CHALLENGE? AI, speed, longevity, difficulty, etc.

[OwedEvil]

Anyone know of a mod that actually makes Rome 2 hard? I am talking about HARDCORE difficulty, where you actually have a chance to lose a war with someone. Even a chance to lose the campaign. Something that makes speed slow so you cant rush cities, battle slow so there's time for tactics, the AI (at least CAI) more challenging, etc.

If anyone knows of anything, feel free to post.

[Spool]

Divide et Impera can be pretty tough on H/VH, it has longer battles battles and there is a reduced army movement submod that you can get for it.

[OwedEvil]

I play DeI on Legendary, actually. All i did was wait around and tech up to medium inf and wait for the AI to empty out their provincial capitals. They were still using light inf mostly, was utterly no challenge at all. I wish there was a submod to make it more difficult.

[Darth Walrus]

Every complex AI has its weakness, DeI makes the game much harder than the vanilla for casual playing, but if you figure out the mechanics a pick a right faction, you are pretty much sorted.

[easytarget]

Threads like this make me laugh.

[Raoule]

Hello^^ Unless u could try out some mods which more or less boost the AI factions more u may just need to restrict urself... 3 tips: Dont attack those empty capitals and other towns its just the point which make u op vs other factions. 2nd: Its fun to restrict urself to only be able to conquer regions where ur culture dominates.Not just kill all and plant big army there and kill rebels 20 turns. last and ofc best one: declare war on all,turtle urself to at max 3-4 provinces and w8 200 turns to let other factions get stronger. and btw,dont trade,dont ally or satrap ANYONE. That should give u a hard time.I did so and my campaign is on fire now,cant even leave Italy anymore^^ Everybody allied and sent multiple stacks,no levy bs ( Parthian expanded to balkan and hired german berserkers^^ for example) best ones fully upgraded and chevroned.

Have fun and feel free for more tips,i use plenty of those anti game breakers

[danny]

try better ai recruitment, in a few turns there are armies with 20/20 armies

[OwedEvil]

Цитата допису easytarget:

Threads like this make me laugh.

Oh dear, the most brainless person i have ever met plagues this forum as well. I am truly disappointed at your existence. You almost always add nothing to your comments pertaining to intelligence and the subject.

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Hello^^ Unless u could try out some mods which more or less boost the AI factions more u may just need to restrict urself... 3 tips: Dont attack those empty capitals and other towns its just the point which make u op vs other factions. 2nd: Its fun to restrict urself to only be able to conquer regions where ur culture dominates.Not just kill all and plant big army there and kill rebels 20 turns. last and ofc best one: declare war on all,turtle urself to at max 3-4 provinces and w8 200 turns to let other factions get stronger. and btw,dont trade,dont ally or satrap ANYONE. That should give u a hard time.I did so and my campaign is on fire now,cant even leave Italy anymore^^ Everybody allied and sent multiple stacks,no levy bs ( Parthian expanded to balkan and hired german berserkers^^ for example) best ones fully upgraded and chevroned.

Have fun and feel free for more tips,i use plenty of those anti game breakers

LOL, i have to admit those are good tips. They are all utterly and horrifically immersion breaking as well as very stupid and asinine. However, i think i can get around to declaring war on randoms/everyone. Hopefully that will help.

I do genuinely still wish there was a difficulty mod, though. Rome 2 is so pathetic compared to Shogun 2, which was easy/moderately difficult at first, till the onslaught begins and you are swarmed by elites and MULTIPLE full armies.

[Raoule]

yep,its hard tho...campaign want get smarter over mods,its limited from gameside. Only way is to let the AI cheat,like their Levy has better stats than urs,but thats not what u looking for i guess. best way is like i said, "try" to not exploit the faults which cpu make.like leaving city unprotected.U wouldnt do that and me either,but ai faction doesnt care about his capital. I also installed an Elite and better recruitment mod like Danny said. Once u give Ai enough time it will field decent stacks,multiple. For me, i mentioned a good result for the bigger factions at turn 100 and now at 200, all factions who survived are mean...
U can simulate 100 turns easily while playing the game defensivly,then go mad and fight all^^

[OwedEvil]

I'll try out a recruitment mod. Thanks for the info.

[Raoule]

yw, i guess its not big deal u can play on ur campaign i think...Ai just need time to recruit better stacks after u installed the elite unit mod.For the aggressive campaign ai mod u need to restart i guess...srry
Add: and play EE there are later reforms and so on better troops,elite mod doesnt help when ai isnt teched up far enough. Also DeI make battles slow and units very tanky so u can easily outmaneuver them and rear attack. i installed DeI faster battles 2.0 and some other tweaks thats crucial for more challenge cause u cant make a single thin line,enemy can kill thru and push aside now... DeI is nice,iplay it with passion but the battle system isnt in my favour from the base. Luckily there are many submods for all u want,believe me.

[smidlee]

I haven't play Rome 2 much yet one option in the first Rome TW I used is to set a giving number of turns before I would start invading other regions. I played totally defensive as this did two things, This adds a little varity how the map is set up before going on the offensive and give the AI a little head start.
It something like the "Universe age" option Distant World has where the AI has already expanded to other systems.

As with all strategy games once you are on equal foot with the AI (especially at the top) the game is basically over.