This was a brilliant list! You're doing such a service to both TW players AND mod creators who put their blood sweat and tears into these insane mods. We stan the Terminator, onwards to 10k!
Years ago when I started playing the total war franchise I noticed how much it improved my knowledge of historical world geography, and in some cases, military world history. I found it so helpful that I encouraged my young kids play it on a limited basis. I'm interested to hear if anyone else has noticed the same benefits from this franchise?
Fr. Single handedly inspired me to educate myself.. started w THOR podcast and I realized I could learn anything on the internet nit just by scholars on the subject but people w a passion for the knowledge they are sharing.
I got into history since i began playing Rome 1 total war when i was 10 years old. Now i am a history nerd thanks to this game, and my little brother was playing those cringy games for kids like " among us" and "roblox" and other mainstream useless stuff. I made him command a legion and now he is playing only the total wars and asking about history and generals.
Rome II, like Atilla and Britannia, I love the battles and loath the campaign map, tech and build trees. They are complicated and fantastically frustrating. I need a mod that guts that aspect.
2:24 I won't you cant look at battle because its over as soon as the forces clash unless you specially get mods to give all units better morale and hp and make them fight for a bit
I find DEI totally impenetrable. I love the ideas but managing seems impossible. From turn 1 on easy, I need EVERY building slot producing food or I starve _and_ I need EVERY building slot producing happiness or it falls constantly (and yes, my armies are patrolling, not garrisoning). I've given up multiple campaigns after about 5 turns.
@@andriybulenok8524 I'll have a look next time. That still seems strange to me, forcing you to endure 50 turns of rubbish gameplay while you wait for technologies to unlock before you can start playing the real game.
@@Robert399 I just keep going and crush the eventual and unescapable revolts. Revolts WILL happen. Culture changes slowly, instability takes 10 turns to dissapear. When you see it coming make a new army and spam local levies, crushing the revolt as it spawns. Tier 3 barracks are very easy to research for most factions, taking less than 20 turns, usually, which is, at least for me, quite fast, so you will be playing the "real game" with the full roster by turn 30-35. Some factions don't even need tier 3 barracks too soon which means you can focus on whatever is most useful for you right now (sparta only gets t3 units after thureos reforms, and even those are extremely shitty, I only ever upgraded barracks for the recruitment xp bonus). DeI is great and there are many aspects, especially in the faction rosters/reforms that you can only discover by playing the faction (or extensively researching the unit database) It will make you realize how unique that faction actually is. I hope you figure it out and have as much fun as I do. Good luck 👍 Edit: Oh and I forgot! Negative food in Dei isn't a death sentence like in vanilla. Your soldiers will only desert when you have negative gold. Replenishing will be impossible, though. Besides using the spy you get in the beginning to steal food usually is enough, before you get dedicated food production provinces
Tried to get back into Atilla but the lack of 4k support made it unplayable. SO here I am, back in Rome 2, watching your vid. Appreciate the content. Your Atilla vid was useful as heck in making it gorgeous. Just went through a bunch of things to make it pretty, only to realize I could not fix the 4K ui scaling issue xD
Hey Terminator. A couple of weeks ago i have watched your video about the New World mod. First, I thought it was about the real new world I mean America......It would be awsome if we can get game or mods about these forgotten civilizations like Maya, Inca, Aztec. I know Rome 2 maps is not moddable and lack of history sources but after the Rise of Mordor map editor i hope many great unique mods will be available. Give some ideas to modders about this.
You could try the Americas campaign in Medieval 2 Total War Kingdoms Expansion. You get a number of American factions like the Aztecs, Mayans, and Apaches, plus the Spanish conquistadors with Hernan Cortez. There are other minor factions too, including emergent expeditions from France and England. Most the of the native factions are almost the same in terms of unit roster though. Other than the Apaches, who can steal guns and horses from the Europeans and use them against them!
Will you also do review on other total war , such as for empire, napoleon, shogun 2 (my personal favorite is shogun, because even much older the engine for unit movement, landscape, campaign map and battlefield, siege, features are feel quite balanced)
Nice video as always! Did you ever try the "Hegemony - Greco-Persian Wars"-mod for WoS? It was killer back in the day, but I can't find it on the Steam workshop anymore. Keep it up mate!
Drink every day Terminator releases a video featuring or mentioning 1100AD. Die of liver failure :)) Keep up the great work. I discovered some great mods because of you, sir.
Great list brother! I'm just getting back in to TW after many years. Last game I played believe it or not was the original Shogun. I just bought Rome 2 and Attila on sale and both are just so much fun and I'm experimenting with mods. I wish there was a good overhaul mod for Rome 2 that allowed me to play at the Persian Safavids and Turkish Ottomans, around the 16th-19th centuries. If anyone knows of any such mods let me know please. Peace
After being bored with vanilla but having hard struggles playing dei (because somehow it's overwhelming and hard), are there mods that give like new units or looks but don't make the game harder?
Just downloaded DeI for the first time today, but my main menu doesn't look the same as yours. It still says Divide et Impera in the center, but I'm not sure why it doesn't seem to be the same.
I have dozens of hours into Medieval 1100 as the Eastern Roman Empire, and my empire still hasn’t reached the size of Justinian’s realm let alone Trajan’s.
Got to admit, I tried medieval 1100AD and was sorely disappointed. Same problem that Thrones of Britannia had; everybody looks the same. Sacrificing good looks for historical accuracy. There’s a reason Medieval 2 is hailed as one of the best, if not the best, Total War.
Do you think we are ever gonna get any gameplay overhaul mods for empire, I’m dying to do stuff like coastal bombardments, naval landings, completely revamped sieges and urban warfare, I wish there was a mod that had these features
Hi Bro just watched your video and its great, i appreciate it, bro i am a total war fan and playing it for 4 years, but i have simple total war Rome II , but now its boring for me because i think the AI is not making elite units and its very easy to win a battle , today k was searching to solve this problem and encountered your video :) plz tell me which mod has more intelligent AI which makes elite units and shows skill in battles
Really playing total wars with mods has actually had me enjoying this Covid mess with a ton of old gems that have some amazing mods people don’t feature or show much anymore
@@TheTerminatorGaming radious Is one of them and all clans playable mod is good I'm urakami clan realm divide occured and now everyone against me One clan keep inciting revolts
@@TheTerminatorGaming I also recommend using increased food income mods and there a unit pack called armoured units pack you get units like katana samurai by better armoured and basically better morale and attack etc
TERMINATORR !! tell to the moders that we need a historical accurate mod , a big mod like these in your video, starting at 500 BC. I want Xerxes invading in mainland Greece while the Phoenicians attack Sikelia. It should probably start with the Ionic revolt ! Thank you in advance !!
I've noticed that you don't seem to have the shimmering or AA problems that many of us have with Rome 2, is there anything you did to improve the graphics, or the AA at least? Thanks.
@@TheTerminatorGaming thanks for the reply, I watched that video but when in reshade I noticed that SMAA doesn't recognize the Rome 2 depth buffer, or at the least the depth buffer is messed up...therefore smaa seems to have little effect...do you do anything through nvidiia inspector or nvidia control panel that is proven to work? thanks again.
But I mainly play Attila at moment ancient empires one of best mods I played but fire and swords great mod I did submod to increase unit rosters for it
I ll be honest ... iam happy and kinda disipointed in the same time ... Lets start with the second one ... i kinda expected that you will make some work and you try to find another 5 mods that are not that famous or wiewed and would deserve same or similar attention like those mods ... instead you just took mods that you made video about them already (and they are not that old ) ... like really detailed videos .... only mod that really deserves be on this list is the Constatnine:Rise of Christianty... its old mod but good one ... and its been a while i seen any video about this mod. On the other hand i am really happy you make these videos ( not this one tho xD ) your voice is calm and good for listening ... you seem that you really like total war games and mods so i belive this gives you some "right" to talk about these mods and games cuz u have some knowledge and skill.Anyhow i wish you much more wiwers and keep posting us about updates of mods .... :) :)
I'll be spotlighting as many mods as I can mate so this is just as you've said a compilation of mods I've covered so far that I think at the moment are some of the best. More videos like this one will come with other mods in the future :) Thanks for your kind words!
Yeah, all of this is cool and all, but we are still waiting for a mod that change the core gameplay on the campaign maps. Let's be honest, Rome 2 was the TW game that marked the negative turn TCA took in terms of gameplay. The last TW peaked in mediocrity and boredom. I hoped that with time, the community would bring good mods to relieve this but it I was wrong to hope. Maybe the core gameplay of TW games can't be moded, idk.
Hands down the best mod is DEI. There literally is no competition. All other mods are complete trash in comparison. I have never played a mod that was better than the best game in every single way like DEI has done for me. It's so immersive and difficult and fun. Like you have to control population and try to minimize casualties because your population can't handle the losses as much. Ugh I love DEI.
My only complaint is that the modders of DEI are making it harder and harder because people are demanding it to be harder because they easily cheese the system and use other mods to help, which I find bullshit of the other players of the mod
Hope you enjoyed the video guys, subscribe for more! & check out the mods below!
► TheTerminator Discord - discord.gg/eHVBpAC6U2
► New World Steam Page - steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2111912358
► Medieval 1100 AD Steam Page - steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2280460874
► Divide Et Impera Steam Page - steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=294694062
► Hellenika Steam Page - steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2384194357
► Constantine: Rise of Christianity Steam Page - steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=299700707
Will these mods work with the Macbook Air M1?
Could you tell me the best mods for each part of rtw 2?
This was a brilliant list! You're doing such a service to both TW players AND mod creators who put their blood sweat and tears into these insane mods. We stan the Terminator, onwards to 10k!
Thanks bud :) And for sure man they deserve all the support they can get ❤️❤️ Can you imagine the Total Wars without mods? 😬
@@TheTerminatorGaming I certainly wouldn't have 2100 hours in Rome 2, that's for sure 🤣
.....blood?? o.O please explain xD
Years ago when I started playing the total war franchise I noticed how much it improved my knowledge of historical world geography, and in some cases, military world history. I found it so helpful that I encouraged my young kids play it on a limited basis. I'm interested to hear if anyone else has noticed the same benefits from this franchise?
Fr. Single handedly inspired me to educate myself.. started w THOR podcast and I realized I could learn anything on the internet nit just by scholars on the subject but people w a passion for the knowledge they are sharing.
100% TW series has taught me so much of history and has reinforced a deep passion for it.
100% agree with this
My uncle bought me this game when I was a kid from a games store, and it helped create a passion for me; a passion for history
I got into history since i began playing Rome 1 total war when i was 10 years old. Now i am a history nerd thanks to this game, and my little brother was playing those cringy games for kids like " among us" and "roblox" and other mainstream useless stuff. I made him command a legion and now he is playing only the total wars and asking about history and generals.
Well done Termi.
Had never tried Constantine. I'll be trying that one next.
Keep up the content. Really appreciate these reviews.
Thank you! And definitely mate its a good one :)
@@TheTerminatorGaming can you show unit roaster
Impressive you narrowed it down to 5, since there are many more high quality ones. Eras of Rome, Cyrus etc
I plan on making more mod compilations and spotlighting so this is just the beginning 😉
great video man
I'd love to see you cover some mods for Napoleon or Empire if you get the time!
Rome II, like Atilla and Britannia, I love the battles and loath the campaign map, tech and build trees. They are complicated and fantastically frustrating. I need a mod that guts that aspect.
Would love to see this for Three Kingdoms, Shogun 2, Troy, Napoleon, Empire, etc.
Awesome! Thx for doing the work for me :)
I was literly gonna comment on a previous video too see if you could do a comparison and you did anyway. Great work 👍
Thanks mate :) yeah lots of people were asking me so I went ahead and did it haha
2:24 I won't you cant look at battle because its over as soon as the forces clash unless you specially get mods to give all units better morale and hp and make them fight for a bit
I find DEI totally impenetrable. I love the ideas but managing seems impossible. From turn 1 on easy, I need EVERY building slot producing food or I starve _and_ I need EVERY building slot producing happiness or it falls constantly (and yes, my armies are patrolling, not garrisoning). I've given up multiple campaigns after about 5 turns.
Pay attention to culture and technologies. Those are usually the main factors for discontent management
Plenty of techs give you cultural conversion, sanitation or public order which makes you less starined on building slots
@@andriybulenok8524 I'll have a look next time. That still seems strange to me, forcing you to endure 50 turns of rubbish gameplay while you wait for technologies to unlock before you can start playing the real game.
@@Robert399 I just keep going and crush the eventual and unescapable revolts. Revolts WILL happen. Culture changes slowly, instability takes 10 turns to dissapear. When you see it coming make a new army and spam local levies, crushing the revolt as it spawns.
Tier 3 barracks are very easy to research for most factions, taking less than 20 turns, usually, which is, at least for me, quite fast, so you will be playing the "real game" with the full roster by turn 30-35.
Some factions don't even need tier 3 barracks too soon which means you can focus on whatever is most useful for you right now (sparta only gets t3 units after thureos reforms, and even those are extremely shitty, I only ever upgraded barracks for the recruitment xp bonus).
DeI is great and there are many aspects, especially in the faction rosters/reforms that you can only discover by playing the faction (or extensively researching the unit database)
It will make you realize how unique that faction actually is. I hope you figure it out and have as much fun as I do. Good luck 👍
Edit: Oh and I forgot! Negative food in Dei isn't a death sentence like in vanilla. Your soldiers will only desert when you have negative gold. Replenishing will be impossible, though. Besides using the spy you get in the beginning to steal food usually is enough, before you get dedicated food production provinces
Tried to get back into Atilla but the lack of 4k support made it unplayable. SO here I am, back in Rome 2, watching your vid. Appreciate the content. Your Atilla vid was useful as heck in making it gorgeous. Just went through a bunch of things to make it pretty, only to realize I could not fix the 4K ui scaling issue xD
Oh..I love this TW videos machine called Terminator! :D
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all these mods are definitely in my top 5
I love your videos brother, keep em coming
Thank you! :)
The only mod i need for R2 is something that prevents armies from moving across half Europe in one turn
Hey Terminator. A couple of weeks ago i have watched your video about the New World mod. First, I thought it was about the real new world I mean America......It would be awsome if we can get game or mods about these forgotten civilizations like Maya, Inca, Aztec. I know Rome 2 maps is not moddable and lack of history sources but after the Rise of Mordor map editor i hope many great unique mods will be available. Give some ideas to modders about this.
You could try the Americas campaign in Medieval 2 Total War Kingdoms Expansion. You get a number of American factions like the Aztecs, Mayans, and Apaches, plus the Spanish conquistadors with Hernan Cortez. There are other minor factions too, including emergent expeditions from France and England. Most the of the native factions are almost the same in terms of unit roster though. Other than the Apaches, who can steal guns and horses from the Europeans and use them against them!
Will you also do review on other total war , such as for empire, napoleon, shogun 2 (my personal favorite is shogun, because even much older the engine for unit movement, landscape, campaign map and battlefield, siege, features are feel quite balanced)
Yes I will ❤️
Yes please with Empire and Napoleon as still brilliant games 👍
Underrated channel and video
Thank you sir 🙏
Nice video as always! Did you ever try the "Hegemony - Greco-Persian Wars"-mod for WoS? It was killer back in the day, but I can't find it on the Steam workshop anymore. Keep it up mate!
Drink every day Terminator releases a video featuring or mentioning 1100AD.
Die of liver failure
:))
Keep up the great work. I discovered some great mods because of you, sir.
Hahaha ❤️❤️
I dont have any expansion, will any of these mods work for me?
Great list brother! I'm just getting back in to TW after many years. Last game I played believe it or not was the original Shogun. I just bought Rome 2 and Attila on sale and both are just so much fun and I'm experimenting with mods. I wish there was a good overhaul mod for Rome 2 that allowed me to play at the Persian Safavids and Turkish Ottomans, around the 16th-19th centuries. If anyone knows of any such mods let me know please. Peace
Awesome content man should do one for atilla
I'm playing Parra Belum as Rome with 24 turn per year submod to catch that DEI. I still prefer DEI but damn that mod is good and great to play.
After being bored with vanilla but having hard struggles playing dei (because somehow it's overwhelming and hard), are there mods that give like new units or looks but don't make the game harder?
Give Para Bellum I try mate, it's Vanilla+ basically
Just downloaded DeI for the first time today, but my main menu doesn't look the same as yours. It still says Divide et Impera in the center, but I'm not sure why it doesn't seem to be the same.
There are different menu screens you can flick through using the arrows in the bottom right ❤️🙏
@@TheTerminatorGaming OH bless up I was so confused because everyone uses the same (better looking) one lmfao. Thank you 🙏🙏
Is there possible ti add roman faction in medival mode of rome 2 or in athens mode
would love to hear both sides of each mod ie pros and cons. like devide et impera is great but INCREDIBLY slow
DEI is slow, but I keep a book or tablet on hand for between turns
I have dozens of hours into Medieval 1100 as the Eastern Roman Empire, and my empire still hasn’t reached the size of Justinian’s realm let alone Trajan’s.
Got to admit, I tried medieval 1100AD and was sorely disappointed. Same problem that Thrones of Britannia had; everybody looks the same. Sacrificing good looks for historical accuracy. There’s a reason Medieval 2 is hailed as one of the best, if not the best, Total War.
Does anyone know why I cant play as sparta or the other Greeks in the campaign for DEI?
Thank you :D Even tho I knew most of them, still nice video!
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Do you think we are ever gonna get any gameplay overhaul mods for empire, I’m dying to do stuff like coastal bombardments, naval landings, completely revamped sieges and urban warfare, I wish there was a mod that had these features
my only wish,some one would make qin dynasty mod for three kingdom.
Hi Bro just watched your video and its great, i appreciate it, bro i am a total war fan and playing it for 4 years, but i have simple total war Rome II , but now its boring for me because i think the AI is not making elite units and its very easy to win a battle , today k was searching to solve this problem and encountered your video :) plz tell me which mod has more intelligent AI which makes elite units and shows skill in battles
your vid helped a lot thx
Why not para bellum?
Really playing total wars with mods has actually had me enjoying this Covid mess with a ton of old gems that have some amazing mods people don’t feature or show much anymore
Was trying to download helenika on steam. It keeps crashing is there another place u got it?
What would you say best mods for shogun 2?
I will have a think and maybe make a video ;)
@@TheTerminatorGaming radious Is one of them and all clans playable mod is good I'm urakami clan realm divide occured and now everyone against me
One clan keep inciting revolts
@@TheTerminatorGaming I also recommend using increased food income mods and there a unit pack called armoured units pack you get units like katana samurai by better armoured and basically better morale and attack etc
Great thanks.
In witch mod is the kindom of Judäa or Israel possible to play?
TERMINATORR !! tell to the moders that we need a historical accurate mod , a big mod like these in your video, starting at 500 BC. I want Xerxes invading in mainland Greece while the Phoenicians attack Sikelia. It should probably start with the Ionic revolt ! Thank you in advance !!
My favourite here pare medieval 1100 ad since Dei is too laggy for me😅
War of the gods mod???? How did you miss this!!
I've noticed that you don't seem to have the shimmering or AA problems that many of us have with Rome 2, is there anything you did to improve the graphics, or the AA at least? Thanks.
Yes I have lots of tips and tricks for that :)
My Rome 2 Graphics Guide! - ruclips.net/video/CetfOLnzmw4/видео.html
@@TheTerminatorGaming thanks for the reply, I watched that video but when in reshade I noticed that SMAA doesn't recognize the Rome 2 depth buffer, or at the least the depth buffer is messed up...therefore smaa seems to have little effect...do you do anything through nvidiia inspector or nvidia control panel that is proven to work? thanks again.
Constantine is fun... Made by the guy who made dei
Thanks!
Question. Can all these mods coincide and run together?
Not really no
Hey Termi, are ya planning to make some med2 vids soon
Yep!
Thank god for this didn't want to pay to play as Greek states
No sighn of of total war rome 3 or napolian 3 or empire total war 3😢...
I miss two mods in that list;
Para Bellum
WOTG
That is some DLC level mods.
I have 500+ hours, and I've only heard of 1 of these. HOW were these hidden???
I played some.of these mods all quite good not played rise of Christianity one for long time battles would take long time however real bloodbaths
But I mainly play Attila at moment ancient empires one of best mods I played but fire and swords great mod I did submod to increase unit rosters for it
excelente bravísimo
I ll be honest ... iam happy and kinda disipointed in the same time ... Lets start with the second one ... i kinda expected that you will make some work and you try to find another 5 mods that are not that famous or wiewed and would deserve same or similar attention like those mods ... instead you just took mods that you made video about them already (and they are not that old ) ... like really detailed videos .... only mod that really deserves be on this list is the Constatnine:Rise of Christianty... its old mod but good one ... and its been a while i seen any video about this mod.
On the other hand i am really happy you make these videos ( not this one tho xD ) your voice is calm and good for listening ... you seem that you really like total war games and mods so i belive this gives you some "right" to talk about these mods and games cuz u have some knowledge and skill.Anyhow i wish you much more wiwers and keep posting us about updates of mods .... :) :)
I'll be spotlighting as many mods as I can mate so this is just as you've said a compilation of mods I've covered so far that I think at the moment are some of the best. More videos like this one will come with other mods in the future :) Thanks for your kind words!
damn i've watch many of your vids yet not subscribe.
subs now !
Thank you! 🙏
but i cant even get thru the proluge i dont want a more challengine gameplay
Yeah, all of this is cool and all, but we are still waiting for a mod that change the core gameplay on the campaign maps. Let's be honest, Rome 2 was the TW game that marked the negative turn TCA took in terms of gameplay. The last TW peaked in mediocrity and boredom. I hoped that with time, the community would bring good mods to relieve this but it I was wrong to hope. Maybe the core gameplay of TW games can't be moded, idk.
DEI is Glorious Mod i play it all time only that one mod and the fcker is Hard xD so Hard
Hahh it is! Check out my guide videos ma man :)
I can't stand the UI, map and unit cards in Rome 2. Such an absolute step back and it is so clunky to navigate and interpret
CAESAR
ALL HAIL!
WARS OF THE GODS-ANCIENT WARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hey your voice is too bassy. Cut some low end off your mic
PUR
AWWWWWW
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Para Bellum
On my list to spotlight next!
Hands down the best mod is DEI. There literally is no competition. All other mods are complete trash in comparison. I have never played a mod that was better than the best game in every single way like DEI has done for me. It's so immersive and difficult and fun. Like you have to control population and try to minimize casualties because your population can't handle the losses as much. Ugh I love DEI.
Does the ai use the same mechanics yet or no?
@@magejustinp The AI does not use the population mechanic. I love the mod but thats my one complaint.
Slow and boring. Enemy troops take forever to rout even when completely surrounded. Life’s too short.
Dei is just TW 2 on hardcore mode
Definitely not for everyone ..
My only complaint is that the modders of DEI are making it harder and harder because people are demanding it to be harder because they easily cheese the system and use other mods to help, which I find bullshit of the other players of the mod
=D
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@@TheTerminatorGaming =)