re: #584 Obdicut

What isn’t it? Heh.

Basically, his main strength is in tweaking the various unit reaction settings, as well as their weapons/strength etc., to make the AI behave better. For empire, for example, he increased the range of musketry but decreased effective range— you can fire at enemies farther away, but your shot has less effect. This is at once realistic, and makes for more exciting battles because there’s an actual point to conserving your fire until you see the whites of their eyes.

In addition, he’s such a nice guy and so easy to work with that other modders work with him to get their mods included with his. So his ultimate commander mod for Empire contains tons and tons of other little detail mods that make things so much better.

In the end, DathMod battles are a lot more challenging, and a lot more fun, than in vanilla.

Cool. So far the only mods I’ve downloaded are for Rome: Total War. Roma Surrectum was ok, I tried it but couldn’t get into it. Europa Barbararoum is AMAZING. They put so much time and effort into it to get the languages down, the factions in I love playing it. Invasio Barbararoum:Flagellum Dei for the Barbarian Invasion expansion to R:TW is awesome, too. It adds so much depth without being as large and complicated as EB is.