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Once a province is scouted its troops and negotiation costs are fixed - However the difficulty rating can change downwards if your technology increases before you clear the provinceĬhapters 2 and 3 are some of the most difficult provincial combat times in the game.Every scout increases the cost of other provinces by a small amount The province distance from your town, each ring is a reasonable step up in difficulty/cost.Advanced scouting technology - this reduces unscouted provinces by 25%.Your squad size increases by 3 times the number on the squad size tech, so by 15 for SS tech 3 and by 30 for SS tech 10. This is the biggest key to fight difficulty. Province difficulty is predominately determined by your squad size and the enemies squad size. Which I'm sure will be achieved well before arriving there. Same now for chapter 3 - I'm only half way through with dozens of upgrades to get through, but only have 14 provinces to go to open the start of chapter 4 chest. In trying for land expansions, am I'm catering/fighting to many provinces too early in my research tree - that is pushing up the difficulty? EG - when reaching end of chapter 2 I had explored more provinces then was required to open the chest. What is determining this - my squad size? Armory size? Or simply just scouting those easy provinces.
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Recently - starting research chapter 3, I gained a scouting upgrade, then over days, some provinces went from very hard to easy - then after scouting 2 easy provinces the remaining increased in difficulty again immediately.
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However I'm still not following the mechanics of the changing levels (very easy - very hard) of exploring my provinces. Hi all - I've read the wiki - As the wiki explains it - given my distance I am now scouting from my city centre (34 provinces explored - 5-6 rings out from city centre) - all provinces should be very hard.