>>530951080
Uninorically set battle difficulty to easy but ai cheats to none/hard. This way AI actually dares to attack settlements without massive overwhelming force. I struggled with this because twg has infected me with mind virus of "max ai cheats = fun", but the fact is that playing on Very Hard/legendary is just you steamrolling unwalled settlements while AI brings 4 stacks against your unwalled settlements. Easy has me fighting tons of defensive sieges which are max kino and by removing in-battle cheats they are actually challenging sometimes. I'm at turn 30 and I've already fought two capital sieges where its just garrison vs full stack.
My appraisal at "battle difficulty: easy but battle stats: hard" is; enemy is hyperaggressive throwing entire stacks agsinst capitals but only single stacks because they dont get -50% upkeep and +4 recruitment local and global slots with -80% recruitment cost allowing them to throw two elite stack overpowers every 5 turns