Stayed up till 5am playing this and I'm having a blast. I'm a Darthmod veteran, but I've never had as much fun with that mod as I had with this. It feels like Rome 2 has been made remade in the Rome 1 engine, minus all the actual disappointment of Rome 2.
I'm currently playing Bactria, swooping into India and capturing those three cities as my first conquest. My horse archer spam army that works so well in vanilla Rome is performing pathetically bad against the multi-elephant armies of India. Seems like pikes and javelins do well against them, but I'm stubborn.
Do you have a recommended difficulty? I'm playing on H/H and have no complaints so far.