New to EB

[Sabre]

As the title suggests I'm new to Europa Barbarorum. I played RTR 6.0 Gold campaigns and multiplayer about 3 years ago and then for one reason or another drifted away from the Total War scene. I dabbled a bit with Medieval and then Empire and now I've returned to my first love so to speak

Anyway enough of the waffle, I just wondered what the regulars would recommend for the difficulty settings to keep both the battles and campaign interesting. I prefer to play most battles rather than auto resolve. Also what do you think would be the most interesting faction to play.

Any other tips or advice for an interesting EB venture are appreciated

[anubis88]

Welcome to EB!

EB is balanced to play on VH campaing/M battles, but some people prefer to lower the campaign difficulty...

As for which faction to start, i would suggest Rome, just to get you in the mood for this mod. All factions are amaizing though, you can't miss no matter which you choose

[Mediolanicus]

Battles Medium, else the balance is gone with the insane boni the AI gets on H or VH.

Of course, when you play with elite fullstacks things get too easy, so play with a realistic army.


Campaign depends. VH and AI will try to murder you. H and it'll be aggresive. M and you can enjoy a slow role playing campaign.
I like role playing EB more than blitzing my way through it on VH, but that's just a personal choice.

Don't forget to read the FAQ and the other important stickies!
That's the most important advice for now.

[paleologos]

Hello and welcome.
For the first every advice sugests top difficulty for campaign and medium for battles.
For the second I don't know I have only tried Koinon Hellenon so far.
They are interestin enough.
The Seleukids have grater unit variety but starting with a huge yet underdeveloped empirre can be tedious.
Read the faction descriptions on the faction selection screen.
I hope I helped.

[Hotseat_User]

hello and welcome back! :hello:

well the recommended settings are VH/M or H/M - if you like to have a challenge in the battles then try H or VH battle-difficulty. In EB the difference in Campaign-AI lies mostly in the scripted support-money for the AI-factions and their bias against you. On VH you will never have a breath with a faction bordering you - and because they get 10k extra money via script, they will spam-elite-stack you.

If you like to play slow, I recommend to expand only slow and take H/M settings with the additional ForceDiplomacy minimod (to be foudable in the Submod-section). Then you can either roleplay or play as historically as you want without being forced to fight a fullstack each and every round.

Ahh and if you're new: Activate the script. without, this mod isn't EB Now to the factions: I think you should take your own one because you'll hear thousends of proposals. Personally, I enjoyed Arverni/westernGreek/Pontus-Campaigns the most so far.

Have fun and keep us updated to the progress. Ohh and don't wonder about -30k dept in the first 10 rounds. just build your economy and abadon cavallery - you have your FM's for the job unless you've choosen KH or Saba or Sweboz.

[stratigos vasilios]

Also what do you think would be the most interesting faction to play.:

Play Pontus on VH/VH... I'm sure you'll do better than what I did.

[lionhard]

Id play the romans first you can get a good look at what the AI movement is like and what faction you might prefere to play, their strengths/weaknesses and above all unit types :)

[Fluvius Camillus]

Hi and welcome to EB.

Good faction is of course more a personal thing, but SPQR and Makedonia are good starters to get a feel of the game, the units and everything else, while the campaigns are not the hardest.

What type of faction do you like?

~Fluvius

[Sabre]

Wow so many responses so quickly. Thank you for the warm welcome and advice on the settings.

I realise the faction choice will be a personal thing. I'm sort of drawn to the Casse being from the UK and also the Romans probably because I live so near to Hadrians Wall in the North of England, lots of Roman forts etc in the region. That said I'll probably go for something completely different when I've read the faction descriptions in a bit more detail.

Once again thanks for the advice, appreciate it.

[vartan]

Welcome to EB and more importantly to the community. There are a myriad of great contributors to be found here. Response times? phenomenal. Attitude? Lovely (most of the time). Hope you have a fun time playing EB. I play anywhere from M/M to VH/M depending on how intense a campaign I desire (syntax: campaign difficulty / battle diff).