Pahlav

[QwertyMIDX]

EB is best played on VH/M in order to make the rebels and AI aggressive but keep stats balanced properly.

[econ21]

EB is best played on VH/M in order to make the rebels and AI aggressive but keep stats balanced properly.

Excellent - my favorite settings, for the reason you give. I play RTR on VH/M and it works well - M/M is no challenge as Rome. But I am currently playing EB on M/M. I am not sure it needs the VH campaign, even for the Romans. The AI seems to have more than enough money to buy troops and is not too shy about starting wars - it is 248 in my Roman game and I have been attacked by Epeiros, Greece, both Gauls and Carthage. All but Carthage have had very big armies.

[QwertyMIDX]

If you don;t play on VH campaign difficultly the rebels will never seige your cities though, which takes a lot of the challange out of EB.

[Rodion Romanovich]

I play VH/VH but the rebels don't seem to besiege me very often...

[QwertyMIDX]

Yeah, even on VH they don't do it often, but rarely is MUCH better than never.

[Ambiorix]

When I play as Pahlav the rebels seem to come out of the woodwork to seige my cities. This is the only faction thus far I have utterly failed on all of my approaches with.

[Arman616]

I am 12 years into my pahlav campaign. I basically disbanded everything in the beginning, then built my economy from the ground up, and then attacked the north eastern selucid pronvinces and cut them off from the rest of their empire. Now i'm going to retake iran, and then turn east onto bactria and yeuhzi.

[The_White_Knight]

Yeah, even on VH they don't do it often, but rarely is MUCH better than never.

I started a 'hard' campaign once, as the Baktrians and my starting cities were nearly annihilated by rebel forces.

In the future it will be very different.

How?