difficulty setting

[traveller2]

eb is recomended at campaign very hard and strategic medium right well what does the campaign difficulty actually do? strategic I know the ai gets bonusses and such but campaign I never knew (not even in rtw vanilla).

Really great work guys love this version now I just need to find time to play

[The Celtic Viking]

Strategically, the harder the difficulty, the more aggressive will the AI be towards you. You will get harder to sign diplomatic deals, and they will hate you more and longer (as if they could actually stop) and it is said that they also get bonus money (though this I personally don't know about) the harder the campaign difficulty. The eleutheroi may even send units to take your villages in VH, as opposed to N.

EB recommends VH because it makes eleutheroi villages act more like independant cities, as they are supposed to, but it's really a matter of personal taste.

[johnhughthom]

Extra 10K per turn on VH for the AI.

[Jurdagat]

I personally prefer H difficulty for the campaign.
Mainly since compared to N difficulty the eleutheroi actually is aggressive at times, and they can end up sieging cities from time to time.
Another thing is that diplomacy is a bit easier to handle then on VH difficulty.

I don't always like the feeling of being the big bad faction that everyone is after, even when I am just a small empire. :)

I find it very frustrating to get overwhelmed early on by playing smaller factions, since I take my time and don't expand to fast.

I haven't played on VH campaign much, as I found H to be what suits for me.
Again this is just my personal opinion, and I hope it was helpful. :)

[johnhughthom]

I've noticed a few post from the team where they have said they are thinking of changing the recommended difficulty to H/M so the diplomacy is not quite as stupid. The money script seems to be balanced well for hard campaign difficulty.

[NeoSpartan]

Nahhh fellas....

EB recommends VH campain as The Vicious Monkey explains. As the $$ bonus allow the AI to NOT go broke since it cannot handle the complexity of EB's economy.

Now on BATTLE diffuculty.... here are some general guidelines that will help if figuring out what difficutly to play.

-Medium (recommended by EB): This allows you ROLEPLAY way better than anything. You can set rules as of the size of your armies, elite units in ur armies, not assult cities, etc.... This is generaly used in the AARs and many Roleplaying Romani players use it. Also M allows battles between units to reflect thier stats better as the AI doesn't get stat bonues. Its good also for bigginers to EB,... or for people who are used to Legions beating everyone

-Medium with FATIGE OFF Its my personal recommendation if you play M since the AI doens't know how to manage Fatige. It tires its troops by having them run around too much, so u end up facing an "exausted enemy" which routs instantly.

However... to me Medium is WAY too easy, to the point were the game is not longer fun.

-Hard or Hard with Fatige OFF (My personal favorite, especially fatige off )
--It gives the AI units some bonuses to make up for its lack of tactical knowledge. So the AI is more of a challenge in battles. This difficulty also allows you to Roleplay (to a sligly lesser extent though), or set a few house rules like no all elite armies, or not RUSHING the AI.

-Very Hard If you want a challege here it is.. The AI gets HUGE bonuses (+7) and Gaesatae are damn near invisible in VH (some people will argue that they are actually invinsible in VH). As a result you have no rules. Just try to survive.
--And if you play as the Aedui/Arverni, any nomad faction, or any faction surrounding the "Silver Death" or AS (exept for the Ptolemoi). VH will be near impossible due to not only the Ai bonuses but ur s**y economy as well
--VH general best used with Rich factions. And if you want to go creazy at it, go VH with Fatige off. Yes its doable, I did with KH in .81v.

[Fearless Samnite]

i guess i should start playing my campaigns on vh/vh now

but my question is why fatigue off

having it on is going to help me too

is it really my fault that the ai is anal and wants to setup a massive formation
and will do nothing else but always setup in this formation at every battle

having every man running left and right tiring themselves


but on vh/vh.....they have extreme morale ......my unit might as well have 0 in all their stats if the enemy have 30 in all theirs

i mean come on.....not only that but they get massive amounts of money and aggressive expansionist ai

oh did i mention that the rebels .....will pop up no matter what oh and they will be random sometimes elite units......and then they will sometime besiege my cities while im off fighting for my life on the front lines.....yes my campaign...


so now having fatigue off will make things easy.....i can run around like a mad man never exhausted and so can the enemy.....but its not really realistic..

and i know mentioning the word realistic is a touchy word and invites trouble

but with fatigue on its just as hard or harder then what everyone is thinking
IMHO

your going to get exhausted no matter what and so will the enemy...but who will route first??........YOU!

so having fatigue on is harder hands down.
tring to convince myself