Any way to play the battles on hard and the campaing map on easy?

[bretwalda]

Well, Spain just suicided itself. They had 4 provinces, just send out a successful crusade (well, almost successful - 1 step away from target)

They attacked me with an all cavalry army through a river... I did not have any missle troops - maybe thats why. But they managed to have their king killed in the battle and there was no heir... 4 rebel provinces gonna be mine. (I made a house rule that I will not attack except for crusade target province and try to bribe rebels not attacking them.)

I am playing this on easy with Sicilians but the battle was way too easy. The spainsh cavalry allowed to trap, sandwich and crush itself.

The trap is closed...



Cavalry in sandwich...



No one escaped death or capture...




Is it only on easy that the AI makes such mistakes? I wish if I could battle on normal or on hard and do campaign map on easy... Which is funny because I am otherwise a TBS fan, with heavy civ1-2-3 experience so I should be doing better on the campaign map :)))