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6/10/2025, 9:01:07 AM
Any EB2 fans around?
I really love a lot of things about this mod - the time period, the historical depth, the unit diversity, the longer battles, the unique faction scripts and dynamics etc I even like the "slow" campaign pace BUT I do have one problem
It's just way too easy.
I'm playing as Macedon now (picrel) and I've successfully taken all of Greece and built a huge navy and now I'm sending my Heir with a fat stack down to Krete and then Rhodes to start taking control of the Aegean and I haven't felt challenged a single time.
Fighting Pyrrus was the closest I felt. I remember feeling pretty skeptical about victory when I saw he had elephants but his entire army routed quickly and he died in the cavalry fight.
Taking Athens they kept landing troops but I was able to defeat them in detail and finally the garrison sallied out and was destroyed.
The random rebel stacks all destroyed as well.
Every battle I follow the same tactics: Javelines up front to skirmish then fall back, Pike wall with light infantry on the wings, Hoplites in reserve to plug gaps and then wrap around after contact. Skirmisher cavalry on the wings to ward off enemy cavalry and then heavy cavalry in reserve comes out after contact to hit the enemy from behind.
Every battle I seem to lose like less than 20% casualties while the enemy is totally destroyed.
It seems like their units rout almost immediately whereas I've had units of light infantry fight on the enemy's walls until they're down to like 30 men.
Maybe I should have bumped the difficulty up but I read in the guide, and the forums, and discord that the game is meant to be played on H/M but it's just so easy.
Does anyone else struggle with this? Does it get better when I start fighting empire sized factions? After I take Rhodes I'm planning to start fighting Egypt and eventually I'm sure Rome will backstab me as well but so far the campaign has been kinda too easy but the battles have been ridiculous.
I really love a lot of things about this mod - the time period, the historical depth, the unit diversity, the longer battles, the unique faction scripts and dynamics etc I even like the "slow" campaign pace BUT I do have one problem
It's just way too easy.
I'm playing as Macedon now (picrel) and I've successfully taken all of Greece and built a huge navy and now I'm sending my Heir with a fat stack down to Krete and then Rhodes to start taking control of the Aegean and I haven't felt challenged a single time.
Fighting Pyrrus was the closest I felt. I remember feeling pretty skeptical about victory when I saw he had elephants but his entire army routed quickly and he died in the cavalry fight.
Taking Athens they kept landing troops but I was able to defeat them in detail and finally the garrison sallied out and was destroyed.
The random rebel stacks all destroyed as well.
Every battle I follow the same tactics: Javelines up front to skirmish then fall back, Pike wall with light infantry on the wings, Hoplites in reserve to plug gaps and then wrap around after contact. Skirmisher cavalry on the wings to ward off enemy cavalry and then heavy cavalry in reserve comes out after contact to hit the enemy from behind.
Every battle I seem to lose like less than 20% casualties while the enemy is totally destroyed.
It seems like their units rout almost immediately whereas I've had units of light infantry fight on the enemy's walls until they're down to like 30 men.
Maybe I should have bumped the difficulty up but I read in the guide, and the forums, and discord that the game is meant to be played on H/M but it's just so easy.
Does anyone else struggle with this? Does it get better when I start fighting empire sized factions? After I take Rhodes I'm planning to start fighting Egypt and eventually I'm sure Rome will backstab me as well but so far the campaign has been kinda too easy but the battles have been ridiculous.
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