The most fun, the least fun and the most frustrating gaming experiences...

[Shylence]

no medium on battle map and VERY hard on world map. its a demanding game but maybe you miss the point maybe you will have to lose and regroup maybe you wont win the game but you can always try again.

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

@Pius Curus:

Congratulations, a challenge. Make some decisions, leave some provinces, lose some battles. Enjoy it!

In my Mak campaign I own everything up to Danube, Getai lands, plus the Alpine regions. Sweboz and Romans betrayed me simultaneously bringing me under hard pressure. Sweboz took Ak-Ink and Iuvavoaeta, Veldideno was twice besieged by Romans, once by Sweboz, I finally decided to leave it, what caused it rebelling to the Aedui. Now my Alpine Merc-army is going south ready to harass Mediolanum. In the meanwhile the Romans took Segestica, a really hard blow to my finances. But I like it! I levied an army to respond the threat in the north, and am currently levying another army to invade Italy from the south, so my economy is under hard pressure at the moment. But I will take everything back from those bast**ds!

[NeoSpartan]

Well fellas.... here is what I have found that makes campains fun, not fun, plain frustrating.


I think it comes down to the difficulty in which you play the game:
For example:

My most enjoyble campain to date was a KH campain VH/VH on EB .74. Yes thats right. There was no rulz, no fair fights, no waiting around, no wasting $$, and my Elites Vs AI non-elites= AI wins.... So I was forced to get REALLY creative and improvise a lot in the strategy game and the battles.

My not fun campains was my last Aedui campain in .81, VH/M (the "recommended" settings). I just could not do it. Too easy, AI was a cake walk.... Even with rulz and "role Playing", and "taking it slow" I just could not do it. At all... I got tired of it.

My darm frustrating campain was a VH/VH Aedui campain in . 74, by 268BC while still having -$ the Romans came after me hard. Too many romans. Tried it 3 more times, but I could not kill the Arverni and get +$ fast enough.


So.... for each of us, it comes down to finding the balance between fun and frustrating.
1-For some it means easy, waiting around a lot, reducing the money script for the AI.
2-For other it means to Role Play a faction, limited troop numbers, not expading into area X until the year of the actual historical expansion took place.
3-And for creasy mofo's like me it means "no rulz fight or die", because the AI's non-Elites can beat your Elites, the AI has 10X more $$ than you, and the AI is producing Elites ONLY!

What I have found is that making FATIGE FLASE makes battles really enjoyable, even in "M" battle difficulty.