Enemy AI and difficulty

[KingJuiceBox]

i rember playing this game as a kid so iv give it a whirl again for fun.

the enemy AI never attack me during Combat they just turle up and i have to initiate combat? is this always the way it was? i dont rember it being like this.

also id ther anyway for increasing the difficulty other than nerfing myself?
i already use army eat and advanced farming ?

cheers
juice

[Colonel Sanders Lite]

The combat AI will only attack if it percieves it has a fairly strong advantage or when it has no ranged units left and you do.

As far as increasing the difficulty, you need to launch games through the custom game menu option to have access to settings that can make it harder.

The thing to keep in mind is that the AI cheats and if you change the difficulty setting, the AI will cheat more. So changing the settings to make the game harder for you, doesn't make the game any harder for the AI. Try:

Advanced Farming: On
Armies Eat: Yes
Starting Castle: Royal
County Status: Weak
Exploration: On
Difficulty: Impossible
Weapons: None
Nobles: Maxed
Army: None
Crowns: 100
Fight?: setting the game to fight humans only is going to force autoresolve. If you're good at the game's tactical combat, this means that you're going to lose a *lot* more troops and you're going to need much bigger armies to take out castles than you otherwise would. If you're bad at the tactical combat, fighting all battles might well be harder for you.

VS the AI, the game just doesn't get any harder than that.