Making your game more challenging without turtling

**kawligia** · 04-06-2007, 14:59

LOL I love to relocate at the start. :)

**Callahan9119** · 04-07-2007, 18:19

usually the popes wealth says boundless or something when i play...on hard difficulty if you want the ai to have lots of money just play on VH, they sawrm me with stacks on that level it seems...i am unsure of the boost they get in actual numbers

**HoreTore** · 04-07-2007, 19:00

Tried the money bit, and it worked very well. Started a campaign as the french, and took Dijon, Metz and Bordeaux. Once I had done that, the sicilians attack me with 15 units in Marseille, and the HRE with the same in Metz. My forces are too small to sally, and they are waiting the siege out...

Didn't get to see the result though, I've wrestled the patch since then...

**FactionHeir** · 04-07-2007, 20:43

Yup, the money bit is the most important really, as extra money means the AI will actually upgrade its cities and castles preferentially and train higher quality troops instead of purely militia (as long they can be built)

**econ21** · 04-07-2007, 23:24

Never sacking nor exterminating helps keep things challenging. I know mid-game, sacking a big city can give enormous lump sums.

Also, obeying the Pope's ceasefire demands and starving out settlements rather than storming them gives the AI time to build up.

**Durallan** · 04-08-2007, 11:09

Originally Posted by econ21

Never sacking nor exterminating helps keep things challenging. I know mid-game, sacking a big city can give enormous lump sums.

Also, obeying the Pope's ceasefire demands and starving out settlements rather than storming them gives the AI time to build up.

that kind of makes building up large armies redundant except to stop the ai from countering your siege.