How do you play?

I just switched to a medium/ hard campaign and it is definitely a challenge. Prussia fought back with 4 full stacks smashing straight though my offense and into the French Interior. Needless to say I had just fended off a full stack British expeditionary force (Impressed with NTW AI) and so I had to quit... Do you Y'all play on Medium/Medium or medium/hard and what are your experiences????

I usually play on hard/hard or very hard/hard. It's a good challenge, a lot more battles too.

People always say that, but I find it too hard when the AI has 4 full stacks and your economy can hardly pay for 3, spread out over europe?

Originally Posted by Roderick Ponce Von Fontlebotto

People always say that, but I find it too hard when the AI has 4 full stacks and your economy can hardly pay for 3, spread out over europe?

Yeah especcially in empire that was a problem, certainly with the marathas.

I have only played the europe campaign in easy, to get a feel. I'm busy now with the peninsular campaign on medium/medium. medium/medium is my standard, but i might change it later too medium/hard

EDIT: maybe you could add a poll

Good idea on the pole but how do i do it? Got it!

Originally Posted by eXistenZ

I have only played the europe campaign in easy, to get a feel. I'm busy now with the peninsular campaign on medium/medium. medium/medium is my standard, but i might change it later too medium/hard

By medium/hard i mean hardbattle difficulty, i notice it's the other way around in your poll. Cause in the game you always select the campaign difficulty first

Originally Posted by Roderick Ponce Von Fontlebotto

People always say that, but I find it too hard when the AI has 4 full stacks and your economy can hardly pay for 3, spread out over europe?

That's exactly the good part. In medium/medium you can easily send a single stack per enemy nation, allowing you to easily spread through Europe in every direction without much trouble. It's one of the factors that makes the campaign so boring. It's just a matter of time until you steamroll everyone.

When each enemy nation can commit several stacks to defense, you need to concentrate your troops, slowing your advance considerably, and forcing you to also defend and to be careful with diplomacy (to avoid being at war with the whole world on all sides), which ensures that the campaign will remain fun for a while longer.

VH/VH Allways have, allawys will.

I always play on normal/normal.

I play on hard/hard. It's quite easy for me to win battles against the AI unless they have 1.5 times the number of troops or more. The hardest thing about playing at this difficulty is the sheer quantity of troops the AI can produce, they must get reduced upkeep or large income bonuses or something. Even nations consisting of only a single region seem capable of fielding 2 full stack armies. I also think it is pretty much impossible to cripple an enemy nation through economic means. I have been contemplating trying my hand at very hard/very hard but am reluctant to do so because I've heard that the AI units just get rediculous morale bonuses and it doesn't improve its tactics at all.

Originally Posted by Hurricane Brad

I play on hard/hard. It's quite easy for me to win battles against the AI unless they have 1.5 times the number of troops or more. The hardest thing about playing at this difficulty is the sheer quantity of troops the AI can produce, they must get reduced upkeep or large income bonuses or something. Even nations consisting of only a single region seem capable of fielding 2 full stack armies. I also think it is pretty much impossible to cripple an enemy nation through economic means. I have been contemplating trying my hand at very hard/very hard but am reluctant to do so because I've heard that the AI units just get rediculous morale bonuses and it doesn't improve its tactics at all.

I just read your comment and realised I pretty much copied you lol :]

Originally Posted by Hurricane Brad

I play on hard/hard. It's quite easy for me to win battles against the AI unless they have 1.5 times the number of troops or more. The hardest thing about playing at this difficulty is the sheer quantity of troops the AI can produce, they must get reduced upkeep or large income bonuses or something. Even nations consisting of only a single region seem capable of fielding 2 full stack armies. I also think it is pretty much impossible to cripple an enemy nation through economic means. I have been contemplating trying my hand at very hard/very hard but am reluctant to do so because I've heard that the AI units just get rediculous morale bonuses and it doesn't improve its tactics at all.

basically, anything above normal and the ai cheating becomes most apparent. the ridiculous stats and huge economic and military bonuses compensate for lack of real ai. i mean, what can they do? they field 3 full stacks against me and i decimate them due to their complete incompetence at battlefield tactics. so naturally, they field 12 full stacks against me instead of just making their battlefield behavior more intelligent.

I play normal/normal. As mentioned in this post, yes it is easy and only a matter of time before you dominate Europe, but I think its so retarded how they get loads of cash a turn (even when I blockade their ports and raid all their towns) and that the minor nations with only one city can afford 3 full stacked armies. I guess thats the point of having hard, it makes it hard!

Very hard/Hard, I play battles harder than campaign; grinding CAI armies is boring, but the BAI does need the boni to stand a chance.

I play very hard/very hard. not that I ever win a campaign, I just think its more fun and I like to challenge myself and see how well I go.

delete this post please

VH/VH,

M/H when i first play but after a few hours its H/VH

VH/VH It's what real men play/

Ive completed every campaign on VH/VH except austria. Austria is really hard because just as you think you're getting the better of the french and ottomans, prussia and russia turn judas and you have the whole of europe marching on vienna from 4 directions.