Historically I've played TW titles on Hard as I found normal too easy.

I think with the stray from historical references I'm a little too vanilla to my approach to enjoy hard difficulty out of the box. But normal is literally a cake-walk. I rarely encounter the Chaos hordes as they usually get wiped out before clearing the northern reaches.

However with Hard I'm stopped at every turn.

I think I play too conservatively for hard and don't take enough risks. IE I waste turns building stacks that can trounce their opponents, whereas using lighter stacks would allow me to employ multiple forces towards multiple objectives leading to a bigger empire sooner.

Any thoughts comments?