Recommended difficulty

[juanji15]

Greetings from Canada ,

Ive been waiting for RTR 7 since it was first announced i dont even remember how long ago lol, so now thats finally released i havent been able to stop playing it. I love all the new things that have been implemented in this mod and the battles are both challenging and highly addictive.

Although i keep wondering what is the best or "recommended" difficulty setting to play with in RTR7? As far as now ive only played VH/VH which makes the whole game extremely challenging and fun, but also its kind of unhistorical as almost every empire i encounter tries to kill me. also in battle 2 equally strong band will fight, and most of the time ill end up losing. i know this happens to give the enemy units a boost to make up for the lack of tactic maneuvers, but im wondering if somehow the improvement of the AI also makes them more tactically based.

In H/VH ive seen that empires are usually more "realistic", not going to war with you every other turn, and they accept treaties more willingly than other difficulties. Anyway i just want to know from the creators point of view which should be the preferred difficulty for this game?

[mcantu]

units stats were balanced on M but i like H/H so that the AI factions are a little more active on the campaign map

[AntigonosDoson]

I play on H campaign and VH battles. It becomes really difficult then and Spartan hoplites are almost immortal :-)

[Anibal at portas]

a question,the realistic difficulty level is medium/medium?,the AI units without stats bonuses and money,thanks.

[DeWitt8]

VH campaign is bugged afaik, so H would be the hardest campaign setting. This is only about money the AI gets I think.

For battle: VH is annoying, M too easy but realistic, so I take the middle...to counter some AI shortcomings.

[juanji15]

I havent been tested the H difficulty in the campaign map, ill try it as soon as i can. Hopefully rival factions wont be so easy to push around and taken over . I would rather have a simpler campaign where factions act more realistic than super aggressive nations that will fight you to the death for no reason.

For battle i guess M would be the most "realistic" but the battles would be won too easily because of th AI lack of complex tactical understanding.

Yeah VH is very annoying when encountaring elite or unique units. It takes a good portion of your army to bring them down and even some back up just in case your 4 greek hoplites won't take down those cursed spartans!!!