Campaign Difficulty Question

**manabalu** · January 15, 2011, 02:10 PM

Hi,
I need your advise. At the moment I play a Early Era Campaign (6.4) with the holy Roman Empire at VH/VH.
I'm currently at turn 70 and every turn is much of stress (10-30 min every turn).
All in all I like the difficulty, because I never felt myself overpowered so far. But there is something that really annoys me. No matter how hard I try, the enemy always have better or equal upgraded units. It would be nice, if there are some battles I have the superior troops (better armor, higher tier, etc).

My Question is: What is the difference between the campaign difficulty levels? Will playing on hard solve my problem or will I be an unbeatable power after ~50 rounds?

Thanks in advance.

**newt** · January 15, 2011, 02:50 PM

They get more money based on campaign difficulty, and also generals get better stats.

The only way you are going to get better troops is to disable RR in setup. With RR on, you have to wait until a certain year before better troops can be trained.

**Tears of Destiny** · January 15, 2011, 03:13 PM

To clarify, the AI has to follow the rules for getting better troops as well.
It really depends on how you manage your economy and different aspects of your Faction, when it comes to how well you can compete upgrade/tech wise with the AI.

I personally find myself getting the advanced troops at a comparable rate that they do, and sometimes sooner.

**Spoon** · January 16, 2011, 07:56 AM

Originally Posted by Tears of Destiny

To clarify, the AI has to follow the rules for getting better troops as well.

I'm playing HRE VH/VH early campaign and on turn 10 rebels got feudal knights. So are rebels excluded for these rules?

**Fred Putz** · January 16, 2011, 01:59 AM

Originally Posted by manabalu

What is the difference between the campaign difficulty levels? Will playing on hard solve my problem or will I be an unbeatable power after ~50 rounds?

No idea what the changes are exactly. I go for H/VH most of the time, because my feeling says that the AI diplomacy is a bit more reasonable on hard. There´s of course a (very small) difference in the money the AI gets - so they will recruit slighty less troops on hard.

btw: 10-30 min per turn are very fast. I need 10 min - 1 hour for a battle and if there are 5 or 6 in one turn... Sometimes i need two days for one turn.

**johnny_b_good** · January 16, 2011, 06:25 AM

Wow 1hour.definitely Im playing on M/M

I dont have so much free time...

**k/t** · January 16, 2011, 10:36 AM

Yeah, otherwise they would be too weak later on, when they'd spawn with early units and you'd have much stronger ones.

**Ferdiad** · January 16, 2011, 02:32 PM

I always play VH/VH so the AI has a slim hope of victory

**DedBludUK** · January 16, 2011, 03:17 PM

Im not sure if ive done something totaly right or this is a mistake. But i played with grym reality and was enjoying it, until i had about 2 turns with 500ish money and then it kept going down into negatives again and i couldnt build anything for ages. So decided to play as France without grym reality. Well, now i cant seem to spend the money quick enough- im on turn 20 or something and im ending turns with 11,000! I mean, is 6.4 not playable with bygs grim reality because of them sapping all that money etc? It just seems that i have far too much money and continuing to play like this feels like im cheating and makes it a bit boring.

**Ferdiad** · January 16, 2011, 04:11 PM

1)Bribe factions to fight each other
2)Biuld the most expensive stuff you can
3)Give money to the Pope
4)Teleport generals around the map, hiring mercemarie armys
5)Fill up your recruitement and building pools always.

**Heskey** · January 18, 2011, 08:36 AM

Originally Posted by Ferdiad

1)Bribe factions to fight each other
2)Biuld the most expensive stuff you can
3)Give money to the Pope
4)Teleport generals around the map, hiring mercemarie armys
5)Fill up your recruitement and building pools always.

Haha!

**k/t** · January 16, 2011, 10:49 PM

There are special strategies for using BGR.

**DedBludUK** · January 18, 2011, 07:30 AM

I managed a slowly productive game with BGR, but the fact i'd go so long sometimes without being able to do anything kinda ruined the game for me. One more question is the default 1TPY? And if so, is it possible to change to 2 TPY and have it save compatible? Dont want to start AGAIN on 6.4.

**newt** · January 18, 2011, 09:40 AM

Originally Posted by DedBludUK

I managed a slowly productive game with BGR, but the fact i'd go so long sometimes without being able to do anything kinda ruined the game for me. One more question is the default 1TPY? And if so, is it possible to change to 2 TPY and have it save compatible? Dont want to start AGAIN on 6.4.

You must start a new game.