bigsmit19

Call me a newb but I have been playing this game on and off for about a year now and could never beat the ai players on medium difficulty or higher. I found it unbelievably hard to do anything without the ai just showing up and destroying me like 3 minutes into the game. I started playing on easy and still found the ai to be just unbeatable without having fully maxed gear upgrades from the forge or a church literally where the battle was occurring. I switched to very easy and was actually able to beat the game several times without assistance and so I stayed on "very easy." I have been absent from the game for a few months now and decided to load it up today. I am now getting annihilated once again but this time on very easy. I literally cant do anything more on the strategy side of things to beat this ai. I'm almost convinced that this is just a bug with the game or something. I'm on very easy balanced settings for the ai - What I'm Doing - I start out by directing my women to gather food and order more women instantly from the civic building to gather wood as my men are building a storage room and 1 house. I direct the horse to scout and find the enemy but don't allow myself to be attacked by them. I then go in increments of 5 and get 10 women on trees and food while the soldiers are building whatever may be needed. I try to get all storage upgrades as soon as i can and upgrade to town phase. Around this time I get attacked by the enemy and they run right past my soldiers to my women who are the furthest away from them and kill at least 1/4 of them. After the women finally run inside from me raising the alarm, my soldiers get attacked and I usually lose about 4/10 of them and the remaining ones have a sliver of health. I resume and keep getting attacked and even though I have stone towers fully upgraded, fully garrisoned, the enemy soldiers just seem to be unphased. Their health goes down but its like taking out 1 soldier every 45 seconds which I never remember the game doing. Today I was playing a naval map and due to being on an island I was able to build my civilization to have a massive army before sending them on ships to the enemy shoreline. I had fully upgraded ships, fully upgraded armor and weapons, fully upgraded rams, heroes, etc. Got there and I was OBLITERATED!!! My rams health went down like butter and at least 3/4 of my army died (50+). I've also never seen my heros health bar go down so quickly. The enemy territory wasn't anything special. Maybe 3 stone towers, a civic center, 2 ships, several horses, army of like maybe 20 and I got destroyed. I look online and there's people saying that hard difficulty is quite easily doable if you're an experienced gamer which I consider myself to be. Yea right dude. I never remember it being this hard. Its almost like the enemy is just able to deal more damage and take more of my damage for some reason. I know I updated the game recently so maybe that had something to do with it??? hopefully??? Really liked this game but its just unplayable now sadly. Hopefully someone has a fix