Recommended Difficulty Level?

[Nerouin]

Hi,

I'm curious: what's the recommended difficulty level for RTR VII? I read through the FAQ and saw that the game was balanced in such a way that it is difficult at M/M, but I am having a very easy time thus far as Sparta. Did I read incorrectly?

Thanks.

[DukeCanada]

Sparta was designed to be relatively easy faction, its actually one of the factions we recommend for beginners. May I recommend one of the Baltic "barbarian" factions, they seem to be significantly more difficult. If you really want to play Sparta just raise the difficulty level to H/H, that should mend the problem.

Upcoming patches may adjust the difficulty level of the "easy" factions and make the AI factions more adept to expanding and war.