anybody play hard battles?

[Ardri]

Hmmm, I'm playing RWT.exe so I haven't had the opportunity to play on Alex.exe and I haven't gotten too far into my Romani campaign I have on VH/M because I restarted after installing the Mini-mod pack for 1.2, however, I have changed to money script (thanks to the help from a completely inoffensive name) in order to keep the computer factions at around 300,000 denarii. I'm already seeing stacks of Aedui with 5-6 naked fanatics in them on medium and many stacks of troops in Greece. VH/H may be a bit too much with so many computer armies running around, but I suppose I can always revert to my VH/M if that is the case.

I'm playing with the houserules of 8 units of Roman frontline troops, 2 units of Elite troops, 5 units of support/light infantry, and then the other 5 as either skirmishers (at the beginning of a campaign for a city, they are my travelling garrison) who will be replaced by 5 mercenary/expansion region troops once I take the city I am targetting. Should be an interesting game on VH/H.

[rootje]

I did happen to find a big difference between RWT and alex exe, mainly in the aggressiveness of the ai on the campaign map and their spamming of stacks. Also their battle ai is alot better but they still strugle in sieges =( (but so do i, ctds kill my siege efforts :P).

I'm currently not using a moneyscript myself, is it easy to enable/tweak during a campaign? Most of the factions are on 500.000 mnai or around that I think but some start to quickly lose funds due to my legoins endlessly raping their stacks and my assaults on critical mining cities..

O and, I wish you goodluck on the harsh task of bringing the Romans glory on VH/H! The first time an enemy actually totally slaughters your hastati line and gets your principes real scared is the moment you realise your difficulty settings and houserules are starting to get in shape ;)

[Ardri]

It is very easy to tweak during the campaign, literally takes about 5 minutes after I had the process explained to me. Just see the post by a completely inoffensive name in this thread https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=111983 to see how it is done. Basically the nonplayer factions stay around 300,000 permanently.

[Sûlherokhh]

Sooner or later it will become too easy, no matter the setting. So self imposed limitations are the real challenge. I always use the 'General Camera'. Any units placed outside my surroundings are placed on 'AI-control' until i can see and direct them again. Now try to fight the Sweboz in the dense germanic woods! :)