Difficulty level

[jj.denver]

Hello,

I was thinking of playing through Red Star, Red Steel, Red Storm campaigns (I don't really have time now to play - just thinking about it for future). I'm a fairly competent strategy gamer with experience. What difficulty level would make sense?

There are 5: Lt, Capt, Maj, Col, Gen

I don't want to have a reload a lot, but also don't want it to be so easy that it's boring. Would Capt or Major make sense?

Thanks

[cool]

I recommend to start with the middle one (Major) which puts you and the AI on equal footing. If you find it too easy to your liking, you can up the diff lvl for the next DLC. In fact you can also change the difficulty between the scenarios in the campaign map screen should you find it too easy/hard.

[RobOda]

Major should be fairly reasonable if you’re a competent war gamer.

The only real issue is the lack of an undo button if you muck up a movement with fat fingers, so keep a turn/battle save available for those occasions. (I misclicked an infantry unit into the mountains recently, was fairly annoyed but it was early in the turn so didn’t matter.)

[GhostLight]

Yes, I play all my campaigns on difficulty level 3. They way I see it, honor is satisfied if I can win when I'm on an equal footing with the AI. All else is bragging rights. ;) That said, I did end up dumbing down the difficulty to 2 for the final Endsieg battle. It was tough and I had taken heavy casualties in the previous battles at Arnhem, Ardennes, and Hurtgen Forest.

Yeah RobOda, the undo button is one of the few times that I thought Panzer Corps 2 did something better than Order of Battle.