Hello all
After many years of playing vanilla RTW, I've finally decided to give some mods a go. After some reading around on these forums I settled on playing just the RTR(PE), for now at least. It seems the most stable and not overly complicated option (also I don't have BI so I'm somewhat limited in my choices). And so far, I'm liking it very very much. I'm not yet at the point of "I can never go back to vanilla", but still, I enjoy it; my (much belated) congratulations to all who were involved in this project!
Now, "so far" in my case is only a couple turns; in fact I've only taken one settlement, about to take a second. And here's my question then: how should I judge the difficulty levels compared to vanilla? First off, not counting my very first vanilla game, I've always played that one on VH/H or VH/VH because otherwise there's no challenge whatsoever, as I'm sure is the case for everyone. I know in RTR the AI bonuses in both campaign and battle are identical to vanilla, but since I'm knew to this mod and I read that the units are supposed to balance out on "medium" battle difficulty, I started my (Roman) campaign on M/M thinking it would be quite the challenge. Now, after my first battle (perhaps too early to judge), I'm sort of thinking I shall have to start over on "hard" for the battles since it was quite easy and I hardly suffered any losses...
In short, would you recommend playing RTR on the same difficulty levels as I'm used to on vanilla, or would you say RTR is inherently more challenging and e.g. vanilla H/H compares to RTR M/M? Thanks in advance for any input!