Forum Overview :: Gamerasutra :: If you're steamrolling them, maybe up the difficulty a bit?

[quote name="WITTGENSTEIN "]Playing the Western Roman Empire in Barbarian Invasion is probably one of the most ridiculously difficult campaigns I can think of. Even by cheating with the bridge chokepoint over the Danube. The thing I like about Total War is that in a situation where the AI control might hand me a harsh defeat, I can either turn it into a close defeat or a narrow victory with good tactics. In Empire Total War I held off like 3000 Indians with just 300 European riflemen with the advantage of good positioning. Yes, I don't want to handle very 2000 of my guys vs 200 of theirs, but that's where the AI auto-resolve is a nice touch. If it's overreached in the latest iterations, it's probably because they took a very simple tier 1-5 building scheme and made real estate more important than development-in-depth. The person with the biggest empire wins.[/quote]