Difficulty/Unit size.

[Xehh II]

What difficulty do yous play on?
I also, what unit size do you guys play with?
What are the pros/cons of playing larger/smaller units?
Also what doexs the XL 2.1 patch add?

[Haccapelite]

Well, I play on normal difficulty, since I still have a lot to learn about this game and I also like to play smaller and harder factions, so that still gives a good challenge. I think I'll try my next campaing with hard, just to see how much harder it is. I once tried a game on easy with spain, but it was so easy that I gave it up pretty quickly because every AI army consisted only of UM and peasants.
I use the default unit size, I'm just too lazy to change it, i guess.. And with it the battles can still be pretty big without reducing units' manouvrebility at all. And another thing is, that on larger unit sizes the generals bodyguard unit is pretty useless, since it stays in 20 while all other units get bigger and bigger. IIRC generals unit size stays in the same untill large. Also on small unit size bodyguards are a bit overpowered since they remain 20 men strong while all the other units get smaller.

[Garnier]

I play hard difficulty (I think expert makes it hard for the AI as well, which is stupid).

I normally play on huge unit sizes but its annoying cause it takes two turns to train a unit..

[Agent Miles]

I play on Expert with the default unit size. Bodyguard units work fine on Huge. Here's my Danish King spanking a huge unit of Swedish Vikings.
https://s132.photobucket.com/albums/...tMiles/Sweden/
Whenever I get comments like, "That won't work with huge units!", I try it with huge units and it does work. I haven't played XL...yet.

[Haccapelite]

I checked the unit sizes from the numerology thread in the yuku-page, and noticed that on every other unit size exept small and medium, the bodyguard unit is half of the normal cavalry unit size, a third of a infantry unit and one fifth of a spear unit.

[caravel]

Royal Knights and Ghulam Bodyguards are simply not scalable, their unit size is always 20 which is half the regular base size for cavalry. This does make them more vulnerable when playing on huge unit size. It is better to edit the unit prod file and make them scalable.