Silver Rusher
09-02-2004, 20:23
This post is about approximate faction difficulty. Please note that this is only for playable factions. If you disagree, please don't use
caps or flames, but discuss nicely. Remember, this is all very likely to be wrong, as it is based in information, campaign screenshots (from
this I know map positions, size of armies, types of units, etc.)
It works like this. There are five different difficulty factors:
Campaign Difficulty (the difficulty of the faction in the campaign, including campaign battles)
Battle Difficulty (the difficulty of battles for this faction)
Beginner effectiveness (how effective this faction will probably be for beginners, based on how well rounded they are)
Inter effectiveness (ditto)
Expert effectiveness (ditto)
The House of Julii (roman faction, overall difficulty: EASY)
Campaign Difficulty: Easy
Battle Difficulty: Fairly Easy
Beginner effectiveness: Good
Inter effectiveness: So-So
Expert effect: Not good
House of Scipii (roman faction, overall difficulty: MODERATE)
Campaign difficulty: Moderate
Battle Difficulty: Fairly Easy
Beginner effectiveness: Fairly Good
Inter effectiveness: So-So
Expert effect: Fairly Good
House of Brutii (roman faction, overall difficulty: FAIRLY EASY)
Campaign Difficulty: Moderate
Battle Difficulty: Fairly easy
Beginner effectiveness: Good
Inter effectiveness: Good
Expert effect: So-So
Egypt (African faction, overall difficulty: Fairly Hard
Campaign Difficulty: Moderate
Battle Difficulty: Hard
Beginner effectiveness: Not Good
Inter effectiveness: Moderate
Expert effect: Fairly good
The Seleucid Empire (Eastern faction, overall difficulty: Easy)
Campaign Difficulty: Moderate
Battle Difficulty: Easy
Begginer effectiveness: Fairly good
Inter effectiveness: Good
Expert effectiveness: Fairly good
Carthage (African faction, overall difficulty: Fairly Hard)
Campaign Difficulty: Hard
Battle Difficulty: Fairly easy
Beginner Effectiveness: Bad
Inter Effectiveness: Not good
Expert effectiveness: Fairly good
Parthia (Eastern faction, overall difficulty: Hard)
Campaign Difficulty: Fairly Hard
Battle Difficulty: Hard
Beginner Effectiveness: Terribble
Inter Effectiveness: Moderate
Expert effectiveness: Brilliant
Gaul (Barbarian Faction, overall difficulty: Hard)
Campaign Difficulty: Very Hard
Battle Difficulty: Fairly Hard
Beginner Effectiveness: Bad
Inter Effectiveness: Not Good
Expert effectiveness: Fairly Good
Germania (Barbarian faction, overall difficulty: Moderate)
Campaign Difficulty: Moderate
Battle Difficulty: Fairly Hard
Beginner Effectiveness: Not Good
Inter Effectiveness: Moderate
Expert effectiveness: Fairly good
Britannia (Barbarian faction, overall difficulty: Moderate)
Campaign Difficulty: Fairly Easy
Battle Difficulty: Moderate
Beginner Effectiveness: So-So
Inter Effectiveness: So-So
Expert effectiveness: Not bad
The Greek Cities (Eastern faction, overall difficulty: Fairly Easy
Campaign Difficulty: Fairly Easy
Battle Difficulty: Fairly Easy
Beginner Effectiveness: Quite good
Inter Effectiveness: Moderate
Expert effectiveness: So-So
caps or flames, but discuss nicely. Remember, this is all very likely to be wrong, as it is based in information, campaign screenshots (from
this I know map positions, size of armies, types of units, etc.)
It works like this. There are five different difficulty factors:
Campaign Difficulty (the difficulty of the faction in the campaign, including campaign battles)
Battle Difficulty (the difficulty of battles for this faction)
Beginner effectiveness (how effective this faction will probably be for beginners, based on how well rounded they are)
Inter effectiveness (ditto)
Expert effectiveness (ditto)
The House of Julii (roman faction, overall difficulty: EASY)
Campaign Difficulty: Easy
Battle Difficulty: Fairly Easy
Beginner effectiveness: Good
Inter effectiveness: So-So
Expert effect: Not good
House of Scipii (roman faction, overall difficulty: MODERATE)
Campaign difficulty: Moderate
Battle Difficulty: Fairly Easy
Beginner effectiveness: Fairly Good
Inter effectiveness: So-So
Expert effect: Fairly Good
House of Brutii (roman faction, overall difficulty: FAIRLY EASY)
Campaign Difficulty: Moderate
Battle Difficulty: Fairly easy
Beginner effectiveness: Good
Inter effectiveness: Good
Expert effect: So-So
Egypt (African faction, overall difficulty: Fairly Hard
Campaign Difficulty: Moderate
Battle Difficulty: Hard
Beginner effectiveness: Not Good
Inter effectiveness: Moderate
Expert effect: Fairly good
The Seleucid Empire (Eastern faction, overall difficulty: Easy)
Campaign Difficulty: Moderate
Battle Difficulty: Easy
Begginer effectiveness: Fairly good
Inter effectiveness: Good
Expert effectiveness: Fairly good
Carthage (African faction, overall difficulty: Fairly Hard)
Campaign Difficulty: Hard
Battle Difficulty: Fairly easy
Beginner Effectiveness: Bad
Inter Effectiveness: Not good
Expert effectiveness: Fairly good
Parthia (Eastern faction, overall difficulty: Hard)
Campaign Difficulty: Fairly Hard
Battle Difficulty: Hard
Beginner Effectiveness: Terribble
Inter Effectiveness: Moderate
Expert effectiveness: Brilliant
Gaul (Barbarian Faction, overall difficulty: Hard)
Campaign Difficulty: Very Hard
Battle Difficulty: Fairly Hard
Beginner Effectiveness: Bad
Inter Effectiveness: Not Good
Expert effectiveness: Fairly Good
Germania (Barbarian faction, overall difficulty: Moderate)
Campaign Difficulty: Moderate
Battle Difficulty: Fairly Hard
Beginner Effectiveness: Not Good
Inter Effectiveness: Moderate
Expert effectiveness: Fairly good
Britannia (Barbarian faction, overall difficulty: Moderate)
Campaign Difficulty: Fairly Easy
Battle Difficulty: Moderate
Beginner Effectiveness: So-So
Inter Effectiveness: So-So
Expert effectiveness: Not bad
The Greek Cities (Eastern faction, overall difficulty: Fairly Easy
Campaign Difficulty: Fairly Easy
Battle Difficulty: Fairly Easy
Beginner Effectiveness: Quite good
Inter Effectiveness: Moderate
Expert effectiveness: So-So