Heartbroken about M2TW

[Llanowar]

From many of the threads that I have read, people seem consider the game hard and they build up huge armies and vast sums of florins. I beat it easily on VH/VH with a daily turn economy of 5500 (average), and didn't even build up full armies. I completed around 90% of my missions, and didn't find a single hard aspect in the game! It was extremely easy to conquer my enemies, even when I was heavily outnumbered. Also, through diplomacy I managed to have several factions pay me huge sums of money, OVER AND OVER AGAIN, because they wanted a ceasefire, BUT within the next turn or two they would just attack me again, and the cycle would continue.

Another issue, the strategic aspect of the game isn't much to behold, starting formations are important, and you do have to know some basic factors about combat, but about mid-battle the fighting turns into a massive blob, unless I happen to try out a fun strategy or something. Just to enjoy the battles I sometimes just set my army to be vastly inferior to the enemy force, but most of the time I still manage to utterly destroy them! Every time if the enemy is besieging me I win because they use stupid tactics like marching their whole army behind the battering ram where my archers can just massacre half of them before they break through the gate; also another glitch I have found is that when the enemy has any siege equipment (ex: catapult, ballista, trebuchet) they continously fire it at my walls until they run out (except for the Mongols which seem to have some brains), and STILL sometimes they just stand there like fools and don't do anything which forces me to sally forth.

I play the SS 4.1 Mod for M2TW, and I am wondering if Kingdoms fixes some of these problems, such as: balancing the diplomacy, giving the AI atleast some brains when it comes to battles, etc. If not, are there any modifications that have come out that have fixed these problems and have made the game more difficult? Or am I doomed to wait till Empire TW and see if its harder/better.

[Llanowar]

I have come to the point where I just want to break the disc in half... Lol.

To add to my list of complaints/issues: I have found when I engage an enemy only around 20 units fight and the rest bulk up, and do absolutely nothing.

[Theseus1234]

you should probably use the "edit" button if you want to add more

my friend, you have now come to a point in which you will become terribly addicted...not to the vanilla game, but to mods, like Stainless Steel if you have kingdoms or Broken Crescent

basically, if you though the game was easy, get mods that are either total conversion or just change the AI, like Lusted's battle AI and campaign AI

[Prince_of_Macedon]

From many of the threads that I have read, people seem consider the game hard and they build up huge armies and vast sums of florins. I beat it easily on VH/VH with a daily turn economy of 5500 (average), and didn't even build up full armies. I completed around 90% of my missions, and didn't find a single hard aspect in the game! It was extremely easy to conquer my enemies, even when I was heavily outnumbered.

If you think you're really good, then why don't you play online? Campaign-exclusive players always find themselves lacking when fighting against a human opponent for the first time.

[Surgeon]

The DarthMod also has some nice battlefield AI.

[Wheelchair]

5500 a turn? Lightweight

I Can easily get 55'000 a turn before Gun powder

Thats with around 3 standing armies.

[Incontinenta Buttox]

You need a good mod my friend.

Try "Broken Crescent" or "Grand Campaign Mod".

[Viking Prince]

I play the SS 4.1 Mod for M2TW, and I am wondering if Kingdoms fixes some of these problems, such as: balancing the diplomacy, giving the AI atleast some brains when it comes to battles, etc. If not, are there any modifications that have come out that have fixed these problems and have made the game more difficult? Or am I doomed to wait till Empire TW and see if its harder/better.

I would consider the game fully patched with the Retrofit Mod and 1.5 on Kingdoms. If your question really pertains to SS, I would check the forum section for that.

I am not certain what you mean by 5500 per turn. To end the game it would be impossible to have only this for income, but net after cued builds can be 0 for what its worth.

Is the game easy? After you figure out the challanges, yes. You can also impose your own constraints on your own play. I try not to sack, end the combat when the computer offers, and do not play to the weakness of the AI if at all possible. It is still fun and differant each time.

As someone suggested, you can use any of the many hosted mods for variations. Create your own modifications to the code if you like. Personally, I'm still happy with Retrofit and Kingdoms.

If none of this works, well you can stop playing once you lose interest.