Tips for Legendary and very hard difficulty?

[Deputy Dean]

I've never tried to play a game on these difficulties but now I find hard too easy and want to move on. Got any tips for stating on these difficulties?

[MANWHATADONGA]

Give it a go son give it a go.Take things more slowly you have not got the same money

[-=ACED=-Gh0stWulf]

well actually he wants to build up a huge army to attack with or face the wrath of the AI and attack his first couple of enemies in like a blitz

[SuperGorp]

There are some decent guides in the workshop on the harder levels.

[Hannibal Barca]

Really not that much differencebetween Very hard and Legendary if your tactics are strong they will hold up on any level. I play as parthia on legendary and got bored after turn 120 because I came out of the box attacking Baktria which makes everyone south love me. All the little factions ally with me and we just stomp Baktria. Alliances give me a 20 proveince buffer between me and Seleucids. SO my only major concern are the Nomads but their rooster is so weak (horsearchers and axemen) My army of Horse+Camel+archers easily destorys them. By turn 100 I have about 4 whole regions, 9k gold per turn and noone really to fight. I sent 4 stacks of Cataphracts+archers to Eygpt and 3 stacks to Greece, after this point it just became repeative and boring
I had a civil war but since I constantly let my generals die in battle to avoid a huge civil war, I easily crushed them with garrison units and a few archer+slinger armies. When I reached Rome they had 2 cities and little hope, the Iceni are the major power but they are spread out so far I can easily take Europe. The whole process feels like busy work not war, take empty city , set up government and take another empty city and then repeat....boring.

[Drkilljoy91]

i would say get a full stack right out and finsh what ever war your in at the start and build up from there

[Corin17]

just focus on getting strong army's. however economy is more important, brickworks are the most useful thing ever as the greeks/succesor states
the better your economy the more expensive/bigger your armies can be, just try to get the balance and try to get non agression pacts. dont do the ting of only fighing one faction at a time as it gets boring. however only fight one BIG faction at one time ie rome ect.

[Primagen]

I have always won with weak armies and strong economy....