normal make the game as balanced as it can, AI dont get too many, if any, bonuses. i wish the AI was just better and they didnt just give them huge bonuses...

I would say play it on hard for a map.
Radious MOD adds +1 difficulty level to map in my opinion to the . As far as battles, AI does behave better, but doesn't necessarily win better. I mean, AI doesn't do really stupid stuff as much, but it is still not much harder then vanilla. So for the map, I would say play whatever difficulty you like for vanilla.

The thing is Radious mod is a little too hard in the beginning, but later due to extra skill points for generals and armies you will have no issues even against 5 -6 full stacks.
This makes campaigns really long because you can't afford to autocalc but I love rome 2 for battles so I got not problem with that :like:

I'm playing with Macedonians and it's extremely easy on Normal difficulty.

I must admit that I'm finding this Mod hard (in a good way) as well. No doubt that this is a truly great mod and it has improved the vanilla experience tenfold, but between this and the vanilla I am finding it hard to find a perfect difficulty balance. Vanilla is far too easy and takes any edge away from the game but Radious is extremely difficult at the beginning with almost every faction with land adjasent to mine declaring war on me and all seemingly having the spare money to fund hugely impressive armies.

Originally posted by Lenny Leonard:

I must admit that I'm finding this Mod hard (in a good way) as well. No doubt that this is a truly great mod and it has improved the vanilla experience tenfold, but between this and the vanilla I am finding it hard to find a perfect difficulty balance. Vanilla is far too easy and takes any edge away from the game but Radious is extremely difficult at the beginning with almost every faction with land adjasent to mine declaring war on me and all seemingly having the spare money to fund hugely impressive armies.

Why isn't this happening to me :O I have the Radious Total War mod and a few others (That don;t change gameplay besides 4tpy) and it's just been a smooth, easy ride so far. I'm on my 50th turn with over 20 settlements taken with no one declaring war on me, normal difficulty. I'm making 10k per turn and have about 100k with max armies and max built settlements. ???

Originally posted by taloN:

I'm playing with Macedonians and it's extremely easy on Normal difficulty.

same to me, try in hard. ill do that.
if you develope your army quickly the AI respects you and they dont declare war.

Very Hard and Legendary are made to be extra challenging, much more difficult then vanilla VH/Legendary. If you struggle with that, try Hard.

AI was made far more agressive, better utilise its economy and resources, recruit more and faster, better balanced armies etc etc.

On other hand Battle difficulty should be always played on normal or hard due to hidden stats bonuses for Ai on higher difficulties which can destroy balance.

Hope this helps guys!

Originally posted by taloN:

Originally posted by Lenny Leonard:

I must admit that I'm finding this Mod hard (in a good way) as well. No doubt that this is a truly great mod and it has improved the vanilla experience tenfold, but between this and the vanilla I am finding it hard to find a perfect difficulty balance. Vanilla is far too easy and takes any edge away from the game but Radious is extremely difficult at the beginning with almost every faction with land adjasent to mine declaring war on me and all seemingly having the spare money to fund hugely impressive armies.

Why isn't this happening to me :O I have the Radious Total War mod and a few others (That don;t change gameplay besides 4tpy) and it's just been a smooth, easy ride so far. I'm on my 50th turn with over 20 settlements taken with no one declaring war on me, normal difficulty. I'm making 10k per turn and have about 100k with max armies and max built settlements. ???

4TPY is already included, no need to use it. :-)

Originally posted by Radious:

Very Hard and Legendary are made to be extra challenging, much more difficult then vanilla VH/Legendary. If you struggle with that, try Hard.

AI was made far more agressive, better utilise its economy and resources, recruit more and faster, better balanced armies etc etc.

On other hand Battle difficulty should be always played on normal or hard due to hidden stats bonuses for Ai on higher difficulties which can destroy balance.

Hope this helps guys!

Hey Radious! Love the mod so far, great work. Playing a Legendary campaign right now and noticed how the AI low tier units basically go 1on1 on my higher tier units. Noticed that the battle difficulty was locked on very hard. Is there any way to change this as I seem unable to in the game settings? Really dislike how my enemies moral never drops and the unfair melee bonuses.

Battle difficulty you can change once you are on campaign map - gameplay options.

Originally posted by Radious:

Battle difficulty you can change once you are on campaign map - gameplay options.

It seems to be locked when playing Legendary

Ah yes on lgenedary i am afraid its locked.

is anywhere a list of buffs for the ai difficulties?

(campaign)

More income, cheaper units, better public order, easier corruption, more food, more recruitment slots, etc. Plenty bonuses which get shigher with every difficulty level.