Should I up the campaign map difficulty?

[JDW]

I'm finding it really easy to win the game without ever fighting a single battle. I mean auto resolving is really easy to manipulate by simply having full banners of armies which is funded easily by conquering cities by auto resolving in quick accession and taking out factions without any difficulties. If you've got the coin then funding 2 or 3 campaigns isn't difficult at all and keeping those armies maxed out.

I'll lose some cities when the main armies are out fighting but then all I have to do is mass recruit in those danger areas.

The game becomes basically total war campaign map instead of the real fun of fighting battles real time. Although I find the campaign map side of things super fun it is losing its appeal now that I have no problems, I tried Britannia for a change and I've took out the English, Scots, English Rebels and Danish all with auto resolving and without any troubles at all.

So why do I auto resolve well it's difficult not to when I know the result is going to be a win for me every battle I face unless unmanned which isn't often and it'll be a village with 1 unit or something. I play at medium medium and although it makes sense to up the difficulty to hard or very hard but i do know the games diplomacy becomes unrealistic etc which puts me off.

At hard or very hard how much less effective is auto resolve so I'm forced to fight battles like even if your outman the enemy 3 to 2 or even 3 to 1 it's much harder to win via AR?

[deemarksu]

Yes i got this experience too. Byzantine Empire usually fall to me Venice in around 10-12 turn. What a poor empire ^ ^".

BTW If you like to play auto-resolve in campaign , You may like hotseat game with real human players.

[JDW]

Yes i got this experience too. Byzantine Empire usually fall to me Venice in around 10-12 turn. What a poor empire ^ ^".

BTW If you like to play auto-resolve in campaign , You may like hotseat game with real human players.

So you've came across this as well, what did you do about it and was this at medium difficulty?

I don't know what hot seat with human players means exactly, are you talking about online play?

[deemarksu]

So you've came across this as well, what did you do about it and was this at medium difficulty?

I don't know what hot seat with human players means exactly, are you talking about online play?

Actually i like to play battles myself. Sometime i just play a quick campaign with auto resolve. And yes i set the game as medium/medium. I think difficulty hard or very hard did not make AI smarter but they get bonus instead. And bonus sometime cause the problem to AI. AI almost not need to defense settlement. They always defense city or castle with 1-2 units. Then I can rush it easily. When AI lost settlement , they lost income finally they lose. BTW this is about vanilla. I think there are many mod rework AI very well.

PS. - I like Battle Axe mod.
- Hotseat = Multiplayer campaign. Play by sending save-file to another player for their turn.