Does Anyone Play Anything Else But Medium?

**DaCrAzYmOfO** · 07-22-2007, 23:48

I have been reading through many posts, and apparently I have seen that most players play with medium battles and hard campaign difficulty. During all the time I been playing rome total war I found out that medium battles are just pushovers, due to the fact of morale (anvil and hammer works ALWAYS), so I play very hard battles and medium campaign difficulty, mostly because of the sexy AI attacking me from all sides and not allowing me to use anything besides crappy tier 1 spearmen.... Not that I'm against it...usually pwn em anyways :P. Either way, reading a post earlier I saw on how Europa Barbarorum was meant to be played on medium battles.... Has anyone actually played a lenghty campaign on medium battles and another one on hard battles to try to explain the difference? I just feel that very hard is nice, but some units dont make the cut, such as one post which depicted the vascii shock infantry getting swallowed whole by the romans... Which happened to me btw

... gosh I hate that roman armor...they just dont die >.>

**MarcusAureliusAntoninus** · 07-22-2007, 23:55

The EB stats are balanced for Medium. You can play on Hard or Very Hard, and I've seen many people who say they do. But the rule is, if you have a battle and they AI seems to magically cheat and a single unit of AI Gaesatatae kills a full stack of your units, you can't complain. Some units who are strong in Medium are nearly undefeatable in H or VH.

But if you like the challege, more power to you!

**Starforge** · 07-23-2007, 01:49

I play all of the versions of RTW on H / H. VH battles can make for some ridiculous results. VH campaign actually makes the game easier from my experience since that means typically more fights against easy merc armies (AI has more money) giving your units more free experience. These essentially meaningless fights in VH that can lead (at least for me) to fairly quick burnout.

I suspect also that which version of difficulty will depend on which faction you pick. Rome, Carthage, some of the others can probably win on VH without too much trouble. The smaller nations near AS might have some trouble with that though :).

**DaCrAzYmOfO** · 07-23-2007, 05:28

lol yeah...I used to play vh/vh...till I realised i got pissed at fighting too many battles everyturn against all my neighbors lol...

But yeah...I see...ima give medium a shot...I just hope i dont get bored lol ;P

**Tellos Athenaios** · 07-23-2007, 05:49

As for tactics, Medium or VH doesn't make much of a difference. You're rid of the crazy bonuses the AI get with Medium that's all. (Which means your Vasci shock infanty will give those Romans a nasty surprise next time.)

**Thaatu** · 07-23-2007, 06:23

Has anyone played with Aedui or Arverni with hard or very hard battle difficulty? I play with Aedui on H/M, and I had a little problem when I decided to prolong the civil wars, not eliminating Arverni immediately. By 260 BCE Gergovia had 10 units of Gaesatae in its garrison, while I was still in the red. By 240 Gergovia had the king, 17 Gaesatae and two slingers. Thankfully, in 238 BCE the last Arverni family member died and they ceased to exist as a faction. I really can't think of a way to beat an army of 17 Gaesatae, especially with H or VH.