Faction difficulty ratings seem way off to me

I got excommunicated for defending my own province. The enemy did not control the castle or anything like that. Never happened before https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/no...nquisitive.gif .

I think the difficulty settings are mostly right, well besides HRE that is. The developers did not hold in mind the blitz when they set the ratings for factions.

Turkey is hard, try not to ransom the Egyptian sultan on turn one and don't blitz Egypt or Byzantine. Believe me it will be a nightmare then.

Same applies to the Spanish. Of course it is easy to blitz Cordoba and abuse the mercs to finish the Almos.

There are more examples like the Polish with their blitz and ransom the Hungarian king.

The reason is that people have played MTW so much that they have learned to exploit the game crazy. You know everything about your enemy, the provinces, the units, top it with blitz and merc abuse and the AI has no chance. Remember your first game, it must have been a lot more fun back then https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/no...icons/wink.gif

Ar7 is definitely right. The difficulty ratings totally change once you read the guides on the org

If you don't blitz, then the factory ratings are closer to the truth.


afrit


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I never blitz because I want the game to be challenging. I also usually stick to historical parameters, like for example if I were the Almohads I wouldn't colonise Sweden and turn it into an Islamic state.

It's great when you first play the game and see the Golden Horde You didn't know THAT was going to happen in 1230 AD. But once you've experienced it you can ready your forces in preparation.