whats the hardest faction to been now that 1.1 come out

[king hannibal]

whats the hardest faction to been now that 1.1 come out

I've notice that bactria has now only one faction so is the game start for them alot harder or more or else the same

dose anyone player house rules on veryhard veryhard

I am think about doing a campaign on veryhard veryhard with one of the hardest faction and a few house rule like historical army as far as possible and a few other if anyones got any good ones

has anyone manage to get far on veryhard veryhard yet or dose it seem inpossible

[Parallel Pain]

Too bad I'm stuck on 1.0

At least Saka has the worst economy and I beat it on VH/VH. In 1.0 it's "neigh-impossible" the other two are Pontos and Haystadan(sp?). They have better economy but will have to fight Ptolemy early so Iunno.

I'd like to hear too.

[Tyrfingr]

Pontos' economy is pretty easy to turn around, just disband your initial cavalry (FM is all you need), then conquer Sinope and Trapz-something-something. By all means, avoid Bythnia and Galatia as it will piss off AS and attack you within a couple of turns.

[Olaf The Great]

Going to have to say Hayasdan

[king hannibal]

although they seem to be hard at the beginning you've got horse achers so aren't they easyer on very hard than say brition or germany that don't have access to good cavalry at least to me they seem to look like the hardest factions to be not for there money side which end up huge with any faction but for there man power and how hard there units are

has anyone done a very hard campaign as german or brition

[Sarkiss]

if you want hardest campaign on VH/VH i'd say Pontus and Armenia are the way to go. those horse archers you mentioned wont be available for at least 5 first years unless you get pricie mercenaries. not to mention they will be much less effective on VH battle. which kind of defeats the purpose. why would you want such unbalanced game when units are almost unbreakable and low end AI skirmishers become equals to you heavy infantry?