Difficulty Levels

[Dan113112]

I was wondering what bonuses that you or the AI get depending on the difficulty from easy to very hard. I was also wondering if any of the bonuses/stats for the difficulty levels were changed in the mod.

[Post Hoc]

5. Which difficulty setting is best?
Many prefer Hard/Hard, others prefer VH/VH, though very few play on Easy or Medium. Some have suggested that a "difficulty bug" exists, which causes Med to be harder than Hard and Very Hard to be the easiest of all. However, this 'difficulty bug' seems to be a rumor, and nothing more. The RTR Team suggests you play on whichever difficulty setting works best for you. Below are the known effects of the difficulty levels:

Battle difficulty:
Easy: +4 morale and +4 attacks to your troops.
Medium: No bonuses.
Hard: +4 morale and +4 attack to the ai troops.
Very hard: +7 morale and +7 attack to the ai troops.

Campaign difficulty: Exact effects are not known but the AI cheats on VH by getting an extra $10,000 a turn.

Note that the VII campaigns are balanced at M/M difficulty level, and are a challenge then already!

[Maurits]

I.e. Reading the faq solves many issues lol

As for your second question, we didn't change the difficulty levels themselves but we do support the AI by a money script and some other systems in order not to make it the victim of our gameplay improvements

[Caligula Caesar]

Also, the AI gets more aggressive. On VH this goes to the point of the AI being suicidal, so I usually don't recommend VH. On H it is aggressive without being unreasonable (for the AI, anyway), and I've found it is probably the best setting imo.