Confused by Difficulty

**Kolaris8472** · June 17, 2008, 06:06 PM

I went ahead and put my newest campaign battle difficulty on VH...swayed by what the FAQ up above this thread said, that it increased the intelligence of the battle AI but left stats alone...

However, its pretty obvious that this isn't the case...units of my spear militia are losing to peasants (and not just because of the difference in unit size, they're actually taking more casualties...on my own walls, no less) and my units are not hesitating to turn tail and run even when I'm winning.

So this campaign has seemingly been ruined by this misinformation. I don't want my uber units getting slaughtered by something that looks like it was fresh from the farm plow...it may be a challenge, but its just silly.

So, finally, my question - can you change the battle difficulty mid-through a campaign?

**cfmonkey45** · June 17, 2008, 06:30 PM

Unfortunately, no. However, I do think that this might not be because of the difficulty. In seiges, peasants are notorious for being uber, because when they get boxed in, they just swarm over their enemies due to sheer numbers and due to the fact that they are isolated from any negative morale sources. It's probably just the circumstances in which the battle was fought.

**The Noble Lord** · June 17, 2008, 06:39 PM

So, finally, my question - can you change the battle difficulty mid-through a campaign?

Hi,

No, I dont think so. Similar thing happened to me and I had to start campaign all over again. It was in RTW:BI.
Sorry, u will have to start your campaign again

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CHEERS

**SoulBreaker360** · June 17, 2008, 06:41 PM

you can change it there is this program you download and change your savegames but I forgot the name of it now....

**Theseus1234** · June 17, 2008, 07:10 PM

do you speak of the MedManager?
it lets you change stuff, but i have never gotten it to work...

**Kolaris8472** · June 17, 2008, 07:17 PM

Well if I was mistaken, then I have no problem finishing this campaign.

However, just to be sure, I did a custom battle on VH settings, my peasants were upgraded 1 armor and 1 experience against the AI's vanilla peasants, and my peasants lost handily. So apparently some stat enhancement for the AI is going on

**Queen Annes Revenge** · June 17, 2008, 11:21 PM

I think the AI might get morale bonuses or something. If it's an attack/defense bonus, it's nowhere near as significant as in RTW. Playing RTW on VH makes me incredibly irate as my Hastati can get routed in 3 seconds by Warband in an isolated 1v1 situation. With a good general in M2TW, you can win these isolated 1v1 infantry battles on VH with inferior troops.

**Viking Prince** · June 18, 2008, 01:44 AM

Two quick points:
1) As difficulty goes up, the AI gains morale

2) Peasants move/animate much quicker than other units. Add armor to the onther units and they also move slower. Use two hands to wield a weapon and slower again.

Watch the peasants work over a noble bodyguard up close. A cav will be swinging a sword and toasting a peasand ant two other peasants will be stabbing the horse three times in the same time frame. With those odds, the cav unit will be going down.

**Monsieur Alphonse** · June 18, 2008, 09:08 PM

Do you have a patched game, because only version 1.2 has fixed the shield bug (= shield value subtracted of defense value).

According to the experts the AI has always the same moral and fatigue. Your own units will have the same fatigue and morale as the AI's on VH.

**Viking Prince** · June 22, 2008, 05:29 AM

Originally Posted by Monsieur Alphonse

Do you have a patched game, because only version 1.2 has fixed the shield bug (= shield value subtracted of defense value).

According to the experts the AI has always the same moral and fatigue. Your own units will have the same fatigue and morale as the AI's on VH.

I stand corrected from what I previously read. I trust your judgement.