DovaChiief said:
This one's on the tin. What is the best/most fun/most enjoyable game modification you know of or have played. For me it's Europa Barbarorum, the best, most historically accurate total conversion mod for Rome: Total War.
With you on modding
Rome, although I prefer
Roma Surrectum II, mainly because it's optimised for use with
Barbarian Invasion and
Alexander (more unit types, bigger map etc), whereas I don't remember EB being meant to take advantage of the revised AI and whatnot.
I've just spent an evening playing it in fact, preparing several key regions for the Marian reforms, which I expect to be able to initiate in a few more turns. So far, I'm at around 590 A.U.C and Macedon, the Boii Confederation, Scythia, Pontus, and Sparta have been destroyed (only Macedon and the Boii by my own hand), and the Free Greek Cities no longer have a presence on mainland Europe. I'm now in control of everything from Massilia in the west to Odessa in the east. The frontiers are relatively peaceful at the moment apart from the odd bandit raids. Pergamon had a crack at taking Odessa from me but got swiftly spanked and came crawling for a ceasefire on the next turn.
Now I'm concentrating on building up my cities (oh, RSII building tree, how I love you!) so that I'm in a position to start replacing my Polybian cohorts with Legionaries as soon after reform as possible. Then Carthage shall burn...
Also worth mentioning (totally unrelated) for anyone who still has
Silent Hunter III is the
Grey Wolves mod. Basically a complete rewrite of the game. Adds a fuckton of units, sorts out the historical timeline, etc etc.
Silent Hunter III: The Grey Wolves is still the best in the series. Sure, 4 & 5 might have looked prettier, but in terms of gameplay, immersion and accuracy, they don't come close.