What difficulty level do you play at?

[Seasoned Alcoholic]

RTW

I've played on various levels of both campaign and battlefield difficulty since RTW was released. Think I started off M / M and then after a few imperial campaigns, switched to VH / VH. There was a discussion about the various difficulty levels that went into some depth (people were actually testing the difficulty levels and reporting the results they encountered). Some stated that on VH / VH the AI and / or human player receives combat and / or morale bonuses. However, think this difficulty debate was posted at another forum, when I tried to search for that post, it and related ones had been deleted!

However, that post changed my mind about the difficulty levels in RTW. After many varied campaigns, the campaign difficulty appears to do exactly what it says on the tin But the battlefield difficulty on VH did follow a predictable pattern (as was discussed in that difficulty debate post), battles seemed shorter - either your or (more frequently) the AI's army would rout after a few moments of melee. Whereas in VH / M, the battles appeared to last longer because of the absence of these apparent morale and / or combat bonuses.

VH / M has been the difficulty level for me after original long spells on the higher difficulty levels.

On a side note, has this issue been addressed in the latest patches? I haven't played VH / VH since v1.2

BI

Haven't played that much BI tbh, although I've completed a Roxolani campaign on VH / VH (which was Very Hard, plenty of Pyrrhic victories / defeats here ). BI seems to have either removed or dealt with the apparent morale and / or combat bonuses, because the vanilla battles lasted greater periods of time than battles in RTW.