What campaign difficulty do you players recommend?

**QuintusSertorius** · 05-02-2008, 19:12

I thought it was only on Very Hard that the AI factions got bonus money?

**DeathEmperor** · 05-03-2008, 08:12

I play on hard mainly because it offers much more of a challenge against ai factions (thanks quite a bit to bi.exe as well) who expand at a steady and fairly realistic pace, and they field pretty balanced armies.

Also I like playing as factions in the East (Seleukeia, Ptolemaioi, Pahlava etc.) so the constant warfare and momentary reprieves fits into my historical roleplaying quite well.

**Tiberius Nero** · 05-03-2008, 09:19

Originally Posted by QuintusSertorius

I thought it was only on Very Hard that the AI factions got bonus money?

I used to think so too, but it turns out that it does get some bonus on H as well, probaby half the amount of what it get on VH, so it is not that noticeable.

**Irishmafia2020** · 05-06-2008, 18:37

I play hard on BI exe and I find I get good results. I also use force diplomacy to make the a.i. accept my gifts, and occaisionly to agree to a treaty if I am on the verge of destroying them. Overall this gives good results, and I use F/D less than you would expect so that the a.i. still retains its independence... VH is just masochistic and a bit unrealistic in my opinion...

**Ibrahim** · 05-06-2008, 18:45

I'm hardcore-ish: VH/M (so I get violent wars, but the battles are balanced as EB intended.). mind you i now play on BI exe as well.

**Centurio Nixalsverdrus** · 05-06-2008, 22:59

Really cool that so many contributed! Thank you all and I think Hard will be my choice for campaign, as I think it might well give me the best overall gameplay experience.

**Chaotix** · 07-26-2008, 15:22

I found out that playing on M/M difficulty on EB has allowed me to jump to VH/VH on unmodded RTW and M2TW- M/M without a mod is just too easy for me now, because EB ups the difficulty factor considerably.