Quote Originally Posted by PaulTa
If you're interested Doug, I'd love to start a new russian campaign at the same time as you and then you and I can post the happenings when we get the chance. We can agree on difficulty settings and such and compare strategies. This way, we'd not only have two reviews for russia at the same time, but a better understanding of the utility of the units since one of us didn't "just get lucky".
I'd love that ... but we'd have to do it right away. I'll be out of town until Saturday night for the holidays but could get started tonight if we can agree on conditions.

To be credible, we'd have to play either hard or very hard, tactically and strategically. Our findings would just be ignored by the core players if we didn't.

Frankly, however, I believe the AI does exceptionally foolhardy things on VH, especially tactically. As you know, I'm a horse-archer nut. I've found that enemy armies will keep fighting and get wiped completely out by HA on VH while they'd leave and fight another day on hard or medium difficulty.

So, H/H then? Anybody else have some comments?

As for city management, do what you want. I manage all cities, which tends to make my pace of play rather slow.