AI is to aggressive now.

[Ancient History Gamer]

I really don't enjoy playing as Ramesses or another faction and by turn 12 be at war with 3-4 different factions, while I have like 14/20 of a stack and the AI armies have a full stack and half for each faction at war with me. I love the game just needs to make the AI more balance so doesn't feel like a nightmare playing the campaign.

[okuzmin2003]

Played as Ithaca and Troy . Ai gets really agressive once you start expanding. Also being the part if ancient Aegean legacy everyone and their cousin declares war on you. All those faction you had a pact with.
Ai pulls money out of their ass in while administration limits your expansion qnd makes you starve for resources.

All if this on N/N playing Aegean factions.

[unknown_noob]

Just played in the southern Part of Egypt and Pyrus (its almost the most northwestern faction) declared war on me and sailed over the sea with 3 fullstacks down the whole river Nil and ended my campaign :D

[oOIYvYIOo]

I am playing with Thrace/Macedonians on Leg+defult, after 50 battles in 62 turns, I am overcoming my foes and going to be declared Wanax of Hellas!!
Stop whining and fight your battles, this is TW!!!

[Exdeath]

Not only that, for some reason they have huge armies and if u kill a full 20 slot army 2 rounds latwr he has a 10 slot army rebuild

[marielato]

I was playing warhammer 3 before this and in warhammer you can blitz and conquer fast. Maybe I'm wrong but in this game I feel that you have to really consider the balance of power. My first game was with Babylon and I just conquered the first nation I'm at war against and overextended myself in the middle of the tigris and euphrates. Ur declared war on me because my king was tied in the north and because I now had a shared border with other nothern nations I soon was tied in a civil war with everybody lol.
Then I started a new game and put back my old TW glasses and mostly beaten the first nation before negociating a peace treaty with them leaving them with 1 region and most importantly they now had a border with those pesky Assyrian nations lol. Then because Ur was in a corner of the map I was able to beat them before they got too strong. Meanwhile I negociated treaties with other nations I shared a border with securing one of my front. I made sure to leave them in the green to make sure they had the impression of getting away with a good deal. Later I arranged a marriage with the biggest of those nation leading to a whole game of "trusted friend" status between both of us.
I finaly won the game still in the crisis phase (1 point from the first phase, lol) and won a minor victory by kicking the hittites and all those pesky invading barbs lol
My way of playing is not the best but all of this to say that I had to adjust to the game. I never was the "king of the universe" (no less) but pulled strings in the background.

[Ancient History Gamer]

Originally posted by Hecleas:

Originally posted by Ancient History Gamer:

I really don't enjoy playing as Ramesses or another faction and by turn 12 be at war with 3-4 different factions, while I have like 14/20 of a stack and the AI armies have a full stack and half for each faction at war with me. I love the game just needs to make the AI more balance so doesn't feel like a nightmare playing the campaign.

It's make me happy!

Maybe you, but Ramesses is suppose to be a easy faction and this shouldn't be AI behavior for normal anyways maybe hard or the higher ones. I play to de-stress from work not to stress out from being with multiple full stack armies in the early game. If this was late game behavior that be already but early.

[oOIYvYIOo]

Originally posted by Ancient History Gamer:

Maybe you, but Ramesses is suppose to be a easy faction and this shouldn't be AI behavior for normal anyways maybe hard or the higher ones. I play to de-stress from work not to stress out from being with multiple full stack armies in the early game. If this was late game behavior that be already but early.

Being easy does not mean that you dont have difficulties. You begin with excellent units, the best Royal tradition, wealthy regions, amazing divinities ... Maybe you should reduce the game dificulty or look up for another game that suits you.

[Default]

Had Knossos and Athens declare war at the same time. Athens had a 20 stack and 8 stack of decent units while Knossos had, not kidding, 3 full stacks of trash before turn 20. Succumbed after a few turns of cat and mouse where I could gain no ground.

[Ancient History Gamer]

Originally posted by oOIYvYIOo:

Originally posted by Ancient History Gamer:

Maybe you, but Ramesses is suppose to be a easy faction and this shouldn't be AI behavior for normal anyways maybe hard or the higher ones. I play to de-stress from work not to stress out from being with multiple full stack armies in the early game. If this was late game behavior that be already but early.

Being easy does not mean that you dont have difficulties. You begin with excellent units, the best Royal tradition, wealthy regions, amazing divinities ... Maybe you should reduce the game dificulty or look up for another game that suits you.

Can't recruit enough units or afford multiple low tier armies to fight off multiple large stacks of armies attack at the same time at different directions. This was a poor response from you, I was one of few hundreds of people playing Pharaoh while most was willing to let die for the next title and you telling me to go play another game, well this is the only major Bronze Age out there so want I am going to play, nothing? I shouldn't have to turn it on easy just to have fun, because not able to defend your land because you being attacked by large multiple armies in the early game is not fun. I was able to and it was fun in the original version when the Sea Peoples did this because by then you could have a good army or two and have your garrisons built up to stop them, kinda hard to do that around turn 12.

[Ancient History Gamer]

Originally posted by Default:

Had Knossos and Athens declare war at the same time. Athens had a 20 stack and 8 stack of decent units while Knossos had, not kidding, 3 full stacks of trash before turn 20. Succumbed after a few turns of cat and mouse where I could gain no ground.

It would be different if this was like turn 80 or higher, some of these factions only have a few settlements and cities and I don't know how they can afford to recruit and maintain such big and multiple armies.

[Praetorian]

Originally posted by Ancient History Gamer:

Originally posted by Hecleas:

It's make me happy!

Maybe you, but Ramesses is suppose to be a easy faction and this shouldn't be AI behavior for normal anyways maybe hard or the higher ones. I play to de-stress from work not to stress out from being with multiple full stack armies in the early game. If this was late game behavior that be already but early.

I don't think Ramesses has ever been an easy faction. It may say it but I have struggled to play him since the game start. Egyptian units can't stand up to Canaanite medium/heavy units in the early-mid game. Most the Bronze is in Northern Canaan too so you're at a disadvantage.

[Ancient History Gamer]

Originally posted by Praetorian:

Originally posted by Ancient History Gamer:

Maybe you, but Ramesses is suppose to be a easy faction and this shouldn't be AI behavior for normal anyways maybe hard or the higher ones. I play to de-stress from work not to stress out from being with multiple full stack armies in the early game. If this was late game behavior that be already but early.

I don't think Ramesses has ever been an easy faction. It may say it but I have struggled to play him since the game start. Egyptian units can't stand up to Canaanite medium/heavy units in the early-mid game. Most the Bronze is in Northern Canaan too so you're at a disadvantage.

They need to change his difficulty.

[☯ Icy ᚱᛖᛞ ᛊᛟᛞᚨ▲]

Originally posted by Ancient History Gamer:

I really don't enjoy playing as Ramesses or another faction and by turn 12 be at war with 3-4 different factions, while I have like 14/20 of a stack and the AI armies have a full stack and half for each faction at war with me. I love the game just needs to make the AI more balance so doesn't feel like a nightmare playing the campaign.

Originally posted by Saeko:

Fully agree, at turn 12, i have a army of 16, in my province, i have 3 enemy army from my enemy, 20 + 18 + 12...... cannot do anything & i just play on normal difficulty, my administration still on the lowest stage, come on now it's just ridiculous !

keep fog of war turned on if you want less factions declaring on you and also.. make sure your armies are full stacks, the unit quality doesn't matter, this is how you deter the AI from declaring on you in my experience.
Also I build the forts that offer reinforcements in each province, i don't know if that factors in but it probably does.

If you just want to learn though, set the AI to passive, it still declares war and stuff but a lot less.

Also set the game up so diplomacy better favors you and for better happiness in your provinces, if you want things to be more favorable to you, also don't auto revolve early game.

[☯ Icy ᚱᛖᛞ ᛊᛟᛞᚨ▲]

Originally posted by Ancient History Gamer:

Originally posted by Praetorian:

I don't think Ramesses has ever been an easy faction. It may say it but I have struggled to play him since the game start. Egyptian units can't stand up to Canaanite medium/heavy units in the early-mid game. Most the Bronze is in Northern Canaan too so you're at a disadvantage.

They need to change his difficulty.

I have found that doing custom settings tailors the experience to just how i want it and its a great feature.

[☯ Icy ᚱᛖᛞ ᛊᛟᛞᚨ▲]

Originally posted by Exdeath:

Not only that, for some reason they have huge armies and if u kill a full 20 slot army 2 rounds latwr he has a 10 slot army rebuild

This can be changed in advanced settings so they cheat less.