Ok, I have some "house-rules" in place (Iron Man mode ON except if it was a technical mistake on my part instead of strategic one, and never getting one of the "easy" clans), but even then I hoped to fare a little better. And the AI wiped the floor with my ass ALL THE TIME. I got the latest Darthmod and went for H/H campaign. But down there inside my chest I keep feeling like "Nah, people are exagerating, it must be more of the same wish-fullfilling retard AI experience as all games in this series". Then I read some online discussion where people say its actually a good and challenging game, and I decide to reinstall it. I got it at launch but never played much, actually. And then it went downhill from there: Medieval 2 was the same only on different garment Empire reached a new low for the series and the entire strategy genre Nappy was kind of cool but too linear for my tastes. That is, until I realized it was so ludicrously easy even on VH/VH that my will to play it simply vanished. Then some years later I've met Rome and its Total Realism and Barbarorum mods and I was in love. I met the series with Shogun 1, but found it too difficult and rapidly gave up on it. Now, I've never give the Shoguns much love before. Understand "worthy" here as a fairly challenging game, not as a lego-like "mount your empire" game where the AI cant win even if you're a retardo playing blindfolded.