campaign TOO easy?

**caravel** · 09-26-2008, 23:38

As well as the above you can also:

1) Decrease the incomes of trade goods and slightly boost farm income.

2) Armour and weapon upgrades can also be removed. These give the player the advantage and imbalance the game as the AI is poor at building them in the right provinces.

3) Remove the valour bonus regions. The AI tends to push all of it's florins into trying to tech up to the valour bonus unit, even if it's not available for until the next era or so! It will cripple itself financially trying to do this, ignoring farming, mining and trading upgrades in the province.

4) Remove Grand Inquisitors and restrict Inquisitors to the Papacy and/or rebels. These agents are simply too powerful and if you really wanted to abuse them you could wipe out all of your rivals with ease. They also do a lot of damage as the AI uses them indiscriminately - even on it's own high ranking generals.

5) Remove Border forts and let the espionage begin. With border forts gone, AI spies will start to increase in numbers. They will survive longer and gain more experience, this will make them a bigger danger.

**drone** · 09-26-2008, 23:53

I said "simple things".

**caravel** · 09-26-2008, 23:58

Originally Posted by drone

I said "simple things".

You did, didn't you...?

**Martok** · 09-27-2008, 01:09

Hmm. All this makes me want to reinstall the Pocket Mod again.... (I hadn't done so yet since reformatting my hard drive.)

EDIT: ....Or not. Apparently the Org's download section still isn't working.

**caravel** · 09-27-2008, 01:33

Originally Posted by Martok

Hmm. All this makes me want to reinstall the Pocket Mod again.... (I hadn't done so yet since reformatting my hard drive.)

That's great, let me know when you're finished debugging...

**Martok** · 09-27-2008, 02:07

Heh.

Well maybe I *would* if I could actually get my hands on the bloody thing.

I put in a heads-up to Tosa earlier this afternoon about the Org's download section not working, but I have a feeling he's not been on yet today.

**caravel** · 09-27-2008, 22:53

Unfortunately my hosting is down. I can't see it going back up either. Next month I intend to move ISP so I may get some more hosting sorted out by then.

**Roark** · 09-29-2008, 03:10

Yes, vanilla MTW is too easy. You've got access to all of your faction's best troops regardless of the time period, and the computer player has to struggle with poor starting buildings and, therefore, poor army composition.

Get VI and then get modded with XL, then come back and report when you've completed the Armenian campaign...

**scowie** · 10-04-2008, 14:11

What I've done to make my current game a bit more challenging is to let the AI do all the training and building for me so that I have to fight with whatever the AI gives me and I cant just spam out the best troops. It makes for much more interesting campain, imo.