How difficult is it really? And about the Editor...

[Metathron]

Yeah, you shouldn't have too much trouble progressing on easy, just try it out...

[Jokubas]

Armored Princess and Crossworlds are harder?

I was considering buying the Platinum pack, but considering I hit a brick wall in The Legend on easy... You people are too good at this kind of game.

[MaroonMaurader]

After the first ~1/3 of the game, AP isn't any harder than TL. It just has a brutal introduction - on Impossible difficulty, pretty quickly you have almost no mana, almost no rage, few spells or abilities, and you're consistently facing "impossible" rated enemy armies. 99% of all strategies for dealing with that just fail. There's maybe a half-dozen known approaches for getting through it, and unless you read one of them or devise one of those on your own the odds are extremely good that you'll simply be unable to continue. Once you've gotten through there to the point that you have more spells and mana, and a wider selection of creatures to work with, it's not too bad.

[Elwin]

The game is brutally hard on start when you play it for first time. If u havent played legend, normal mage will be just nightmare for you, many poeple fails at it. Personally i had to use tactics form impossible difficulty from Legend to do something in AP at normal mage . After finishing it once and knowing it mechanics it becomes quite easy.

[Lord Ludwig]

It is indeed hard to say how hard this game really is. It offers a huge amount of possible strategies and tactics. At first, if you are totally unexperienced, it may seem hellish even on easy. But if you are experienced, even no loss on impossible becomes easy for most of the campaign. Generally, the hardest parts are the levels from, say, 5 to 12 and then the very last battles against the megabosses.

If you just want to relax without bothering to plan, to read what every spell and ability really do, then you could maybe complete the game on lowest difficulty. But you would really experience only 5% of what this game has to offer. It's like reducing Beethoven's 9th to a GSM ring tone.

[Hento]

Originally Posted by MaroonMaurader

and you're consistently facing "impossible" rated enemy armies.

Although, as a mage impossible rating is irrelevant, there is nothing that mage can't beat with a properly developed spells and character. And mage is better served by having no army except a single lvl 5 unit.