Most realistic difficulty level?

**LordSardar** · 12-23-2008, 00:01

Hi everyone,

New user here, finally getting a chance to play MTW2. Used to play a lot of RTW before

Question for you history buffs - based on your expereince with the game/knowledge of history, in this period etc - which difficulty setting do you find is the most realistic or bring the most realism to the game? I obviously want something challenging, but not something that is unreasonable/not realistic (if you noticed, in some other games...AI's hardest difficulty levels is just AI "cheating").

Please let me know!

Thanks

**Veho Nex** · 12-23-2008, 01:51

Hi, welcome to the forum.

Well none really... But Vh is a good challenge. If you want realism I recomend you check out some of the mods.

**TevashSzat** · 12-23-2008, 03:00

Well, I personally found the AI to be too easy and its not that bad even on VH/VH. It really isn't that hard at all as long as you are half decent at commanding battles on the battle map

**Monsieur Alphonse** · 12-23-2008, 13:29

Battles: very hard. You fight on equal terms with the AI.

Campaign: medium or hard. On very hard diplomacy isn't working and the AI faction's attacks like madmen weakening their own position. Once you have beaten them back it becomes very easy. You will notice that at the time when you have late units the AI still has town militia and so on. On medium or hard the AI is more cautious and upgrades its castles and cities better which gives it a better chance to train better armies.

**Yoyoma1910** · 12-24-2008, 21:47

I agree whole heartedly with Monsieur Alphonse.

VH/M or H.

It depends if I want to try and collect Vassals (M) or annihilate the opponents who cross me (H).

**Thermal** · 12-24-2008, 23:29

battles hard campaign normal, however if u add moneys to the EDB (i.e extra tax and stuff) i would put campiagn on hard, as computer spend wildly on hard, but if they have the finance, they won't go bankupt with it

**cassu** · 03-19-2009, 15:58

Most realistic gaming experience i have is from a seljuk campagin in Broken Crescent, there was a bug or something with the AI that caused everyone to make alliances with everyone. Because everyone was (nearly) everyones friend so not many wars started and factions grew rich and strong. The only wars were Jerusalem against ERE and Ayuub, ERE against turks. So when the mongol invasion came (about 1200 something) the ERE had all of anatolia and a equal army with the mongols

. After the turks were dealt with th ERE attacked the abbasid caliphate but i attacked too on the next turn and got cheaply all but one province from them because there army was being wasted on Romans

. I have the seljuk lands and conquerd omani with a tresury of about 400k and a equal army with the ERE. What makes this game so realistic is that there are no easy pray anymore because: A) They have cash to raise a next mongol army in a heartbeat B) If they have no cash they have about 20 full stacks running around. The game was M/M 1.05 patch with extra AI patches.

**Alp Arlsan** · 03-20-2009, 15:22

M/M would be the most realistic difficulty level as neither you nor the AI have any aid. Unfortunately this is too easy for most TWers so I would suggest that you bump it up to H/H for a challenge without ridiculous bonuses.