RECOMMENDED DIFFICULTY

Hi everyone,

what is the recommended difficulty settings for grand campaign

Hard. French are OP and dashing, you should destroy everything as them

Originally Posted by Zephyrus203

Hi everyone,

what is the recommended difficulty settings for grand campaign

It's mostly relevant to what faction you're playing.

Like the guy above me said, the French really are OP, basically from the beginning of the campaign to the end. On Hard you can pretty much steamroll through Austria and Prussia and just play games with Britain and Russia until you're bored, and on Very Hard you get the same thing but the pace is kind of slow, albeit battles are more frequent and challenging (sorta).

Great Britain - Very Hard, otherwise the game isn't even really fun. You basically have an impenetrable fortress from which to build stacks of armies funded by stacks of trade ships monopolizing every trade node in the Atlantic. On H and VH, the French fleet is a tad more aggressive and go after your ports early on, but that's easily remedied and discontinued completely by occupying their northern ports indefinitely.

Russia - Very Hard, because you've got basically the same situation as you have with England, having your HQ and unit factories way off to the West, where any attacking forces can be seen approaching and can be dealt with before they reach your cities.

Austria/Prussia - Hard, only because they're both in the middle of what will inevitably turn into the staging ground for the entire campaign. Time and time again you're facing some sort of problem that must be dealt with before it costs you the entire campaign. As Austria, you have to bare the sheer weight of the initial French onslaught, which isn't terribly hard to fend off, but gets really old, really quickly. As Prussia, you face almost certain invasion from Russia if you don't ally yourselves with them from the get-go, so you end up fighting the French, and from the first few turns the campaign is basically set for you.