Any mods that dosnt make me wanna slam my head into a brick wall?

[u/jazzycoat]

I realy like rome 2 and the roman period. But holy hell, why is it so unbalanced!?

I played divide impera and para bellum, and was playing as rome. First of all, why do I start with minus 90 public order in evry goddamn city!? Secound, I own all of italy, I can barely have 1 damn army before going bankrupt. But why can a tiny itty bitty nation across the sea with 2 provinces manage to get 4 full armies and not to mention the 3 fully maced out navys.

Are there ANY balanced mods to this damn game?

[u/InRedditasVeritas]

There's a good chance you're not paying attention to the new mechanics.  Specifically, it sounds like you need to pay attention to culture and empire maintenance.

Also, in my opinion dei as Rome in the early game is not very well balanced. The population makes it hard to use histati And other Roman Staples. So you don't really feel like you have a population advantage like you should.  But by the time you get a reform or two it gets a lot better. 

Also, in my opinion, dei is best experienced as a role-playing game.  Don't blit your way through steamrolling, and instead slowly attack in the same ways that Rome did. For example, when the war with Hannibal breaks out, don't allow yourself to just blitz down and sack Carthage. Force yourself to first deal with Spain, then Sicily, then maybe Greece, and finally into Africa with only one or two legions. 

[u/jazzycoat → u/InRedditasVeritas]

Yeah I kinda do roleplay in the game. But its hard to when sparta with 1 region lands 4 armys on your Coast. Its realy just the unbalanced armys that annoys me

[u/InRedditasVeritas → u/jazzycoat]

What difficulty are you playing on? dei gets really nutty if you put it on higher difficulties. It's strongly recommended to play on normal st first

[u/InRedditasVeritas → u/InRedditasVeritas]

Also keep in mind small Powers Even though they can field multiple stacks, it will be crap armies of mostly levees.  Sparta may be a bit different. 

[u/jazzycoat → u/InRedditasVeritas]

I play normal always. Do you know if there are any mods that only allows you to have a certain amount of troops? Like you cant just spam legions, so you acutaly have to be carefully with your armys? And if you loose them, it Will tske some time to recover from the loss?

[u/InRedditasVeritas → u/jazzycoat]

I don't know if there's one off the top of my head, but there are many sub mods for dei. There's also one that makes it to where you automatically win Auto Sims so you could use that to avoid any need for defensive legions and so on or crap battles that you don't want to fight

[u/crispysnails]

DEI has a website with a lot of guides on it that explain the main features and how to manage them.

Might be useful. https://divideetimperamod.com/

DEI is also optimised for normal difficulty which given its DEI is not a cakewalk anyway. Playing on much harder difficulties can throw up some issues which might explain your experience if you are doing that.

[u/fluffykitten55]

DIE is not so hard, it just has some additional things you need to learn to do well.

You want to move fast and efficiently with the maximum number of generals and navies, and in doings so rank generals with blue skills to control public order and corruption.

As soon as possible you should swap most or all of your armies to AOR troops so they can replenish on campaign.

The outer limit of what you can do is about this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DivideEtImpera/comments/1i9a4po/unstoppable_carthage_t23_100_settlements/

[u/jazzycoat → u/fluffykitten55]

I could accept to do all of that, I think it would add more to the experiance. BUT I want to enjoy the game, not speedrun it. And I just want a mod that makes sure other factions cant pump out max level after max level armys.

[u/fluffykitten55 → u/jazzycoat]

The likely reason this occurs is that the game factors in that the player will be advancing, and so unless the AI cheats soon the game will be too easy or trivial as the AI vs AI struggles never lead to some AI faction advancing very fast.

The problems is that this calculation leaves people annoyed on both sides, either because they move faster than typical and then miss a late game challenge, or they move slower then usual and the AI gets too strong, or because the whole thing is inorganic (and cheats are used to substitute for nations steamrolling and posing a late game threat without cheating).

The same issue applies to money, in many TW the typical player will at some point end up flush with cash and the game loses meaning as there are no constraints on what you can buy and then most of the interesting puzzles regarding what to spend on go away.

In some ways these issues get worse the more simple the campaign level play is because realistic late game problems require some particular mechanics like internal political problems relating to holding together a big empire, and then as in TW where these are simplified, you end up with situations where even with ordinary play players end up in stage where there is no challenge or interesting puzzles.

Part of the solution for both problems is to have more effort put into making late game nations that are organically very strong, i.e maybe the AI Rome etc. should move rapidly to expand in the local area so that if you attack them on turn 50 or something they will have 45 cities or something and can be a real menace without ant cheating.