What are the diffrents between the three difficulties?

[hongyionline]

easy ,normal , and difficult ?

 

[Maddo03]

AI smartness, damage you and your allies take and the speed of the combat raise with each setting.

 

[Yamchu]

higher ai lord troop limits (I think thats campain or AI difficulty)

their not really smarter

 

[jackx]

Also effects starting equipment and money, which I think are the only effects that can't be adjusted later via the options menu.

But since you can use a loan to finance your first trade/caravan, even the advantage of starting with 1k insteat of 100 thaler isn't that great.

 

[Proteus]

So what equipment do you get with "difficult"?

With "normal"  you get an old sword, a pistol, a sumpter horse, a bag of +4 ammunition as well as clothes and boots (with +1 if I remmeber correctly)

 

[Wheem]

So what equipment do you get with "difficult"?

With "normal"  you get an old sword, a pistol, a sumpter horse, a bag of +4 ammunition as well as clothes and boots (with +1 if I remmeber correctly)

I believe the clothing, horse, and ammunition stay the same; but for weapons, you get a Handmade Firearm and Carpenter's Axe instead of the Pistol and Simple Saber. You also get less thelars, but I don't remember the exact amounts.

 

[jackx]

Hard gives you 100 thaler, a handmade firearm and stilll a sabre of sorts (I think).
Easy will get you 1000, and a matchlock carbine.

Doesn't make much of a difference, all three sets of gear let you kite looters, and anything else is a tall order at game start,and as stated already, loans take care of the initial money issue until you get the caravans rolling...