EB on M/M?

[atheotes]

I had my (Rome) allies Sweboz backstab me in the middle of 100/turn for 20 turns tribute. We had been sharing borders for quite some time and this is on VH/M. AS who were allied to both Sweboz and myself broke the alliance and they were near the end of the 100/turn for 30 tuns tribute.

[Birka Viking]

I always played on VH/M before but I gott tired of the endless AI stacks, so now adays I always play on M/M. And I think its much better with not so agressive AI so u can role play more..
Cheers

[Danest]

So VH has insanely aggressive AI if I'm to understand... while Medium has non-aggressive eleutheroi. Maybe, then, Hard is the happy medium? I haven't tried that difficulty setting yet... maybe that will be my next campaign.

[Veris]

Force Diplomacy mod is the answer to the diplomatic problem; though it can be considerably annoying having to do it every other turn for awhile if the a.i is bent on attacking. It lets you roleplay or create situations to your hearts content.

Lack of a aggression is still a problem on VH sometimes. For even decades some factions (Getai, Sweboz, Casse, Bactria, Parthia, Luso are the most likely for this) will just not do anything and I have no idea why. Yet sometimes they will randomly spring to action and start on a conquering spree.

[LordCurlyton]

That's mainly because they lost a couple battles against eleutheroi in the beginning, and now the rebel generals have massive command and chevrons, making battles against them suicide for the AI.
And FWIW, I too use Force Diplomacy, but only when the AI is being terminally stupid. I don't think I've used it more than twice in my Mak camapign, which is approaching 200 BCE.

[abou]

Some times I play on M, others on H, but I haven't played an actual campaign in a long time. Last time I did it was with Lusotannan and Casse (both are very fun factions and I highly recommend them).

Both were H/M, but the AI can be very frustrating. As Casse, the rebel AI attacked me and thus wrecked my economy. I had to cheat to win that battle otherwise it would have been the end of my campaign.

[Laman]

I play on M/M. I even played vanilla only on M/M despite it being a walk in the park. The only IMO annoying thing (that may or may not be an issue in VH) is that Romans have difficulties throwing out the Epirotes from Taras (they don't really seems to try), they rather attempt to slog their way through those well-defended Eleutheroi cities in cisalpine Gaul.