recommended difficulty

**Russell123** · 04-24-2010, 11:43

Hi i am new to this games so give me some guide lines.

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**Master Magic Mage** · 04-24-2010, 12:20

It depends. How good would you say you are at these games?

**Peasant Phill** · 04-24-2010, 18:03

Even if you're new to these game, I would start at medium overall. On medium it's a level playing ground. Don't shy away because you think it will be to difficult. You'll learn much quicker when you lose now and then, as long as you can see where you went wrong.

**A Nerd** · 04-24-2010, 18:27

I play at M/M. For as others have said, diplomacy is better (especially those important trade agreements), the rate at which the AI attacks me seems managable with armie, navies, finances, etc., and I don't like bonuses given to the AI. Also, as before mentioned, I don't want the battlefield AI to have any bonuses either! All in all, I've had several entertaining campaings playing vanilla at the M/M difficulty level.

**Ratwar** · 04-25-2010, 06:50

I'd start at Medium/Medium and then progress up to Hard/Hard in Prestige Mode. For some reason prestige mode has much more sane AI at Hard than any of the other modes.

**patrick076** · 05-06-2010, 12:27

i am new to this game the initial preset difficulty level is too much for me how can i reduce it

**Peasant Phill** · 05-06-2010, 20:01

When you start a new campaign you should see 2 sliders that you can change the difficulty with.
A word of advice though, read a beginners' guide and try it again on normal difficulty or at least change as soon as you're comfortable with what you're doing. It just isn't fun if there isn't a challenge.