well at the beging i have problems instaling EB2 to but after i figured out how stupid installer is i reinstaler it and it worked quite well after that
EB2 has a huge map, but most of setlements is owned by rebels
with do not really looks for me very good
at the begining i wanted to start with an small samnite, etruscan or syracuse tribe, but seems those setlemets were taked by rome or the rebels
most of factions seems are bankrupted in the begining and when i speak with my diplomat to other factions i see that they are bancrupted
~50% of factions you start are under bankrupting step
well i could understand that for the player it makes some dificulty to find the way how to get out from bancrupcy, but for AI it is seriossly bad thing cause they doing no real succesfull actions at all.
It is serioslly incompleeted mod and a lot of things has to be done till you can start feeling that you actually can normally play it
so far i tryed rome for a short time and pontus for a bit longer(~80 turns), but the problem is that all my Pontus generals no matter how much victorys i win they all has 0 comanding stars or even less
Pontus is one of the hardest start when you start and you dont want to fight other stronger factions, but if you start like i did attacking seulucids from the 2-3 turn then after ~10 turns economic starts to reach 0 isntead of - balance
troops has some nice shields, but armors and helmets could be improved. Any way map icons looks quite nice.
Playing pontus for longer time gets bored due the fact you cant get any better troops, than you actually have at the start
I dont know or EB2 can actually improve anything in RaW project, perhaps just some shield patterns. Cause SND started to feel that his textures are lower quality than EB2 team has