bugged difficulty levels?

[soibean]

I think vh much have some problems in it. I did a custom battle for kicks, my force of fully upgraded War hounds against 2 forces of non upgraded peasants. Thats something like 27 attack vs 1 defense. I just wanted to see all the dogs swarm over them as they fled.
Instead half of my forces are routed before the enemy even begins to run, and it turns out that even my dog handlers are being massacred by the basic peasants.... yea

[Mongoose]

the vanilla game is pretty nutty, i would suggest that you install SPQR:total war

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=23634

Enjoy!

[CMcMahon]

The only difference I've noticed on H/VH is that the AI actually flanks you, and will setup sieges so that they'll attack from multiple directions (although they actually tow their battering ram/ladder/siege tower around the building instead of setting it up right in front of the location).

[Mount Suribachi]

Does RTR do anything about the combat speeds on the higher difficulty levels?

[warelephant]

what does spqr do exactly? are there other good mods..i'm so confused by the number of mods. i'm new to mods and stuff so does modding not adversely affect the way the game runs or the computer's files does it? ( i mean it seems like it shouldnt but i might as well make sure). and most importantly, does spqr make the game battles more challenging?