What Battle/Campaign difficulty should I play ?

[Mithridates II the Great]

Hi .

I've played DEI in Campaign : Normal / Battle : Hard difficulties but the game is not challenging and gets boring after a couple of turns .

What other difficulties do you suggest that don't give fictional bonuses to AI and also make the game better for me ?

[KAM 2150]

Normal campaign is too easy, take hard or very hard.

[Thairose12]

Battle: normal
Campaign: hard

[ThatWhichThinks]

I play on Battle: Normal
Campaign: Very Hard

Battle Difficulty > Normal makes unit balance really weird. For example, when I tried Very Hard battle difficulty as Epirus my armies were destroyed by Athenian levy slingers, and my elite pikemen got beaten from the front by militia hoplites. Yes, it is harder, and maybe that is the kind of challenge you are looking for? But I just find such complete imbalance annoying.

Upping the campaign difficulty while keeping battle difficulty on normal lets the AI play more aggressively and field bigger, more diverse armies. The battles are still fun, and the meta-game of empire management becomes way better. Also, if you think the game is too easy, bump the campaign difficulty to Very Hard of Legendary and play as Hayasdan (Armenia) or Carthage.

[Mesthione]

If you are a TW veteran or have just played a lot of Rome II and DEI I would do campaign VERY HARD but make sure you set the battle difficulty in-game to NORMAL. Other wise it gets really weird, as some others have suggested. By all means if you want abuse set it higher, but it becomes hard to win almost any battle even if you pull all of your best tactics and have an overwhelming advantage.

[Chris P. Bacon]

My recommendation is normal battle difficultly always but if you are playing at least a large power (ex: Rome, Carthage, Seleucid, Egypt) put the campaign difficultly on very hard.

But for factions that start out with one or two cities hard is good because it can get really annoying and it sometimes seems that on very hard the AI can just instantly replace any army you beat in which can get aggravating quickly.

[Revan The Great]

Can anyone give some insight on what specifically gets changed by increasing the campaign difficulty?

If it makes the AI field better armies, or persecute a war more aggressively, then that's fine. But I've always been afraid of bumping the difficulty up and finding myself in a world where every AI nation is implacably hostile and I'm facing war on all fronts with unreasonable diplomatic interactions.

[Evuuul]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXLXgDXRSds

[eferos93]

It is possible to change battle difficulty in online campaigns after starting it?

[A_I]

For me v hard battles are no sense...

Bonuses are ok for enemy and its fun... but my units rout very fast... even if i have advantage... queal numbers = almost every time defeat. All the time reason is the same morale...


I need to have few more units...


hard lvl of battles is too easy for me... i smash all like babies...

[Butan]

The best Battle difficulty is normal/hard, for me. More and it will play like all the AI units are on a power drug. Play with a friend in multiplayer campaign and always play as AI will also help.

For campaign difficulty, its up to you: are you ok with AI being able to recruit more, have easy public order, lots of food, less upkeep and recruitment cost? Then play on hard minimum, more if you feel its still too easy.