I hate the endless full stacks, it's why I can't play EB despite its complete awesomeness but to be honest there is no middle ground between endless full stacks and complete easy cake walk. On VH you get the endless full stacks, on normal you don't but everything is just so bloody easy. Your fleets always win, the enemy can be defeated with half a stack of troops, you end up with way too much money all the time and so on.