battle dificulty

[Gongo80]

Hi, i'm new of this game, really wonderful

my question is simple: i read ingame that the battle difficulty suggested is "normal"

i'm playing at that level and seems a bit easy, but it could be that the enemy force was weak

at which difficulty do you play? i mean the majority of people

thx

[Dead*Man*Wilson]

I usually play normal. Hard at the most.

Usually campaign on hard.

[bibs]

The way I see it if you make the campaign difficult you will automatically have tougher battles, since the enemy will have a stronger army and you will have a weaker one. Keeps things interesting. I started on normal but now I think I can deal with hard campaign difficulty. Unless you are a genius it will take you a while to understand how buildings/economy/province management works. I think I played over 100 hours and I'm still finding out new stuff. The guides are OK but insufficient

[popovic]

I`d reccomend at least Hard for campaign. If you don`t mind a bit more challenge, I`d even propose Very Hard to most players.

P.S. This is mostly according to my experience with DeI 1.1. Some stuff changed in 1.2, and I haven`t tested them yet.

[Dresden]

Campaign difficulty really matters now in 1.2 so just be aware of that, its very different from 1.1.

[Gongo80]

thanks
for campaign difficulty i play very hard (not legendary cause i don't like battle realism)

maybe i'll try hard for battles.....i played very hard but epirus kicked my a.. a few time with peasant too against my triarii :-(
thanks for answer, great mod

[gornoviceanu]

My suggestion is always keep battle difficulty at normal. Why? Because on hard or above the AI gets bonuses to his troops. That means that, artificially, the AI's levy spearmen will beat the crap out of your legionnaires. That's gamebreaking for me

If you feel like the game is too easy, as others mentioned, try hard on campaign difficulty.

Another suggestion would be to try and play historical, for example: a Roman stack needs to have a maximum of 50% Romans and the rest auxiliaries.

[Gongo80]

oh yes, i agreed, i don't want to see levy spearmen kill my triarii
however, i play already to very difficult campaign.....

thanks for reply, now i know that normal battle difficulty is ok.

this mod is a masterpiece made from on of the worst game of total war.. i took rome 2 and played 2 hours

[KAM 2150]

In 1.2 release I changed stat scale a bit so there should not be as big difference in favour of AI in stats bonuses as it was in 1.1

[Gongo80]

good to know