Difficulty levels - what do they do? what do you recommend?

[PROMETHEUS]

in hard or above campaign the agents of foreign powers always have bonuses , so it means that the right one should be medium , about battles I find enjoyable only the very hard one ...

[Jambo]

in hard or above campaign the agents of foreign powers always have bonuses , so it means that the right one should be medium , about battles I find enjoyable only the very hard one ...

Hmm, I wondered why my agents kept on dying to the AI's on VH/VH and this explains it. The AI merchants never lose to mine and my assassins are pretty hopeless at killing anything.

Like I say though, I play on VH/VH. My campaign is with Scotland and I've destroyed France and England and I'm currently sitting with 14 provinces in NW Europe after about 130 turns. My super hard King has nearly completed his crusade to Antioch and overall I still think I can meet the 45 province requirement to win. However, it will be a tough push to achieve this in the 95 or so turns remaining.

I can't see myself ever playing on anything less than VH/VH to be honest. I used to play VH/M(or H) in Rome but I hated the higher battle difficulty levels as they skewed the unit stats too much.