What's the best difficulty settings?

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To make Ai smart but not cheating - hard/hard?

[Hollywood]

Normally I'm a Legendary/Very Hard kinda guy, but with this game it just feels impossible to hold on to any form of alliances as you'll constantly be made treacherous in relations with everyone declaring war all over the place. That being said, I do Very Hard instead currently until I can kind of get a better feel on who I should be working with/fighting.

For battle difficulty, crank it up max if you enjoy Total War challenges. It's near impossible to lose a battle on lower difficulties as there are so many different ways to cheese things. I like to do a battle test in custom the first time I pick up a new total war and see if I can be a 10 stack with just my characters and like 2 units. If I can, I crank it up until I can't, and in this game you can do that all the way up until Very Hard.

[s†. Chris†opher]

There is no best, its subjective. Play what you enjoy the most it is a GAME after all. You can change the difficulty at any time, so theres nothing you from trying them out to see which you like.

Personally i play Legendary/hard. I'd really enjoy playing hard/hard with ironman save, but legendary is the only thing stopping me from save scumming. (well until mods come out).

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Originally posted by Kris✅:

There is no best, its subjective. Play what you enjoy the most it is a GAME after all. You can change the difficulty at any time, so theres nothing you from trying them out to see which you like.

Personally i play Legendary/hard. I'd really enjoy playing hard/hard with ironman save, but legendary is the only thing stopping me from save scumming. (well until mods come out).

Let's put it this way, I'd like to see Ai being smart, but not cheating with havin +100000gold per turn on global and +200% to all stats in battles.

[Xal]

Legendary/Legendary if you have some balls

[s†. Chris†opher]

hard/hard seems like the most "fair". Legendary and VH campaign can get abit crazy with retinue deployment and AI troop replenishment.

Hard combat give you the AI perks etc, such as them prefering to aim at your archer etc, Very hard seemed combat while fun and challenging removes that elite unit feeling that you get when you get a beasty unit, campaign settings will give AI's elite units to use more aswell.

Anyways, after a while you're probably going to want to increase the difficulty once you're more familiar with the game, give H/H or N/H a go, i'm assuming you're going to play more than one campaign, and a new difficulty provides a new experience.

[TDBD-SEBN]

I'm on hard/hard and AI seems ok. they suffered attrition, replenishment increases over time with reforms, etc. hard/hard I feel AI didnt cheat so hard. the problem is I have to play so aggressively, turn 80-90 and I already can become King while diplomacy is still not in my favor, but without being agressive, AI will surpass me so fast, especially their military strength.

[ⒺⒹⒾⓃ]

I am playing on HARD, but I think the AI is cheating...they have multiple FULL stacks of troops and only like 3 territories....

[Taejeo of Wei (Sao Sao)]

I am always playing very hard as shown on my youtube channel. There are lots of tricks you can use in Romance mode though. However, I think you might find it easier to play very hard level with yellow turban factions with Records Mode.

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>I think you might find it easier to play very hard level with yellow turban factions with Records Mode.

How so?

[Hevnervals]

AI cheats on higher campaign difficulties sadly. I read somewhere that enemy units might be slightly tweaked on higher battle difficulties as well.

[RebelliousRebel]

I believe that there's a mod that will get rid of the bonus stat for AI when you battle them on any hard level, but I don't really see the point of that mod, since you can have it on normal battle AI anyways...

[Tryust]

Legendary for battles and hard for the map, as said above the diplomaty is annoying in legendary and the ai can sustain a lot of army with a few settelments, but in the battlefield...you're smarter than a AI...even on legendary.

[Brown]

I have only played on Legendary/Legendary. I cant play on anything less. Its an ego thing.

[AstroCat]

I usually play Hard Campaign/ Normal or Hard battles depending on the TW game. First game of 3K was Normal / Normal. The most common is Hard/Hard. Legendary and the like it is a totally different kind of game, not fun for me and way to wonky on the stats and balance. You have to the min/max power game, cheese the system type gameplay. Which I don't find fun at all.

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Originally posted by zwarrior:

normal/normal, only crazy people go higher than that.

easy/easy if u want to have fun, but campaign is still too difficulty.

Not sure if trolling or... Bellow hard, game is too easy to play.