increase difficulty

[Dyon]

Hi, is there an easy way to increase the difficulty other than giving the ai money bonuses? i did that but the ai doesn't seem to be able to even spend the money and after 10 turns has 300k+ gold. can i change their spending policy so they atleast use the money? i dont want anything that increases the wait time in between turns like the garrison script.

[Scharfrichter]

you can add starting enemy armies, or give them more settlements if you wish.
furthermore you can increase enemy units stats, so that orc raiders have 12 attack instead of 7

[DrDragun]

A good mod for making the bad guys tougher is MOS, which will optionally script special armies to Mordor, Isengard, OoG, etc at regular intervals. In addition to everything else that MOS offers.