Making the game harder

[Nick_Since_1985]

I don't want to complain but is the RS team planning to make the game harder in RS 2.0 like give a morale and chevron boost to the AI to compensate their incompetence?

[Nellup]

Which difficulty are you playing at, at H and VH battle difficulties, the AI does get a moral bonus.
Also the starting free peoples armies all have experience bonuses to try and make expansion harder to begin with. Also the AI generals are all given a fair number of trait bonuses to make them better, which the player doesn't get. Also play by the house rules, they are designed to make it harder.

What else do you think could be done?

[Octavius-Augustus]

I like RS hard as it is. Had a great time last night fighting Hannibal in Spain (he was 50 years old lol), he almost outmanuevered me on the strat map, but I won a number of important victories and took Carthago Nova. The Carthaginigans are fighting ferociously, but it's not the dumb AI from RTW and BI. Try Alex.exe for more difficulty!

[Captain Arrrgh!]

Playing the game standing on your head while inserting a screwdriver in your ear makes it immeasurably harder.

[tone]

LOL.
Certainly the plan is for it to be tough whichever faction you play. There'll be hordes more interesting free people to fight against as well as the new factions and new units and we'll make sure they don't give up with out a good fight.

[Coldcall]

After moving from RTW-RS to BI-RS i found it made the game quite a bit more difficult. First off, bridges cant be dominated as they were because the ai can cross at whatever point they want so you need to spread your forces out and hence take more casuaties holding water crossings.

I would advise the first poster to move to the BI executable or Alex executable if he has the game.

[Nick_Since_1985]

I'am asking this beacause yesterday the Darth mod came upp, suddenly I realised that I too had once played this mod a long long time ago and I rememberd the battles being extremly hard and me dying on the campaing map a couple of times... (hasn't happend since) I wonder what it was that made his campaings and battles so much harder...

[Coldcall]

I find Roman legions pretty invincible unless they get ganged up on all in the same turn. For instance the only times i break a sweat (h/vh) is when i get attacked by 3 or more full stacks successfully reinforcing.

The big advantage legions have is their initial volleys of Pila. I find my legions knock out between 20-30% of the ai just with pila. Once you've used up all the pila the game becomes far more balanced.

I find i take the most casualties once 2 or 3 stacks combine against me on the same battlefield. Sometimes its sad because each cohort can get whittled down to so few soldiers that even though you won it has come at a high cost. Also trying to retrain a devastated legion is depressing as a 10 soldier cohort with gold chevrons turns back into a green and unexperienced cohort.

Its sad to see a great legion all but wiped out. Its really hurts. I need to get out more :-)

[martyr]

attack the enemy stacks with one unit of velites

[Squid]

I don't want to complain but is the RS team planning to make the game harder in RS 2.0 like give a morale and chevron boost to the AI to compensate their incompetence?

First of all, the AI already gets significant boosts.

Second you have now posted I believe 6 posts complaining about the difficulty but not posted your settings or how you play. So I will say, stop playing on Easy/Easy and the game gets significantly harder. If you were playing on any other difficulty level you would have posted it the first 3 or 4 times you were asked.

[HMonk]

I Have to agree with SquidSK, RS is just fine the way it is. If you want it hard then come off the easy button.

[century x]

I Have to agree with SquidSK, RS is just fine the way it is. If you want it hard then come off the easy button.

I agree as well.

[Nick_Since_1985]

I have posted many times that I play on C: Hard B: Very hard...

So I will say, stop playing on Easy/Easy and the game gets significantly harder.

Wow Squid you are some kind of genius, I never tought of that, so increasing the difficulty level actually makes the game harder?

[century x]

I have posted many times that I play on C: Hard B: Very hard...



Wow Squid you are some kind of genius, I never tought of that, so increasing the difficulty level actually makes the game harder?

Talking like that is not going to get you nowhere. So i'm guessing your playing on VH/VH. Which in reality very hard setting for campaign is easier than when you put it on Hard. Due to some bug in the patching CA released.

Use the Alex.exe and maybe you will have a challenge. And if you don't still then u must be some kind of GOD player that nothing can beat you.

[Caius Antonius]

He didn't even play with Rome...how can he say the game's too easy ? And just ASSUME that it will be very easy with it anyway ?

[cherryfunk]

Play a Bosporan campaign on VH/VH...

[Nellup]

cherry - don't you mean H/VH...because of the bug and all.

[lesterthenerd]

cherry - don't you mean H/VH...because of the bug and all.

H campaign and VH battles is hardest difficulty setting i think. or is the other way around?

[cherryfunk]

Oh, right.

I'm playing a H/H Bosporan campaign and just lost 2 family members to a Free army. Damn horse archers!

[Nellup]

Oh, right.

I'm playing a H/H Bosporan campaign and just lost 2 family members to a Free army. Damn horse archers!

Yep - a mainly hoplite army versus mainly HA armies up in the steppes, very messy.

Although I found the Iberian campaign harder than the Bosporan one.