anybody play hard battles?

[Mediolanicus]

Actually i believe M/M is a perfectly good difficulty to play on. This is because historically Nations didn't go to war every ten seconds, because it wasn't feasible. The AI goes nuts on any harder levels of play. As for the battles, it doesn't makes the AI rout uber fast. Honestly ive had PLENTY of close calls on M/M campaigns before

QFT!

Of course you have to have well balanced armies with 12 units or so to have fun. I you go to war with elite fullstacks as many here do.. that kills the fun...

[Atraphoenix]

my humble observation
on RTW.exe VH/M easy you are the new Alexander!
VH/H still you can defeat the enemy but more realistic just aim your tactics well.

on alex. vh/m my favourite, though I hate to fight endless battles, best fits to me.
vh/h on alex, men there should be more funny games to suicide, even pandadapoi can resist your FMs and kills your king ,

vh/vh,
if you say fighting with your elites with heavy losses, no comment, but to sacrifice even a spartan against a medium phalanx, it is not funny at all
I wish the game have no difficulty settings, just a celever ai and you, I can assure than first MTW and STW had better ais than RTW. I had many battles with MTW that the enemy crushed my army with double envelopments, what RTW does; cavalry charges phalanxes from front!

my favourite is VH/M on alex VH/H on RTW.
I still could not managed to evaluate BI cos it has more different and more comlicated responses than others some very clever some very stupid

[NeoSpartan]

my humble observation
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vh/vh,
if you say fighting with your elites with heavy losses, no comment, but to sacrifice even a spartan against a medium phalanx, it is not funny at all

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WHAT! nah bro... vh/vh you gotta do your best, roll out all elite armies that you can at least have a fighting chance!

I remember taking on the Ptolemoi all elite armies with my KH all elites back in .74 (btw back then the cavarly "charge" did not work) and .8x in VH/VH. That was crazy! If the number of troops were even I was in deep s***. Even if I outnumbered them, I was in for one hell of a fight.