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[drone]

You have reminded me of a question;

On Hard & Expert difficulties, does the AI get huge unit stat bonuses and become insanely aggressive as in RTW, or is it simply new tactics and more intelligence which is added to the opposition?
I have only ever played on Normal, because RTW ruined my trust in higher difficulties.

As Durango says, on Expert the AI gets a +4 morale bonus, as well as better tactics. In addition, on Hard, the AI gets a +15% bonus to combat stats (attack and defense), and on Expert they get a +30% bonus.

[Haccapelite]

Currently I haven't got a campaing under work since all my campaing saves disappeared after a parent-related mishap on the computer, but I had a very interesting campaing going as the French before that.

I started on early, playing on hard difficulty (my first proper attempt on that difficulty) and I have to say that it was one of the most fun campaings I have had. The first decade I spent gathering enough troops to launch a full-scale assault on the English.

The next 30 years were pretty much continuous fighting, after wiping out the English from the mainland and destroying their faction under rather suspicious circumstances (the English king bravely lead his enormous army of 100 spearmen against my three times larger army.) the Germans decided to attack me.

After crushing the main body of their army and conquering a couple of regions from them (not too many, I was hoping they would still provide some competition later.) I started to plan on a series of crusades on the holy land and maybe even giving a try on the Crak des Chevaliers.

I managed to grab a foothold in the holy lands where I held Palestine and Tripoli, and had some very very (very very) annoying battles against the Turkish. Blast those horse archers! While starting to develop Palestine into a troop production center I started immediately to upgrade Tripoli towards Krac des Chevaliers.

Meanwhile back on the home front, the king of Spain had got some delusions of grandeur and decided to attack me. I beat his armies back four years in a row, each assault lead by the king himself. After that he had gained enough morale-dropping vices for his entire royal family. I then decided to attack Spain and conquered Aragon and Navarre.

Unfortunately this is where the history of France is cut short by the unfortunate disappearance of the French Chronicles. Following events can only be guessed by the future generations: Was the Krac des Chevaliers finished in time? Did the Spanish king manage to gain even more vices on the battle fields against the French? Did king Pierre the Pretty find his lost court-wig before the grand ball? I sure would like to think that all this and even more could have been achieved in the future of the campaing.

Ah the memories, I think I'll start a new campaing again, maybe even today, since I found a copy of Medieval from the depths of my hard-disc with the Tyberius add-on. Maybe I'll give the Hungarians a try, or possibly the Scots.

[PershsNhpios]

Grand, 'akkapelites!

I have never successfully led a crusade, but I hope to change that soon enough.
I am very much enjoying this unit roster in MedMod - it isn't exactly varied - but it means that going to war with certain cultures has certain advantages, and going to war with similar cultures means one hell of a hard fight.

With great difficulty I have been trying to start a campaign worthy of an AAR.
Oh but I have fear! Fear that I shall be wiped out soon..

For my faction has defeated two of the neighbouring states, but is now left with 500 troops to guard a very long four-province border with a jilted ally, who has 2400 men and is capable of successfully marching into war at any moment.

I have three turns to wait before I shall have enough money to recruit more troops!

Oh the calamity! I would not start an AAR that ends in defeat so soon..
But I have a very good idea that should see me through such embarrassment - so I think this particular faction will be my choice - I will start a write-up.

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This campaign is Normal, but if you all think the bonus to unit stats is worth seeing the extra tactics, then I will use Hard on the next campaign.

[Faremisch]

I have played MTW for years now, although on a rather low intensity. I´ve played Vanilla, BKB, XL, Hellenic and NTW. I really appreciate these mods. The last weeks I´ve started playing Redux and MedMod. I honestly haven´t had time to try them before, and I am surprised with the great feel of these two mods, especially the homeland-refrm of medmod adds to the fun.

I play as HRE in both campaigns. In Medmod I´ve played some 30 years into an early/expert campaign. I managed quite well. Allied with the English and beat back simultaneous attacks from France, Denmark and Poland. I managed to grab three provinces from France and Poland and hold on to what I started with (Don´t like giving up provinces). Hungary attacked and took Austria, I took it back. I was building up and managing quite ok, piling up Archers, Knechts and german spears. My economy slowly grew as I started trading with the English, easily fending of the Danish longboats coming from the north.

Then all those Italian states decided to attack me simultaneously. I held my ground but took some beating. Stretched to the limit I got excommunicated. Not exactly sure what I did to upset the pope, but upset him I did. The English broke our Alliance and marched into Lorraine, the Swedish decided to land a massive contingent of Vikings into my northern territories. The italians crossed the alps into two of my provinces. In four of my provinces I have large stacks from four attacking factions. The Polish, Hungarians and danish are all hostile and have piled up stacks right outside my borders to grab whats left of me once I hit the end-button. I have no reserves. Only the french have enough problems with rebellions and the English to stay away.

Rough years to come for the german states.