AI is never challenging

[Tore]

thanks guys for all the reply's and for all the cool ideas.

You're playing one of the easiest factions (solid units which get even better, rich economy right in your heartland), don't care about historicity or roleplaying to self-limit, and you're complaining it's too easy?

hehe...yeah...I removed half my population before start and boosted Aedui and Makedonia with lots of units and 4000000,- start cash to make it harder. Aedui have over 20 regions in 255bc :D

There is no mod which can augment the AI. Playing on VH campaign difficulty is the only means of making them more aggressive. Have you tried the Win Conditions mini-mod? That might cause them to come for you if you tweak it right.

yes I have...and it seem good. I have tweaked it so many factions have a lot of regions to hold, some up to 100 regions. Looking forward to see the results.

Changing factions should do the trick :).

Maybe not a bad idea after all, but I really love to play the Romans. The history of Rome and the principles they implemented in running a nation is very interesting. But maybe I should try Greek :).

Rome is not the best faction to play if you're a 'powergamer' and want a real challenge.

...I have learned that now...:)

Unless... you fancy making things tough for yourself right at the start, by using the Force Diplomacy mod to give all your cities apart from Rome itself away to Epirus right at the beginning, so that you start the campaign only controlling Rome and nothing else! (That's without demolishing any buildings first, mind you, except for your government building.) Also disband half of your units, and force yourself to recruit a new army from scratch! Consider it a simulation of what would have happened if Pyrrhus of Epirus had WON his war with Rome in 275 BC, instead of losing it! This will make managing your economy tough to manage until you reconquer the 'lost' lands. Since you don't want to recreate actual history, why not try this idea and make yourself the savior of Rome?

hmmm...nice idea...that sound really cool. Maybe I also can use force diplomacy to give away some cities to different factions. I have it installed but I have no idea how to use it. Need to go and do some reading.

@Tore: i´m not sure you´re playing the "correct" mod in this case!
You´d probably be better suited with SPQR mod - i haven´t played it myself, but from what i´ve heard about it ( you can/should play only Romans in that mod since only that faction is specially adjusted for the player ) you´re going to have a lot of fun...
You might try RS ( Roma Surrectum 2 ) too, though i´m not up to date what the priorities of it are now, but the name should be ( at least a little bit of a ) program.
RTR ( FoE - Fate of Empires ) could fit your needs to - try and win the first battle as Rome against the Epirotes ( it´s actually possible on medium, but on h/vh it should be near impossible ).

Thanks for the advices...and your probably right...maybe I like them better

I know how the powergaming works, since EB is not the first mod i´m playing, but it´s also the actual reason why i choose to play EB - it´s all about selfrestriction and prefence of halfway decent historical appoach ( not slavishly following the history, but using a faction in the way it´s ment to be played by the EB dev. team ). I like to repeat/qoute a saying from a guy on this forums that EB is an experience, and not just a mod.

sounds nice...good that you have found what you like. I think I'm a little to much in the "total domination" mood I got when I played civilization IV a lot. Maybe that's not the best approach to RTW or EB. Anyway, I gona try out the other popular mods after playing trough this mod with a little more challenge :)