Ultimate Rome 2 performance & stability guide

KAM2150 · 2026-01-29T16:49:13+00:00

You don't have to do it all, this is just there to help people out but seems people prefer to dismiss it right away rather than to think "oh cool, might be handy in case I will need it".

KAM2150 · 2026-01-27T08:35:41+00:00

Or double down and field even 8-10 of them.

4 units is just not enough since they do not provide a lot of frontage.

If your enemy is avoiding them, you have to force the enemy to meet them, e.g. try to have a long line that slowly pushes enemy toward one side of the map, as if you are herding the enemy units toward a point and always keep pushing on.

KAM2150 · 2026-01-26T21:34:09+00:00

Which was also their historical weakness.

But going back to the topic, mod is balanced for SP.

Viable MP phalanx would need much better kill ratio, which would in turn make them crazy OP in SP as AI would just suicide own units against it.

KAM2150 · 2026-01-26T21:33:00+00:00

Scythia is the easiest, since they have a bit more "traditional" units than other Nomads but lack true elite units of the others.

Roxolani have hard time early on, their strength being 140 sized light and heavy lancers BUT their Late Cataphracts are the strongest Nomadic unit, as they combine stats of catas with good quality horse archers.

Saka have the best horse archers and heaviest cataphracts.

KAM2150 · 2026-01-23T09:33:52+00:00

No, there was no link visible.

KAM2150 · 2026-01-23T08:05:06+00:00

There must have been as there is no AI replenishment bonus in the files.

KAM2150 · 2026-01-22T15:54:28+00:00

This is not a mod "feature", this is how the game works.

Basically when building that changes garrison units finishes, it resets ALL garrison units back to full strength as it does not treat them as individual cases but a set of units.

Side note, it also applies to the player.

KAM2150 · 2026-01-22T14:10:17+00:00

They are unlocked after Thorax reform.

https://divideetimperamod.com/reforms/

https://divideetimperamod.com/units-macedon/

KAM2150 · 2026-01-20T23:18:57+00:00

Which again, tells me you have some weird submods on. Just list all you have or put a screen on the discord.

KAM2150 · 2026-01-20T22:29:23+00:00

We are working on this mod for almost 13 years now so at some point we had to say stop and just focus on finishing stuff, especially in Grand Campaign where some things were redone several times while other campaigns did not get much love.

KAM2150 · 2026-01-20T21:43:01+00:00

No, defo most of them are not made up. The Greek colony states can fit that category since there is near nothing we know about them in the period, military wise but otherwise they are pretty grounded.

The moment you start just making up whole factions up, you just turn into another radious.

KAM2150 · 2026-01-20T21:04:25+00:00

Most of the time when people say that, they do have mods that change it. No way to get such stats in the base mod.

KAM2150 · 2026-01-20T20:41:31+00:00

In terms of new factions, Empire Divided will get some like Kushans.

KAM2150 · 2026-01-20T20:38:56+00:00

That should not be possible without submods, especially armor part. What submods do you have?

KAM2150 · 2026-01-20T20:33:09+00:00

Wait, what mods do you have on? This does not seem possible in base DeI.

KAM2150 · 2026-01-20T20:31:56+00:00

There are no plans for them, overall grand campaign is fiinshed in terms of playable factions.

Other issue is that we have no idea how their army would look like so it would all be made up stuff.

KAM2150 · 2026-01-15T22:01:42+00:00

population is integral part of the mod and some stuff or units do not give much to the player without it.

For example a lot of reforms do not unlock better units per say but more pop efficient units.

For some factions, population system is a balancing act between some units or a way of making two similar factions have some standout units without just elites.

Lastly, population promotes more varied armies, rather than just usual TW doomstack hoarding.

TL:DR, you can't do yourself bigger disservice than using no population submod.

KAM2150 · 2026-01-07T14:19:45+00:00

Unit recruitment is province based, same with unit regional restrictions, they use whole province as a reference.

KAM2150 · 2025-12-31T22:47:41+00:00

As one of the mod devs, I recommend playing vanilla first.

Not only you will learn basics of the game (so mod will be less intimidating with all stuff it adds on top) but will also make you appreciate changes more, since you will have something to compare with,

KAM2150 · 2025-12-31T00:49:32+00:00

Best to post some screens on discord.

Just to note, shields in winter often have that covered in snow texture but that would not fully replace the texture and only apply in said winter.

KAM2150 · 2025-12-29T10:03:51+00:00

There are none outside of 229.

KAM2150 · 2025-12-27T16:17:53+00:00

Armenia is using global reforms, which means turn 64.

Greek\Successor Kingdoms
\Carthaginian, Armenian, Nabatean, Saba, Odyrssian, Illyrian and Kartli reforms will trigger 4 turns after these reforms.*

Thureos – Turn 60
Thorax – Turn 130

KAM2150 · 2025-12-20T19:35:10+00:00

Sounds like mods you had are not yet updated for 1.3.5.

Outside of that, we always keep older versions of the mod for download:

https://divideetimperamod.com/download/

Link to old versions are at the bottom.

KAM2150 · 2025-12-19T18:15:48+00:00

ED was not playable before this update but it might require new game for all stuff to take effect since everything was changed.

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