I'm seriously considering abandoning my game at Normal (misison 10) and just starting again at Easy difficulty. But would like to know how different Easy actually is. I can't pass this mission on Normal, the previous few missions were a pain already and I imagine it will only get harder.

I'd hate to lose all my hours of playing, only to discover easy difficulty makes no difference.

What difficulty do you play at?

Just completed level 6 on Easy.

I can say there is a difference. The enemy keeps sending a (slightly weaker than on Normal) stream of units at you and doesn't develep its town as much. It is still by no means a pushover. But it is not as frustrating.

Of course the pathfinding and unit AI is just as terrible.

I do recommend people start at this level rather than Normal.

And finished! Finally!

Overall the single most annoying thing in this game is the unit AI and pathfinding.

Other than that, it has some novel ideas, but execution varies. Too bad, it would have been a good game otherwise.

Play on Easy. You can't change difficulty mid game, and Normal or Hard can be very annoying. Easy was challenging enough, and never so hard you want to rage-quit.

Congrats! The unit AI and pathfinding are really aggravating, you should have seen my face during that bridge level when my ballistae got stuck and couldn't advance or reverse. Fun dropped to zero for a moment. It's really a shame that an otherwise very solid game has such annoying flaws, with a little more polish this could have been a classic worthy of a clear recommendation to a broad audience. As it is, it's really only for diehards.

I was able to finish tha campaign on easy too... now I´m trying on medium