Campaign Difficulties?

[TheGoldElite]

Hey I'm doing my first playthrough at the moment, and I'm at 1500 days or so. I'm a vassal of the khergit khanate, and I own shariz ,Reyv-something, and durquba. At the moment we've annhialated the vaegirs and sarranids, but their vassals still hang around causing trouble, as they do. In any case I set all the difficulties to normal, so I can get a balanced game, where I'm not plowing through everyone on easy mode. It made the early start very tough, but now It's getting a bit too easy. My army is 70%Lancers 30% Veteran Horse archers. This means that I can pick and choose all of my fights with a very fast army, and with 100 I can easily take on 100 enemies with almost no losses, 150 is easy, 200 can wear on abit if they have alot of elite troops, but still safe, and 250 seems to be a fair fight these days.

TL;DR-
So I was wondering what effect it would have if I turned up the campaign difficulty to hard? Would all the armies grow larger or something? Is it purely AI changes or do all the lords get cheats like more money and troops etc, because I hate those kind of games, were it's just a case of your the only one smart enough to train your troops up, while everyone else just gets steroid injections of money and troops :/

If that's the case I'll just try a harder realm to fight for, I'm assuming Khergits are the easiest, given they use all cavalry, so they can pick their fights and outrun everyone, I might try Nords or Vaegirs, once this one reaches a suitable conclusion.

 

[Captain_Octavius]

Campaign difficulty increases the quality of troops of Lords and garrisons and makes them replenish lost troops faster. I think the highest campaign difficulty is kinda fair though. The player can have companions with lots of trainer, which ensures you always have top tier armies. It's only fair the AI has the same in my opinion. The player also has Surgery, which compensates for the somewhat lower replenish rate.

 

[TheGoldElite]

If it only increases the quality and replen rates then that is totally fine by me, so long as my Khergit Alies get the same boost I'll give it a go and hope the change isn't overly drastic, I just want to play a game where I'm not supergod of doom, which is what really attracted me to this game, though there are some things such as being the only person with the power to take on bandit strongholds....

Thanks for the info

 

[Lord Brutus]

Actually, Khergit troops are not the strongest, so if you can win with them, you can pretty much win with any faction, you just need to find the tactics that work.

 

[TheGoldElite]

Oh I know they arent the strongest, but on the campaign map, speed means they get to pick unfair fights, fleeing from bigger armies, but chasing down the smaller ones. That said they don't do amazingly well in siege defense, but they are okay. On the field they seem to decimate all, With the notable exception of Mamlukes, who are very very tough. I must admit I have personally dispatched well over a thousand men, nevermind my army, so I probably count as something like a 1/3 of my faction strength. This should decrease abit on hard difficulty....

 

[Noudelle]

Hey I'm doing my first playthrough at the moment, and I'm at 1500 days or so. I'm a vassal of the khergit khanate, and I own shariz ,Reyv-something, and durquba. At the moment we've annhialated the vaegirs and sarranids, but their vassals still hang around causing trouble, as they do. In any case I set all the difficulties to normal, so I can get a balanced game, where I'm not plowing through everyone on easy mode. It made the early start very tough, but now It's getting a bit too easy. My army is 70%Lancers 30% Veteran Horse archers. This means that I can pick and choose all of my fights with a very fast army, and with 100 I can easily take on 100 enemies with almost no losses, 150 is easy, 200 can wear on abit if they have alot of elite troops, but still safe, and 250 seems to be a fair fight these days.

TL;DR-
So I was wondering what effect it would have if I turned up the campaign difficulty to hard? Would all the armies grow larger or something? Is it purely AI changes or do all the lords get cheats like more money and troops etc, because I hate those kind of games, were it's just a case of your the only one smart enough to train your troops up, while everyone else just gets steroid injections of money and troops :/

If that's the case I'll just try a harder realm to fight for, I'm assuming Khergits are the easiest, given they use all cavalry, so they can pick their fights and outrun everyone, I might try Nords or Vaegirs, once this one reaches a suitable conclusion.

wait what? thats not hard at all if you set campaign difficulty to poor      set it to normal and youll see. but i always play on normal everywhere

 

[Captain_Octavius]

Rather set it to Good than Normal. At Poor you're mostly fighting recruits.

 

[Noudelle]

Rather set it to Good than Normal. At Poor you're mostly fighting recruits.

good i mean... wasnt the highest setting normal though?

 

[DarkShogun417]

Rather set it to Good than Normal. At Poor you're mostly fighting recruits.

good i mean... wasnt the highest setting normal though?

no, the difficulties are poor,normal, good.

 

[TheGoldElite]

Heey, it was set to normal when I was doing that, not poor Well it's set to good now and it's a bit tougher, but I'm keeping the nords on the back foot, so I'm keeping their armies down with no chance of recruiting xD. But that means the rhodoks are regrouping and I haven't heard from them in weeks :S

 

[Captain_Octavius]

Heey, it was set to normal when I was doing that, not poor Well it's set to good now and it's a bit tougher, but I'm keeping the nords on the back foot, so I'm keeping their armies down with no chance of recruiting xD. But that means the rhodoks are regrouping and I haven't heard from them in weeks :S

Prepare for a massive army of Sergeants and Sharpshooters then. You can beat them in the open field if you scatter their infantry enough, but anywhere else they'll rape you.

 

[TheGoldElite]

Oh joy, I think I'll pick my fights carefully then :S Let my allies take the brunt of it, hopefully shariz will last with 400 men, Durquba is garrisoned with only 180ish :S

 

[JosieJ]

Prepare for a massive army of Sergeants and Sharpshooters then. You can beat them in the open field if you scatter their infantry enough, but anywhere else they'll rape you.

That's my strategy: at all costs, catch Rhodoks in the open field.  Keep beating them in the field and they won't  be able to muster anything but lower-tier units.  In open field battles, my lancers can mow even sergeants and sharpies down with ease; sieges are considerably more gruesome!

 

[TheGoldElite]

Haha yeah I just found their army, 500 strong but not many elite troops, divide and conquered them all so it's all good for now Back to the Nordic Front