Increasing Campaign Difficulty

[WeApOn]

What exactly does the Campaign difficulty increase? I'm trying to find the best difficulty, because I can almost withstand every attack from other factions and I only lost a few battles, but I won way too many ridiculous battles that I shouldn't have. Currently I am on Hard Campaign and Normal Battle Campaign.

What should I change to have a better experience?

[danfda]

I do hard/hard. Course, it blasphemous to say so, but I almost always auto resolve. That makes things more difficult, since I often find myself cursing at the screen when my superior army loses to pathetic rabble...

Try vh/vh, if you want a challenge. I'd assume that's the toughest.

[WeApOn]

I want to try that, but I don't want it to be too hard. But what exactly does Campaign Difficulty increase?

[Rhedd]

I can't answer the question in its entirety, but diplomatic relations vary widely depending on the difficulty setting. On easy, your relations with other countries slowly moves toward perfect, on very hard it moves toward abysmal, and on medium your relations are constantly creeping towards neutral.

The harder the difficulty, the harder it is to make friends, and the more aggressive everyone is.

Frankly, I think anything higher than medium is just silly, so I play on M/VH.

You should definitely try battles on VH. The increased morale and fatigue effects (for both you and the enemy) are interesting to work with.

Want a real challenge? Believe it or not, I've taken to playing all of my battles with the General Camera view. Seems insane at first, but God it's fun! Talk about immersion!

[WhiskeyGhost]

Hard difficulty isn't that bad. In fact despite it being centralised towards abysmal like VH, it doesn't seem to move as fast, and if you have some Trade Rights/Alliance/ Same religion (i think) then it will increase towards perfect, albeit slow. On VH it would be stagnant, but on H its nice and even i guess.

I'm not totally sure, but i think the size/amount of armies the AI deploys also increases with campaign difficulty, since my first game on easy had them fielding half stacks all over and the one i play on hard has nearly full ones every time.

[WeApOn]

Yeah. Something like more enemies in a stack or better enemies would be what I'm looking for. I see alot of full stack enemies and I get excited I might have a tough battle, but then I notice its full of mercenaries. :(