Regarding Difficulty level...

[Valion]

That's exactly the point why i always played Vh/Vh since i find my tactics very effective against the AI. In vanilla i always exploit the AI's weakness thus Vh/Vh became my standard but since i started playing EB i find that enemy units at Vh are quite hard to beat and seing people mentioned that even elite troops can get pumelled by skirmishers i considered M battle difficulty.

Before i posted this thread i played at Vh/Vh romani and always managed to gain some heroic victories but that given i had to use the terrain to my advantage and letting the AI come to me. even still i noticed a number of times that my triarii's getting routed by mercenaries >.> that is even when they have terrain advantage. So rather than waste my efforts in relentless battles that make my Elite troops into paper i rather strip the AI of it's bonuses and fight on even grounds.

With that said i would love to know if diplomacy is still possible in Vh campaign difficulty.. i don't mind battle every turn that way i don't get bored Lol.

[QuintusSertorius]

The very idea of fighting stack after stack of endless-money-costs-nothing-to-replenish-them armies is just about as opposite as you could get to fun, for me.

[bobbin]

With that said i would love to know if diplomacy is still possible in Vh campaign difficulty.. i don't mind battle every turn that way i don't get bored Lol.

Its as possible as diplomacy can be in a RTW based game, like i said before on VH the ai is more aggressive and will declare war on you more often (even if your allied to them), they also rarely accept peace offers so getting the Force Diplomacy mod is recommended unless you like having to completely destroy every faction you have a minor tussle with.

Ive also read somewhere that campaign difficulty affects naval battles so you get the occasional odd result but these aren't very common if i recall.

[Valion]

Forced deplomacy mod? where can i get that?

[Poppis]

Modding forum stickies.

[bobbin]

forced diplomacy mod
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=80763

[Dogukan]

I also need help about this.
I started a roman campaign on vh/h and took over Spain-Italy-south of Gaul-sicialy and whole Greece to Byzantion. It was FUN!
But I was very unsuccesfull against Northern Barbarian, they always had the advantage on melee.

So I decided to start another campaign as Makedons on H/M...I kicked Greeks out in 4 turns and finised Epirus by the end of 20 or so...and got to say it wasn't fun at all. I never won battles like these in vh/h with Romans. I hope it is because of the phalanx success or I will quit that campaign.

I'm thinking of palying on either vh/m or h/h but can't decide. h/m was too easy or it was because I bliztkrieged Epirus and Hellenes.

[QuintusSertorius]

Blitzkrieg is even more successful as a tactic when you're not playing on VH, because it's much harder for the AI factions to replenish their armies.

[Valion]

Well i decided to play on Vh/M after reading through this... Vh campaign difficulty so that the AI doesnt get depleted of resources everytime i crush it's armies and M battle difficulty for even grounds in stats.

Thanks again guys now i can start a fresh game i can micro on.

EDIT:
Wow i just routed a Epeiros army of 945 with my own of 665 at M battle difficulty with only 33 casualties o.O This is a huge change from my normal experiences in Vh seing they routed easier when they get surrounded or charged at and taking huge cassualties. it makes some more sense now seing what just happened to them always happens to my men in Vh when in the same situation. Also i noticed they weren't as hard as bricks to kill Lol.

I feel like there wasn't any effort in the battle since all i had to do was use terrain advantage and kill his general with my slingers Lol.

Well maybe the barbarians in the north will dice my armies into pieces and make me actually plan my battle^_^

[QuintusSertorius]

Ive also read somewhere that campaign difficulty affects naval battles so you get the occasional odd result but these aren't very common if i recall.

Campaign difficulty skews all auto-calced battles, which of course means all naval ones.