There are quite a lot of different "A Better X" mods going around these days, so it's no surprise that people have been asking me for a sample modlist. Luckily, this is actually a lot easier than it seems at first, provided the following are given:

1 - You have War of the Chosen. It's required for my current breed of mods.

2 - You are willing to accept the Better series of mods as your centerpiece. ABA, ABB and (in a smaller capacity) ABC are mods that are impactful and change a lot of stuff. By running the complete package, you will limit your options with regards to other mods, but in exchange you get almost a complete overhaul out of it (work in progress :P). Leave your 20 extra classes and Grimys Loot mod out of this, they will either conflict or not fit in with my mods, especially ABB.

The mods in this list are the core you can build the rest of your list around, with the usual mix of QoL, dressup and voice mods.

A few words about each of them:

**The modular overhaul**
A Better ADVENT: Overhauls the enemies and their AI.
A Better Barracks: Overhauls the player classes and their items.
A Better Campaign: Changes to the strategy layer and mission/pod generation.

**Essential prerequisites**
Missing Packages Fix + Resource: WotC forces modders to include some of the vanilla assets into their mods to work correctly. This fix includes many of these assets, so other modders don't each have to include them. It's a prerequisite for many mods, you should always have this subscribed.
X2WOTCCommunityHighlander: This fixes many bugs with the base game and provides hooks for modders to do things they wouldn't be able to do just with the base game. This is going to be a requirement for some features in A Better Barracks.
Mod Config Menu: Many mods allow easy configuration when you have this installed. Squad Select is the most important one and on its own enough reason to have MCM installed permanently.

**Strongly recommended QoL mods**
Robojumper's Squad Select: Does two important things. One, it makes the squad select screen so much better. You can see all the things your soldiers carry and change them fast. You can display perks, stats and all kinds of good stuff. Two, you can use it to increase your own squad size, if you want to use A Better Campaign PLUS instead of the regular one.
Additional Icons: Has one very important feature that other healthbar mods don't have: Nametags. Seeing the names of enemies displayed right there is a huuuuge deal when you have A Better ADVENT throw dozens of new enemies at you.
Yet Another F1: Not as important as Additional Icons in my opinion, but this is a very useful mod to check the abilities of unknown enemy variants and the like.


Finally, a note on A Better Campaign PLUS:

If you want to play with bigger squad and pod sizes, that's something you can do. Just use ABC PLUS instead of the regular ABC. This will increase pod sizes. You can increase squad sizes with Squad Select, i suggest +2 soldiers. I want to mention that i consider the vanilla podsizes the 'default' 'official' way of playing A Better Everything, but it shouldn't be a big deal.