I recently finished my first single player campaign. I played the English on Normal. I warred with France pretty early, and once I saw how that went I realized that I was probably going to have a pretty easy time winning the game. I did, getting to 60 provinces sometime in the 1200's.

I am thinking of playing my next campaign on Hard using GA. From what I have read, Expert cheats on the battlefield by giving enemy units additional morale and I really don't care for that.

Is there a particular faction that will really be a challenge in GA on Hard?

Will hard give me a good game or do I need to go to Expert?

Also, I was wondering how long (in hours) your campaigns generally take. I think I must have had 40-50 hours in my first one, auto-calculating about one out of five battles.

Regards,

Thern