Difficulty Level

[pnic101]

I just installed DarthMod 7.5, and am really enjoying it. I am curious as to what difficulty level it is best played on. I prefer levels that do not give the AI arbitrary bonuses, but actually make it smarter.

[Shaggy1973]

Medium medium is the only one that doesnt give any bonuses to the ai or yourself. However, on medium certain things dont occur, like rebels will never attack your cities. I suggest playing on hard hard for a good challenge and the ai doesnt get much bonuses.

[Grand Duke Vytautas]

Yeah, I agree with Shagy - h/h is the best difficulty for me. I'm currently playin as Carthage and can say the AI is very aggressive and attacks with huge armies, you cant just relax fighting 4 fronts lol (the AI ganged up on me ) while on the bf it gets only small bonuses, but is more smarter than medium level.

[DARTH VADER]

For hard core players ...use Hard/ Very hard battles df setting. = REAL challenge (I play with this)

[pnic101]

So does a Hard or Very Hard setting for Battles make the AI better, or just give bonuses, or both?

[DARTH VADER]

Both are used. So you have to be prepared for DarthMod AI too !

[pnic101]

Thanks a lot!

[Bardo]

Many players don't play VH battles because this affects balance between units, but IMO the same unbalance happens when your army has a general with high command or units with high experience while AI fights without general or unexperienced units.
I think that AI bonus in VH works fine compensating the habitual lack of command in AI armies. I find VH much more challenging and units are still well balanced (except if your army has no general and AI has a good one, then be prepare for defeat :wink: ).

[Razunter]

VH/VH... Too easy...
No problems with conquering world at all...
In all mods.

P.S. I think the best use of diplomats is offering "Trade Rights" - all other options I'm not using at all...
Same with forts and watch towers - they not needed...

HM... Why I'm winning??