What difficulty level do you play at?

[Mount Suribachi]

Hard and Very Hard campaign difficulty really annoy me due to 2 main reasons

1) The difficulty in obtaining map information and alliances - no one want to know you. I've even had a faction cancel an alliance and attack me simply because I asked to swap maps. Grrrrr.....

2) The ridiculous results you constantly get with naval battles. Of course 4 Triremes with a 2 star Admiral should lose more men in a battle with a solitary Bireme with a zero star Admiral. Grrrrrr.......

I appreciate that its meant to be more difficult - like most here I want a challenge but when it starts being silly to the point that it ruins game features, that annoys me.