So, how's the difficulty in 0.8?

**hzh** · March 05, 2014, 03:49 PM

I chose hard for campaign difficulty when playing 0.75, and had tons of trouble with it. The AI simply had too much recruitment and financial bonuses that they just dump full stacks at you every single turn. The battles became so inconsequential and tedious that I eventually stopped playing.

My question is, is there any change in terms of difficulty in 0.8? What campaign AI should I choose to avoid the problem I mentioned above. I really want the bigger battles to be a bit more decisive so there are some kind of meanings for victories.

**Dresden** · March 05, 2014, 03:55 PM

Normal/Hard the AI gets 1 extra recruitment slot. Easy the AI gets the same as vanilla.

**Clerc** · March 05, 2014, 05:59 PM

Originally Posted by Dresden

Normal/Hard the AI gets 1 extra recruitment slot. Easy the AI gets the same as vanilla.

What about legendary and very hard ?

**LawL_LawL** · March 05, 2014, 06:03 PM

Originally Posted by Dresden

Normal/Hard the AI gets 1 extra recruitment slot. Easy the AI gets the same as vanilla.

Does it continue to scale higher with VH or Legendary still, as I think it did before right?

EDIT: Oh someone beat me to it.

**Dresden** · March 05, 2014, 06:14 PM

Very Hard is 5, Legendary is 6

**LawL_LawL** · March 05, 2014, 06:18 PM

Originally Posted by Dresden

Very Hard is 5, Legendary is 6

I'm assuming these are total values, not bonuses? Easy being Base Value/3. Normal/Hard 4, thus VH 5 and Legendary 6. Very nice menu screen btw, just got 0.8 working and very grateful for the consistent content release.

**hzh** · March 05, 2014, 07:33 PM

Originally Posted by Dresden

Normal/Hard the AI gets 1 extra recruitment slot. Easy the AI gets the same as vanilla.

thx for the very quick reply. How about income bonus for AI on different difficulties?

**Dresden** · March 05, 2014, 10:22 PM

Yes, those are total values. So Legendary is 6 recruitment slots total.

For income, its 500 at Easy and +250 per difficulty after (1500 at Legendary)

**Alannon** · March 06, 2014, 11:49 AM

What of the battle difficulty? Should I play on normal to have it balanced, or hard? I remember in previous games the AI received bonuses not to its behaviour but to its unit stats, which I didn't like.

**Dresden** · March 06, 2014, 12:10 PM

The mod is basically designed around Normal battle difficulty. I know some users play it at higher difficulties, but the AI will get bonuses and it can affect the way battles play with morale and other issues.