You start as (or optionally, Persia, Babylon, or the Greek city-states). You are 22 years old. Your father, Philip, is dead. The Illyrians are sniffing at your northern border, Thebes is in open revolt, and Darius III is sitting on the throne of the East with hundreds of thousands of men. What Makes This Mod Different? If you’ve played Rome 2 vanilla, you know the pacing can be slow. You spend 50 turns building farms before you fight a major battle. Alexander the Great flips the script.
While CA eventually gave us Total War: Pharaoh , they never officially revisited Alexander’s era in the Rome 2 engine. Enter the modding community. Specifically, enter (often found as Hegemony 361 or similar overhaul mods like Ancient Empires with the Alexander submod). alexander the great total war rome 2
When Creative Assembly released Total War: Rome 2 , we were all thrilled to re-fight the Punic Wars and crush barbarians in Gaul. But deep down, many of us had the same itch: the desire to take a young, fiery Macedonian king and smash the Achaemenid Persian Empire into the dust. You start as (or optionally, Persia, Babylon, or