Someone on the main forum suggested that CA has confirmed somewhere that the difficulty settings currently are "not working as intended" and will be fixed at some point in the future... Duh...
I did not get the exact reference yet though.
As to vassals: a habit from S2. I used vassals extensively there to have someone to trade with post RD and secure borders in areas where I did not want to expand. Here, in R2, vassals also add a bit of challenge since they tend to drag you into unintended wars ;)
Anyone else notice a new siege crash-bug that has appeared with patch IV? Usually happens when selecting several of your units and asking them to go inside a walled settlement (through a breach). The game freezes. This was not present (in my games) before patch IV, but now I've seen it already 5 times. The bug appears persistent too: a battle replay results just in another crash so have to use autoresolve to get through.
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