Testing the difficulty of SPQR, Lets see which is the hardest

[Bellus88]

Hey can anyone test the difficulty of SPQR and post there battle results? Use normal Legions against some Gaul or German armies and post your results here? Play 1 M/H/VH battle and compare your battle results. Do it for both pre and post marian units. It would be interesting to see the results and we would finally see which difficulty truly provides the most challenge.

[Ejergard]

Let us know what you found out

[Hesus de bodemloze]

Let us know what you found out

Indeed let us know what you found out.

Just a reminder if you really want to test this you should test it with experience as well your opponents will always have like 3 chevrons more then your own troops.

[lt1956]

This is a waste of time. I have already BETA tested Battle results. Its not a matter of more stats at higher difficulty. There are AI behavior in Campiagns also.

Yes you will lose more men in VH, duh, they are getting a +7 bonus. But If you play by house Rules and use Killsheet and garrison script you wont be able to play Hard or VH and complete a campaign. That is the point PLAYING STYLE. You play spamming Legionaries etc, then yes you can play on VH but is it harder? Imo NO its not.

[czePowerslave]

Where do I sign that?
.signed

Well said LT. See you all why I am being annoyance all the time! I play like stated as per above

[Bellus88]

Well VH/VH will provide more of a challenge even if you used house rules, to confiscate for facing stronger armies, all you would have to do use have more mercenary units in your armies, that would make up for it.

[czePowerslave]

Not really no. At some point, you will be overrun. Mercenaries are not retrainable.

[Vespasian92]

Even if you could afford all those mercenaries in addition to the massive garrison upkeep you would need to pay.

[Bellus88]

Okay so yes House rules works with M diff for battles but what about the campaigns? In VH campaigns the AI makes a lot more armies so that would make it more challenging and there would be more big epic battles.

[Bellus88]

M battle difficulty must be to easy I had 1 Triari beat 2 Gaulic Heavy Infantry, the Triai has 4 experience and the Gaulic Heavy Infantry had 2 but still, it fought off both of them. This is way to easy.

[Iberian22]

Triari is much better unit than the heaviest gallic infantry, so its normal that you win.

If you use some house rules, like 5 hastai, 5 princeps and 3 triari for legion exemple, it will be challenging than getting 10 princeps and 4 triari and on hard difficult, at the end you get an unrealistic Roman legion and AI atack taking performance drugs.

[Ciisar]

But battles in medium difficulty are not chalenge, only Hannibal is chalenge to me. Okay, I have not fought in the east yet so
I dont know how strong they are there.

[Iberian22]

I havent arrived there either, but I suppose that it isnt so easy, because if you send there 5 legions to Siria for exemple, if you lose someone you cant replace them until perhaps 15 turns (it must go to Italy for retraining it and then come back), so many of the battles are with imitation legions or auxilia, and in medium difficulty isnt so easy.

[czePowerslave]

I am not sure whether you lot understand. But in SPQR, the battles are not in dozens, but hundreds and more. If you have to fight much TOUGHER battles especially in east, you will end up pwnt. But of course, if you do not play by house rules, be on your merry way with any difficulty you wish. Its the house rules that give the game a precise challenge needed. Not the difficulty setting.

[Bellus88]

I believe house rules can be adopted even with H or VH battle difficulty and Campaign difficulty. On the subject of replenishing legions every 15 turns, one could make use of Mercenaries more in their Auxilia legions, and when they get depleted to less then 120 they can be disbanded and you can recruit more. I haven't experienced a late campaign game yet but it feels very easy and I doubt it would be any different later in the Campaign.