Expert Mode easier than Hard?

[Maloncanth]

In my experience, the autoresolve doesn't get any worse on expert. My preferred strategy on attack is simply to mass a force of the appropriate size and either drive the enemy into retreat or press autoresolve as desired. It's as easy as pie with almost anyone in early. It does get less practical the later in history one starts since there's less time to build up the overwhelming force required but for me, it's still easier than trying to fight the stuff myself.

As an addendum, I've never been able to consistently assassinate a general in battle. If he wanders in close enough for massed crossbows to nail him, sure (missiles aren't picky), but I can name all sorts of times where 2 ghulam bodyguards basically destroyed/routed my entire army (of professional christian armoured troops), I've had them go through italians, I've had single swiss armoured pikemen generals basically spear dozens of horses. I once even had a bunch of royal knights get charged from above by an entire unit of druzina (armour piercing) and they killed all the druzhina down to 2 and the general never died. I'm personally convinced it just isn't a consistent tactic.