What difficulty do you play at?

[skuzzy]

It is not difficult to beat the game on VH/VH assuming you create a decent economy and have elite stacks. But lately I've been trying to create more realism so I'm playing VH/H and actually losing a couple battles instead of always winning. It hurts me sometimes but by only alternating between two save points I don't allow myself the luxury of going back and fighting again. Of course this was all before I got annoyed of all the CTDs I get after 250B.C. in general so now I am waiting for 0.81 as patiently as possible without threatening the team with suicide and hope that it sits on their consciences. I WILL SUICIDE /WRISTS.

[Obelics]

0.72/0.74 Pahlava/Parthians VH/VH
0.74 Greeks VH/VH
0.74 Aedui VH/M
0.8 Pahlava VH/VH
0.8 Cartage VH/M
0.8 Romans VH/M
0.8 Greeks VH/VH
0.8 Lusitanians M/H

I dont know why i choosed this settings... boh?
on battles I usually tend to choose VH/VH for Phalanx & Horse-archers factions, while i tend to choose medium for sword factions (pheraphs because sword units tend to be useless against phalanx and horse-archer on VH)

[L.C.Cinna]

I used to play VH/VH with RTR so I started a Romani campaign on VH/VH with EB 0.8 and I have to say I stopped around the year 220 and started a new one on VH/M.

I never have problems with the economy. In my first Romani campaign on VH/VH i had around 500.000 mnai by 220 and that with several mercenary armies and all my starting towns on highest level already. but I got frustrated with fieldbattles. I managed to conquer the whole Carthi empire but lost most field battles. They had insane armies of heavy cav, heavy african pikemen and iberian assault troops everywhere and some of my units, especially my iberian scutarii fled the field on first contact. I wasn't able to move my general that fast from one scared unit to another.

I like it much better on VH/M now as it seems not so unrealistic although I have to say for my next campaign I'll probably use VH/H. I like the economic system in EB. It's well balanced imho. I always try to bring the economy up as fast as possible, use my generals to govern important towns, replace hired merc with cheap garrisons and try to make peace with an enemy if I'm in the position I wanted. This way I have peace with the Carthies now again after I took Sicilia and I do make lots of money. It's the year 262 now and I own all of Italy up to Bononia and Segesta plus all of Sicily, can build in every town and got around 98.000mnai on my account.