What difficulty are you playing on?

[orwell]

Any unit will do, I've won battles with just peasants on Crete? since my army was too far out to sea to get there in time. Though, I'm beginning to think about a Triarii only army to deal with that damned Syracruse. Siege battles that aren't in a bare barbarian village I always find are a pain to fight.

[NeoSpartan]

In vanilla, and XGM I played VH/VH. So far I had to restart my campain with the Aedui and put the difficulty on VH/M, hopefully I'll get the hang of of EB soon.

one question thought. Where can I swich off fatigue??? The AI doesn't know how to manage this feature well and has its army running around too much.

[Avicenna]

Should be able to if you press escape from the campaign map view. Or, there hsould be a file in your EB folder called preferences.txt or something like that. Open it, change FATIGUE:TRUE to FALSE. Then save it. Back it up first though, just in case you get something wrong.

[PantsToucher]

People who can be succesfull in this mod on vh/vh get my respect, I've lost a a couple campains on vh/m, one Getai one late in the game around 220 when Rome rolled over me.

[Avicenna]

Depends on what faction really. Hearing from everyone saying that the Ptolemaic Kleruchoi Agemata is overpowered, I think that a Ptolemaic campaign shouldn't be difficult, given that, their initial size, and the riches flowing through the Nile.

[stalin]

Any faction that uses the phalanx is immune to AI's tactics thus can be played on any settings quite succesfully. Letting the Naked Ones run around and get exhausted makes them very prone to routing. I've routed them in sieges at around 30 (pinned with phallanx, charged with cav from behind and immediatelly charged with infantry after the cav breaks their formation)

[Ragabash]

For me settings are:

Campaign map: very hard, AI need all help in financial way to be able to provide troops.

Battles: medium, mostly because AI gets more money for troops, that way I might win more but AI have more money for troops

Scale: Large or medium, AI drain cities too fast if played in huge.

If I play on huge its VH/VH

[NeoSpartan]

Any faction that uses the phalanx is immune to AI's tactics thus can be played on any settings quite succesfully. Letting the Naked Ones run around and get exhausted makes them very prone to routing. I've routed them in sieges at around 30 (pinned with phallanx, charged with cav from behind and immediatelly charged with infantry after the cav breaks their formation)

It is true, the AI has a major difficulty dealing with phalanxes in the early and middle game. Usually by the late game its units won't rout so easely because thier are the best or 2nd best of that Faction/Region. And when the AI plays with phalanx armies it breaks thier formation.

I have a VH/VH campain with the Greek Cities and I just took corinth and doing OK (for now at least)

I had to RESTART my Audiu campain, this time on H/H. (Romans don't expand so quickly and Rebels don't siege your cities) Itis year 23+ and the Arverni, Romani and Sweboz are dead.