best difficulty settings

**Hellskey** · April 01, 2009, 06:10 PM

what is the most optimal difficulty settings? which is the most fun?

**realms18** · April 01, 2009, 07:16 PM

That is a matter of debate and your personal skill...Normal provides no bonuses to AI troops, but the AI isn't too bright on any difficulty setting. Hard and V Hard provide what is sometimes seemingly unfair morale bonuses on the enemy...Try a 1 unit of infantry vs one unit of infantry battle against the AI on harder difficulty, the computer may win or lose, but you will suffer severe casualties....

**Hellskey** · April 01, 2009, 08:01 PM

what about campaign difficulty?

**Luganoft** · April 01, 2009, 08:06 PM

A commonly used difficulty is Campaign VH and Battle H.
This makes the campaign game slow down a fair bit while the enemy dont have abnormal bonuses to morale in battles.

**blank** · April 02, 2009, 05:10 AM

An interesting fact is that CA for some reason refuses to tell us what exactly the difficulty settings do. We know they give some stat/money bonuses, but nobody is 100% sure.

**Skeleton Of The West** · April 02, 2009, 05:15 AM

Im looking for the max challenge in TW series, so i play on campaign VH and battle VH.

Originally Posted by blank

An interesting fact is that CA for some reason refuses to tell us what exactly the difficulty settings do. We know they give some stat/money bonuses, but nobody is 100% sure.

I noticed that in campaign VH the AI has huge armies and they keep them coming, even though that faction dont have so much money. It makes units all the time, even if it has money or not.

**Osiris1975** · April 02, 2009, 07:56 AM

I play VH battles because I want the maximum tactical difficulty on the battlefield, but I set the campaign map to H because I figured CA probably encoded some unrealistic zergfest at VH on campaign map mode in which every nation would decide to go to war for me simply because I set the campaign map to VH

**Homeros** · April 02, 2009, 09:02 AM

I play VH VH when primarily fighting on land, I switch to VH (campaign) H (battle) when naval warfare is required. VH naval battles are impossible to win when both fleets are more or less equal.

The reason I love TW games is the ability to compensate being outnumbered - tactical superiority (fighting real-time battles). On VH autoresolve leads to better results than fighting it out manually.