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]

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

oh now I get how the settings work a little more.

I think I will play H/H as the Aedui if the ROMANI end up rolling over me on my VH/M

[Simmons]

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

I was under the impression that EB "topped up" the Ai factions populations but I can't remember where this impression comes from.

[Ragabash]

I was under the impression that EB "topped up" the Ai factions populations but I can't remember where this impression comes from.

Far as I know, I havent heard or seen this happen. They might have it in next build, but I doubt there are much to do for this.

EB team could make new buildings with greater population growth bonus, but would AI build them?

Also generals could be given traits to help population growth, but again, would AI keep generals in the cities?

I dont know if its possible to help this with scripts, but again that would make turns last even longer and it would require tons of hard work.

If im all wrong, just point me out and tell me. I'm not going to eat you, I could take a bite, but no more

[PantsToucher]

AI populations are all high in may game, most cities are at least around 12,000, some are around 30,000 on huge settings. I do belive i say a population script in the scripting files, and cities with negative population growth gain men still, so I'm pretty sure there is some scripting help going on; maybe too much if anything.

[Ragabash]

Glad to hear EB have tried to do something for AI draining cities after few turns. Tho, they might have done scripts to help growth in cities, what I have experienced is that almost all non rebel cities are drained in huge settings to 1000-3000 population by AI once I invade them.

Also it seems AI is able to produce troops effeciently only twenty first years. After that almost all of their towns are drained too small(in huge settings) to produce troops effeciently.

Luckily we have mercenaries that AI uses but they dont offer too much of troubles tho.

[David_VI]

Playing M/M, stuck on England as the Casse!

[Moros]

I was under the impression that EB "topped up" the Ai factions populations but I can't remember where this impression comes from.

Well I believed it did, but to be certain I had a look in the script and apparently the sript adds population to AI settlements when it trains units.

[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.