What difficulty are you playing on?

**nikolai1962** · 03-29-2006, 02:23

H/M.

I dislike the stat thing with battles above M and so try to make the battles harder by limiting my tactics to be more realistic e.g min camera height etc.

If you want the rebels to attack your cities you have to have H or VH campaign unfortunatley. Personally i think making the ai more aggressive doesn't always make the game better as the ai wastes it's time attacking places it can't take. Ideally the game should be set up so that the ai has advantages built in that balance out the areas where it has flaws, e.g retraining units, depopulating its cities, naval stuff etc. EB has done some cool things with scripting to do this and there are probably a lot more things that could be added to this. I think that is a better approach than the ai just having more money and being more generally aggressive. But the rebels not attacking cities is hard-coded it seems to H or VH setting.

I use large sizes out of habit as my old pc couldn't handle huge but when i remember i make it huge. Huge-size battles are way more fun (except in seiges when they are a total pain).

edit: mines. Is it possible to have a hidden resource, exceptionalmine, or something that has a mines+2 upgrade. That way the few special mines that really did make a huge difference (i think macedonian power was built on them?) while keeping the rest as just very useful but not unbalancing. Or having the mine capability section giving different cash depending on the presence or absence of certain hidden resources.

e.g

capability
{
mine_resource 8 require hidden_resource nomalmine
mine_resource 60 requires hidden_resource supermine
}

**Avicenna** · 04-02-2006, 04:20

VH/M as Baktria.

Almost got wiped out by the Eleutheroi :$

Faction heir's army got destroyed. I took the province east to Baktria (forgot the name) and had it taken by 2 rebel stacks. Then Baktra itself was almost taken by a stack of rebel scum, luckily I managed to defeat them. Getting rubbish suitors, the best being a person with negative influence and management, but sharp/charismatic/vigorous. Unloyal though. Only decent general is faction leader, and he's probably going to pop off soon. I've got a good spy, diplomat and assassin though.

**Cheexsta** · 04-11-2006, 01:21

VH/M as Pontos. I currently only have four provinces, the Seleucids are breathing down my neck and I only have half a stack of troops to defend myself. Not to mention a 25,000 mnai debt and a quarterly income of 700.

This is going to be a bitch to get back on my feet.

**Warlord 11** · 04-11-2006, 02:05

H/M as Baktria. I have four provinces and things are looking very good for me.

**Bohemians** · 04-12-2006, 23:50

VH/VH with Romani's.... growing slowly, huge battles with Huge units...

Bohemians the Insane

**orwell** · 04-15-2006, 02:54

For my first full campaign I'm trying H/M, I'm not sure how tough the battles are in EB compared to RTR, but the gaestae just wiped the floor with me. I usually go with H/H, I want the AI to get a little bonus to make up for tactics, but VH just seems pointless, and every test I've run with how the game plays out in VH just ended poorly. As far as unit sizes.... where do you change that? I looked in options but I never saw it anywhere, can you correct during a game?