I have like 7 diff setups on my computer personally. That why i like the submod manager (and submod section) cause you can play around with different setups and play all sorts of different campaigns. Glad to hear your opinion, and thanks for the detailed review. Just do as I said above and the game should both very fun and satisfying. But the highest possible difficulty is simply not worth your time. So this would be my opinion after trying playing Stainless Steel as Poland (which is a difficult faction to play) with all possible difficulty. Check it out yourself but I suggest starting at Very Hard, and then eventually lowering the difficulty if need be. The higher the difficulty the more armies the enemy gets out of thin air to attack you. An isolated faction will be easier to play. When it comes to Campaign Difficulty - it depends on what faction you play as.
It may seem hard to do but it's actually nicely done in practice (but keep in mind that enemy's General's Bodyguard are very hard to kill in Stainless Steel). Otherwise there is no chance for enemy army to route. Most battle will resolve around killing enemy General to win. This is really fun and quite fair experience. What campaign and battle difficulty should I play on? When it comes to Battle Difficulty - play on Very Hard.
This mod should actually be renamed to "Byg's Pointless, Masochistic Reallity" - it would reflect that mod more accurately.Ĩ.
Plus BGR will also make waiting for your next turn longer. So the beginning of a campaign is OK but as soon as you get your first/second war declaration you will constantly lack troops, lack money (you will also get into a heavy debt due to paying tons of money for supplies) and you won't appreciate that "deeper economics" anyways. You have to pay heavy money to supply troops when they travel across borders, you will have to send your 3 best generals to sit like ducks in a few towns and recruits units (because only they those 3 best generals can recruit best units and if they leave that town, new units won't be waiting for them ready to be recruited - their "turns to next available unit" will reset). So in practice what BGR mod will do is simply punish you heavily for everything. To defend yourself you will have to constantly recruit new units as fast as possible and move them around the map all the time. I play as Poland - this faction has weaker infantry and foot archers, and is constantly under Siege from all directions (Holy Roman Empire to the west, Denmark from the beyond the Baltic see, Lithuania and Kiev and Novgorod from the east and someone may join the fight from the south too). Meanwhile BGR will make the game a chore.
The reason why BGR is IMO a bad mod is because while Stainless Steel makes the game harder (in a right way) an also very fun too.
Should I install 'Byg's Grim Reality II' or 'Byg's Grim Reality IV'? Don't install any of them.