke cause of Carthage and its African allies. I deeply hate Carthage now. When I conquer Carthage and defeat its retarded African allies with their Numidian Skirmishers I will pull out my dick and masturbate to celebrate my Triumph 😤

I last played as Saka, fun but the skirmishing is a little sub par, so that detracted a little from the gameplay (IE lots of micro management). Beyond that it's an excellent mod. Cataphracts are eye-wateringly good btw, so much fun to slam them into the flanks of beleaguered infantry surrounded by horse archers. Downright invincible if used properly.

A great Review! Now im gonna download this mod! Congratulations!

thanks for the video, I didnt know that mod before, just downloaded it

bravo! 113k for a DEI video!! let's continue to spread the good words of the best TW Rome 2 DEI !!

Def my favourite tw and mod. The bas odrysians are brilliant. My small land of three cities was up against several armies from Sparta, Athens, Knossos (two full stack armies each faction), Antigonids, Pergamum and Nikomedia. Took a while to break out of it, but managed to beat of nikomedia with a small 7 unit army and a garrison broke several atigniid armies and captured pella. The rest of Greeks began to starve on my lands for several turns and managed to defeat the Spartans armies as they shrank to nothing. Athens retreated and Knossos made peace. Then Rome declared war on me. Haha, brilliant and tense fun. I made peace with both Pergamum and Nikomedia after destroying three of their armies. Getae, scord, and doors are all my good friends and military allies now. Rome has only a few cities left in Eygpt (they had expanded to and taken Alexandria... massive have expanded into Spain and are my solid allies too. Now I am at war with the Celts, particularly the Nervii and their numerous allies.

This is a great mod and I’m glad they’re still adding to it, 10/10

I had fun at the start of my campaign, especially during my early wars with Epirus and walking on eggshells to avoid a war with Carthage at least until I've consolidated Italia and set up buffer states to the north. However, during my invasion of Carthage, Numidia came in with stacks upon stacks of 20 NOBLE SPEARMEN, against my well-thought out and well-balanced armies composed of elite and non-elite units. Same goes to the barbarian factions with their 20 stack of, you guessed it, NOBLE SPEARMEN. So much for "the best mod".

Really liked this video! got me excited

Currently in a DEI campaign as Rome, after 70ish + turns i have taken Sicily, Carthage, the african coast up to Hispania, the entire eastern coast of hispania and the south of France. Egypt and Judea, bordering the former Seleucid empire. Carthage is no more, the Gauls and Germans clamor to trade with me, and all want to ally with me. I refuse them because i don't want to be involved in barbarian squabbles. I have made one mistake, and i made this mistake in the first ten turns. I did not finish off Epirus. Epirus has; Beaten Macedon, Beaten Athens, Beaten Sparta, Taken Anatolia, defeated the seleucids. And is now allying every minor faction that is bordering me. Their navy is equal or greater to mine, and any war will require me to shuffle huge amounts of men around with a lot of reconquest before i can respond. Could i have prevented this? Sure. I saved my game at the crossroad of where i decided to commit to my fight with Carthage first. Loaded a navy with men and rushed Apollonia. The result? If you can land, you will have a army on foreign soil with a 50% of being completely wiped out. If you take Apollonia, their is a good chance the other greekoids will declare war on you. If they do that army is screwed. Since fighting Phalanx armies early on with spear armed Hastati and Principes is pure pain. The navy meanwhile is at risk of being whiped by Carthages superior navies that are still out in force at this time, leaving the army stranded. If you can deal with this you still have two more problems: The Gauls on your northern border that WILL take advantage of weakness at some point, and the fact that you have to pacify a region non stop while at the same time being bogged in a war with a militarily weaker but economically superior enemy (Carthage) Basically its Cold War: Rome II and i love it. And if you are burned out on Vanilla RTW2, try this mod, i have hundreds of hours into it, and i will keep coming back to it. IF CA made a RTW3 exactly like this it would probably be their best work. Apologies for the diatribe, just wanted to let people know dont sleep on this mod.

So, in my current Rome playthrough I triggered the war with Carthage after I took Syracuse. Something about "Roman aggression". Love this mod, great work from a great group.

DEI is amazing.. it makes the game realistic and the campign is actually challenging. I was playing Saba and had to reply 3 times.. because i made mistakes.. took around 200 turns to finish the campign (conquer whole map) and had to play many battles personally

This is a pretty good and basic guide as to how DEI works. Played a ton of DEI in the past, although I get mocked for my saturation settings, I like it that way when I play DEI. DEI could do with more events for Persian/Indian factions IMHO. It's a very good mod and when I play it feels like Europa Barborum for me. Nice shoutout to Toxborg as well! :)

Great video! You earned a new subscriber 👏

I enjoyed every moment of this video. Definitely gonna play it

Getting overwhelmed with CA games right now. The Last Kiss (SFO final update for TWWH2), Shieldwall Overhaul for Thrones of Britannia and now DEI for Rome 2. Jeez. So much to get into!

DEI completes Rome 2, it's what Rome 2 should have been when it launched, it makes a boring end turn simulator in vanilla into engaging campaigns where you have to take an active role in managing every level of your faction. Beyond all of the systems you mentioned in the video, there is also the individual province bonuses and penalties, they are easy to miss if you aren't familiar with the mod but they are essential for getting the most out of settlement building, for example some settlements have bonuses to agriculture, some to industry, and some to trading while they will generally have penalties against other types of income at the same time. By paying attention to this I managed to bring in a gross amount of income and decent food supply early in my Carthage campaign, it adds yet another amazing layer to the campaign. I say all of this as someone who had been very skeptical of DEI before I tried it, as a lot of people told me it was just making the game more difficult and not fun, anyone reading this if you've heard similar things I'd urge you to disregard that and jump into a campaign, try it for yourself it's worth it.

Incredible. thank you

If they could make a super slow motion button (with sound) for the battles I would love it, but for me, the units move far too quickly and battles rapidly become click fests. I need the ability to control the speed of the units with the slider like in Medieval 2 so that I can kick back and enjoy the battles.

I loved my war with Carthage was like 80 years before I completed conquered them.

such a great work

with the newest version, now in battlefield enemy AI will try to flank your formation. on pitch battle, rather than charge your formation head on, enemy cav will try to charge from side or even rearside of your formation. its nice upgrade.

Amazing video. I have more than 1.3k hours in the vanila game and only some small mods. I need to try this mod out!

this looks awesome man. im actually gonna buy the game and play it. I never had a good enough computer before

To this date i haven't found a mod that fixes the horrible combat. You just saw on this video for example how tiny men stopped the elephants rush. Well, there was one mod that has never been updated again that fixed these issues and made combat more like it was on Shogun 2.

DEI has some nice ideas, but a lot of it isn't what i'm looking for personally. "Grand Strategy" is perhaps more applicable to Europa, or similar to steel division 2. What makes Rome 2 great in my opinion is its emphasis on tactics, controlling armies. Grand strategy isn't bad, but keeping DEI as a 'mod' or 'option' to tick would perhaps be best. "Spamming" favorite units isn't necessarily an issue per se, I would be more focused on a more tactical AI. Being limited on units via population while the AI spams stacks of units isn't a good time, nor 'challenging' per se. It is more abrasive than challenging. Some points that I think do add to the game- unit icons, variety of units, building tiles, revamped political system. I think the population management is unnecessary, doable, but unnecessary, and doesn't fit well within the way the AI operates. I've played Rome 2 since its release up until present. I've 2,500+ hours on the game alone. What has kept me in the game is the patches they've already implemented, and the DLC.

I love this mod, I re downloaded Rome 2 after many years of not playing it to try this mod and I love all the details, I’d love to see a mod like this for Attila

This mod really breathes new life into RTW2 and it's my favorite I always come back to it. I know for sure I can never go back to vanilla.

My god, this mod looks fantastic! Great review, i am convinced!!! I am gonna try it out!!!!

I almost forgot about this game. Got it back during release (2013?) it’s been almost an entire decade and maybe I’ll check this mod out

I play DEI for one and a half years now and it is in my oppinion the greatest and most realistic total war experience aviable, i recommend everyone who is interested in the time period or realistic history games to play this mod, it cannot be put into words how much better than vanilla this is and how many changes are made and how immersive it feels

Good video!

Just finished a Macedon Campaign that lasted months and I've jumped back into a Fresh Rome Campaign with a few other mods mainly unit additions. It still amazes me that this player created work of art makes a 2013 strategy game more appealing than a growing number of Modern AAA Games. Really is an amazing piece of work 👏

This makes me thrilled to explore beyond Rome 1 and Medieval 2! I'm having trouble finding the DEI mod/update. I haven't purchased it yet. I'm trying to find the right build for my first gaming PC. One that will give me the best experience for this game specifically(TW games in general). Any help.or advice for finding the DEI and PC builds would be much appreciated. Thanks for the video! I really want a TW experience I can share with a friend online!

Iv been playing rome for a few years. Just found out about DEI last month

Awesome!

Great video. You should have more subscribers 💪

Hi, great vid It got me in the mood to play some historic totalwar Is RTW2-Emperor edition is enough to play it? Or do you need all the DLCs like in WH to truly enjoy it? Thanks

My problem with DEI is the population of my elite will always bug. Ill have more elite class then any other pop and still not recruit those units with the corresponding buildings/techs

I got a new top of the line rig two weeks ago. The night it came in the mail, I plugged it in, set it all up, fired up Steam and installed all of my Total War titles. And, now that I had a PC that could effortlessly handle it, I downloaded DEI after reading and hearing all of the hype on forums, KZfaq, etc. Wow, was I blown away. I enjoyed Rome 2 vanilla, especially after all of the much needed updates. But, this was something else. It was so much more in-depth, complex and difficult, in every aspect. I actually had to restart my campaign and turn the difficulty down to easy, and I blew through VH campaigns on vanilla. It took me just under 7 game years to wrestle control of Italy from Epirus and the Etruscans, beat back the invading tribes in Cisalpina, then assault and sack their settlements to force them to submit to a peace treaty (coming back to finish the job after Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica). I really needed to think and plan out every aspect of settlement development, my invasion of Sicily (army comp based upon available manpower, logistics, etc). It was a serious challenge just crossing into and gaining a solid foothold in Sicily, nevermind taking Syracuse. I’ve become so much more attached to my generals and my armies, and even just crossing into Sicily has felt like I’m embarking upon a massive adventure. TL;DR This mod is the Rome 2 experience I’ve been waiting for. I cannot wait to see what the rest of this campaign (and many others) have in store. I can easily see myself happily playing this for years to come. Seriously, hats off to the DEI team - these guys have made, bar none, the greatest Total War overhaul mod of all time, and I eagerly await whatever future updates they have in the pipeline.

Why did I see this video 3 days before Warhammer 3 comes out?! :')

This is my absolute most favorite mod! Any idea when the new update releases? I'm craving a new campaign but want to wait for the full update release first!

I played Para Bellum and omg its the best for me personally. Really makes it a new game. But I did like DEI a little bit hope they make it better.

With this mod, player utilizes every type of unit more, and make more diverse armies than usually, utilizing all the unit types to the fullest. One thing your vid missed about slaves is that there are slaves, but they work as a bonus to economy while affecting negatively to public order, it's like Dark Elves in TW: Warhammer games. One thing I dislike is that many factions are really hard in the beginning, because garrisons are so huge, which I'd like to be less in the beginning, as you always have 2 stacks against you early game vs your one stack that you have money for. But I'll never go back to vanilla rome after I started this few years ago, It's the definitive Rome 2 experience. One other gripe I have, is that when expanding, armies tend to be a bit samey, as you need to rely on foreign units, and those are same for everyone, so bigger your empire gets, you need to rely on those foreign troops mostly. Also one thing you forgot to mention is that there are factions here that you can't play in basic game without DLCs. Thanks for the info about the beta, got it in that instant and playing Atropatkan now, one of the easiest factions as early game spearmen have bows too. Every eastern faction with spearmen archers are OP. Also one thing about the vassals in DeI, is that they are really useful now, roaming your territory suppressing revolts and attacking enemies properly, without the fear of backstabbing player every time. You want to make vassals only in provinces you aren't going to capture properly, so you don't lose the building slots there. Also you didn't mention banditry feature. One thing with supplies I dislike is that it the baggage train takes out a unit slot and is rarely worth it and that's why I usually use food stores that supply nearby provinces.

Thanks for the vídeo! Bought Yesterday the game, dam its fun! Néed to put This mod, although to play online must be complicated because dont know what mods people are using to join them and practise

Mods will show the love the community has for this absolute game.

I hope they add the mausoleum of Halicarnassus and Stonehenge as wonders monuments and if any battle takes place in the border of Scotland if you have Hadrian’s wall built the battle map will have the wall in the distance probably with a breach that’d be really cool honestly if I get Rome 2 with this mod I might consider getting 8 cavalry armies to I can use Alans tactics to crush my enemy as maybe selucids

Great video, I’m starting another 4”Rome campaign house of Julia lehhhgooooo

Thanks for this review - question though, what would you recommend for the difficulty setting?

I wish the next historical game incorporated DEI's mechanics

DEI paired with reshade is a God given game! one thing I also like about DEI is you have to be careful with every move you make, cause one small mistake will give you problems on the long run.

AMAZING !!!!

What I love of DEI is that it brings depth to the game, which makes the game that much more enjoyable. Especially for someone like me who run his own little "Roleplaying" when playing these games. (Cue my Fall of the Samurai head RP, where only armies with Foreign Advisers get modern equipment until a certain modernization level)

Awesome news… early Christmas Gift 😁

@Andy's Take Please Do a Rome 2 DEI Roman campaign walkthrough. I enjoy your content much better than others, and I want to purchase it. Before I do, I'd like to see a very detailed walk through that is up to date. Please and thank you!

I'm currently playing Rome 2 Total War Emperor Edition with almost all mods now, for the first time ever. It's been two weeks since I started and I'm beginning to understand the mechanics^^. Nevertheless I always heard about DEI and how good it is, so I'm thinking about downloading it and playing it, even though I haven't even played the vanilla game long enough to be experienced. Can you recommend to try it anyway or should I stick with the base game for now?

As an OG RTW player I loved the SPQR mod to death. I’ve been putting off Rome II for years after reading the initial reviews and after the disaster that was Empire TW. I was really pissed at how bad Empire was from the ground up. AI’s broken naval invasions, trickle in reinforcements, battle map not matching the strategic map, not being able to choose my reinforcing armies in a multi stack battle, siege attackers being rope climbing ninjas/no ladders required, and the promised modding tools CA promised but never delivered. I was even more disappointed when CA basically abandoned support for Empire and they released Napoleon while Empire was STILL broken! Anyway thanks for this great video. I look forward to getting back into Total War after a decade’s long hiatus. This mod looks amazing!

Aye I love the Vanilla Rome 2 + 4 turn per year / Traits and Toadies is an excellent play experience. But with the new DEI that’s gonna be much much better too sweet :3

hey one questing i like to play barbarian is this mod good for that aswell? or is the main fokus on the "civil" Nations

Thinking of getting Rome 2, should I play the vanila game first or jump straight into DEI? Never played any TW game btw.

Mind sharing your modlist? Do you use the UI of DeI or something else? Cool Video btw!

Gonna pick this game up again now :)

definite must try❤️

I remember getting Rome 2 years after it had been released and it absolutely bored me. Automatic replenishing took away all the consequences of battles, champions could turn your worst troops into unstoppable killing machines within a matter of turns, artillery was so overpowered, the vast majority of the events available in the politics system were absolutely unnecessary, and not being able to swap or split your troops up into different groups never made any sense to me. After hearing about this mod though, I’ll give it a shot. Definitely sounds like what the vanilla game should’ve been.

I haven't played DEI in a long time but it remains one of my favourite all-time mods for Total War titles. Having said that, I personally was not a big fan of the shape of the Roman shields... Even in imperial legions the DEI Romans weren't using the rectangular scutum that we've come to associate with imperial roman legions

Like the Last Samurai remix background music

Great Video currently playing dei All factions available with Judea and I can say Vanilla doesn't compare.

I have only been playing Rome 2 for about 18 months now but has become bland I have just discovered this mod through your video thanks!! Can’t wait to play

Mods like DEI, age of Justinian 555 AD and medieval 1212 AD are some of the best overall total war mods