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    Default Re: recommended difficulty

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

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    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.
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    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.
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    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.

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

    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.
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    Default Re: recommended difficulty

    I am playing a Swedish campaign H/H.

    It seems a good balance, although I have no allies at all....

    VH/VH makes it unfair against you.

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    After playing for 45 years I have realized that diplomacy is horribly weighted against the player even on H campaign difficulty. I have read that this is the case in quite a few threads posted on this forum. The battle difficulty is not as bad though, so if you want a fair challenge... H/M
    Last edited by Alexander XXI; 06-11-2010 at 07:38.

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