difficulty setting

**johnhughthom** · 10-19-2007, 16:41

Extra 10K per turn on VH for the AI.

**Jurdagat** · 10-19-2007, 17:43

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** · 10-19-2007, 18:00

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** · 10-19-2007, 18:28

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.

**tapanojum** · 10-19-2007, 18:34

Didn't know it was recommended VH/M. I'm playing KH in H/H, and it's not noticably harder than M/M. Year 258, kicked Maks out of Greece and took some Barbarian land to the north as well with 60,000gold.

**Tarkus** · 10-19-2007, 19:18

I'm playing H/M and, so far in the early stages of a Romani campaign, don't see the Eleutheroi doing much of anything...I'd like to see them be a bit more aggressive...I guess VH/M is the way to go...

**Starforge** · 10-19-2007, 19:39

NeoSpartan got it right. Playing on VH / M is great but really only if you're roleplaying it (no assaults.) Blitzing on VH / M (or heck even VH / H) is going to make the game easy since the AI doesn't handle it well. Using BI helps by making you garrison normally "safe" areas on your coasts - tying up resources that could be used for expansion (again - harder if you're roleplaying.)

I haven't tried EB on VH / VH since I started house-rules and more roleplaying and not sure I would want to save maybe with Rome.

Then again - I'm not really a masochist

**Pharnakes** · 10-19-2007, 19:54

Originally Posted by NeoSpartan

Gaesatae are damn near invisible

Invisible? I wish! the damn things are anything but invisble!

Sorry but that was just too perfect an opportunity

*hurredly checks before posting to make sure own spelling and grammar is flawless*

**NeoSpartan** · 10-19-2007, 20:12

Originally Posted by Pharnakes

Invisible? I wish! the damn things are anything but invisble!

Sorry but that was just too perfect an opportunity

*hurredly checks before posting to make sure own spelling and grammar is flawless*

LOL!!! nice pharnakes.....

**blacksnail** · 10-19-2007, 21:05

"Sir, I have some bad news."
"Yes, centurion?"
"Our scouts report that we are surrounded by hundreds of invisible men who are, er, 'coked to the gills.'"
"Wonderful. Anything else?"
"For some reason they are all nude."