Quote Originally Posted by katank
Are you sure that you get a first mission for Caralis or Patavium? I've been playing on VH/VH for a while and got the same missions as the Roman factions all the time.

I always played on normal until the last few weeks. It seems the beginning senate missions are tied to difficulty.

On very hard the senate missions are to strike the enemy where it hurts them the most.

On normal Julii the A.I. missions seem to take you to France as they are easy to take usually but does not hit the Gauls economic power. Whereas on very hard Patavium is an early target, wich means more Gauls to fight due to it being a populated town but you are taking a nice rich province from them.

Brutii seems to be different too. On normal it seems the mission are those 2 rebel towns. On very hard there first mission seems to be Thermon wich hits the Greeks hard and early. Big difference when I played Greeks on normal as it gave me time to prepare a defense in Thermon before there arrival, on very hard I had to evacuate and left some skirmishers but the impact does make it harder for the Greeks.

As far as Scipii I do'nt think theres any difference as theres not a whole lot of avenues for them to take early.