I find it's an enjoyable balance of modest AI bonuses to be a bit more challenging without game being completely stupid they way very hard is. The guide mostly targets hard/hard campaign difficulty. Because Empire modding is rather limited, you can still mostly follow them even for big mods like Darthmod as long as they have start similar to 1700 vanilla start. The guides apply to unmodded campaigns, or lightly modded campaigns (things like removing forts, faction unlocks, additional units, graphics mods etc.). It's mostly based on campaigns I played before, but for factions I played less I did a lot of testing.
So I decided to did some research and write my own guides. All advice was awful, or only applicable to outdated patches. As I got back to Empire Total War, somehow I couldn't find any good faction guides.
