Warlord too easy, noble.. way too hard?

[IronCrown]

you do realize we're talking about BTS here, right? if there are some fool-proof strategies already documented for the new expansion, I've love to see them.

for the record, I still can't "easily" win on Prince in Vanilla/Warlords.. although for me the level of difficulty in winning almost comes down to victory condition more than the game settings. for example, Space Race is by far still the easiest victory, even in BTS. I'm finding domination victory on Noble in BTS very impossible at the moment but I hope to get better soon. Conquest... eek, I could pull that off on a normal sized map in Warlords on Noble level, but who knows under harder conditions..

The game hasn't changed that much. To win easily on Noble you just need to know about some basic concepts that haven't changed since Vanilla. Cromat named some of them.

As for BtS, it may be that I just got 'lucky' and had only games where the AIs suffered from bugs or whatever, but believe it or not, I completed three games so far, first on Prince, second Monarch, third Emperor, and won all those games with ease. Victories were Diplomatic, Cultural and Domination, respectively. I'd like to stress that I never rushed, in fact I was always attacked myself before I started the first war.

In Warlords (with BetterAI) I was having a very hard time on Monarch