Poll: scale the difficulty of each campaign

[Mulceber]

There's no way AS is easier than the Romani, Kart-Hadast, or Ptolies.

I can't speak for the Ptolemies, but AS is definitely easier than Kart-Hadast and Rome. Rome, as I mentioned earlier, is made difficult by the fact that you have a LOT of land to conquer and it becomes quite difficult to ferry your troops back and forth half-way across the map to retrain them. Kart-Hadast suffers, I think, from the fact that its troops aren't quite as robust as those of Rome (at least in my opinion). For the AS, if you can handle the issues of the first 20 turns, it becomes a cake-walk. That's why I think it's easy. It may be difficult in the first few years, but once you stabilize the economy, AS has a large population, a large stream of revenue, the most diverse troops of the game and some of the most powerful troops of the game. In short, it's a powerhouse. Rome and Kart-Hadast, by comparison, are easy in the first decade or so, but then become significantly more difficult once you start running into enemies overseas. -M

[WinsingtonIII]

I can't speak for the Ptolemies, but AS is definitely easier than Kart-Hadast and Rome. Rome, as I mentioned earlier, is made difficult by the fact that you have a LOT of land to conquer and it becomes quite difficult to ferry your troops back and forth half-way across the map to retrain them. Kart-Hadast suffers, I think, from the fact that its troops aren't quite as robust as those of Rome (at least in my opinion). For the AS, if you can handle the issues of the first 20 turns, it becomes a cake-walk. That's why I think it's easy. It may be difficult in the first few years, but once you stabilize the economy, AS has a large population, a large stream of revenue, the most diverse troops of the game and some of the most powerful troops of the game. In short, it's a powerhouse. Rome and Kart-Hadast, by comparison, are easy in the first decade or so, but then become significantly more difficult once you start running into enemies overseas. -M

Eh I guess I've never played far enough into a Roman or Carthaginian game, because I've always found them easy to the point of being uninteresting

[Rahl]

Rome and Kart-Hadast, by comparison, are easy in the first decade or so, but then become significantly more difficult once you start running into enemies overseas. -M

They become significantly more difficult? As Kart-Hadast you can easily conquer whole Iberia and then there is nothing that can stop you, because the roman AI isn't very expansionistic. Rome is maybe a little bit harder, but actually still easier then AS since the roman economy is strong, the infantry is very cost-effective and you can choose where to expand without fearing many enemys. But maybe I'm too good in playing EB to be objectiv.

[Revoltie]

That is why I use the Realist Movement Mod, the AI turns into a steamroller with it, in my Makedonia campaign, the Getai conquered all eastern europe up to Finland, the AS are total monsters and romans are expandin g like barbarians.