With the new season of Game of Thrones I feel like checking out one of the two mods. Which one?

Title is pretty much all you need to know. I've already done some of the legwork myself; troop tree references in ACOK 4.1 seem to currently be broken and AWOIAF's much advertised 'kill lords' feature is too penalized to even be worth a damn really. I don't care how the developers of the mod behave so long as they aren't breaking the law so unless their attitudes directly affect the quality of their work I'd prefer not to hear a reason to not choose a mod as 'X mod maker is a dick' or some such.

I've done some testing but I can't decide for myself; ACOK has the better models but things drastically changing between versions bother me (the adding of equipment penalties to stats, removal of certain quests in favor of randomized events that take ages) on the flip side while I appreciate the idea behind AWOIAF the writing in it feels way too much like bad fanfiction.

I mean seriously all of your companions are at least semi-important canon characters? Bronn, Brienne, Barristan Selmy. On top of that the troop tree balancing is just awful with the Wildlings in AWOIAF being laughably weak and the entirety of Essos feels like an after thought.

Braavos doesn't even have a ranged option in their troop trees!

I can't make up my mind and there seems to be a lot of good and bad with these two so input would be appreciated.

Submitted July 31, 2017 at 02:20PM by comraderichard3 http://ift.tt/2tSfSbF