"Increased" amount of enemies on harder difficulties

[HeathenSW]

So for anyone wondering - it's about 30-50% increase over what you'll get on medium difficulty, if not more. In Santa Fe taking the prison on the west side of the map is kinda difficult, since it's swarming with Legion on hard, but on medium there's 1-2 squads of homies, single spider and a couple of dogs. Plus enemy reinforcements seem to spawn much slower - they attacked the prison only once (!) in the whole mission.

11th convoy has only 2 Legion tanks, not 3 as it has on Hard difficulty. A wave or rev termies from your start location does not have TOW spider and only consists on a single rev squad with miniguns and not two with other having plasma MGs.
12th convoy has only 3 tanks instead of 5 it normaly has.

Only 278 enemies killed in total on medium. It's 500+ on hard.

I played it with hard and now fooling around on medium to see the difference. So far medium is very pleasant and easy. Really want the difficulty with more enemies like on hard, but damage mitigaion like on medium.

[Thandrall]

Huh that is actually interesting. I've only ever tested things on hard, while doing my playthough on realistic, and that definitely makes me love hard so much more haha! But I guess the main thing to look at is is troop XP different between the difficulties? If not, it means hard is definitely better for XP.

Kinda makes me wanna go back to Abiquiu for even more testing, is there still going to be a tank in easy/medium difficulty? Ahh well, doing heaps of testing for New Tortuga right now.

[HeathenSW]

Originally posted by Thandrall:

Huh that is actually interesting. I've only ever tested things on hard, while doing my playthough on realistic, and that definitely makes me love hard so much more haha! But I guess the main thing to look at is is troop XP different between the difficulties? If not, it means hard is definitely better for XP...

For some reason I didn't notice the differences in XP. I only played it on hard also and thought that more enemies would mean more XP, but did Haven/Santa Fe in every difficulty now except story one and came out about the same level wise - I'd say that on higher difficulties I got less XP, but that's probably due to casualties and needing to rotate thus feeding more XP to allys.

So I really am not sure now. I'm NOT testing Tortuga on realistic, thank you, I still need my nerves :D But the tank is always there in Abiquiu, yeah.

[Falcon_BR]

I play on hard, on my second playthrought, now that I know the game better.
But men, facing 4 legion tanks at the same time on the last two waves of santa fe, placed all my skills on the test! I Had to hold fire with all my units while the abrams and the bradley moved to assist in one wave to the other, and alpha strike the from all sides with atgm, rocket squads while the abrams and bradley assisted.
New tortuga also have A LOT more enemies getting up to face the mayor was much harder and I think there are enemies in all buildings. There are also more arty that I am glad I could snipe with the bradley ATGM, but he died doind that. Even with reactive armor.

[Thandrall]

Originally posted by Falcon_BR:

I play on hard, on my second playthrought, now that I know the game better.
But men, facing 4 legion tanks at the same time on the last two waves of santa fe, placed all my skills on the test! I Had to hold fire with all my units while the abrams and the bradley moved to assist in one wave to the other, and alpha strike the from all sides with atgm, rocket squads while the abrams and bradley assisted.
New tortuga also have A LOT more enemies getting up to face the mayor was much harder and I think there are enemies in all buildings. There are also more arty that I am glad I could snipe with the bradley ATGM, but he died doind that. Even with reactive armor.

My advice with the new tortuga arty is use the legion tank to well tank them. Or you can use buildings as well, till they run out of ammo.

[Falcon_BR]

Originally posted by Thandrall:

Originally posted by Falcon_BR:

I play on hard, on my second playthrought, now that I know the game better.
But men, facing 4 legion tanks at the same time on the last two waves of santa fe, placed all my skills on the test! I Had to hold fire with all my units while the abrams and the bradley moved to assist in one wave to the other, and alpha strike the from all sides with atgm, rocket squads while the abrams and bradley assisted.
New tortuga also have A LOT more enemies getting up to face the mayor was much harder and I think there are enemies in all buildings. There are also more arty that I am glad I could snipe with the bradley ATGM, but he died doind that. Even with reactive armor.

My advice with the new tortuga arty is use the legion tank to well tank them. Or you can use buildings as well, till they run out of ammo.

I didn't know I could call more reinforcements after the first one, if I do a third playthrough, I will just take my two 155mm arty and bomb them into oblivion