@Marindor:
How is the difficulty of provinces (Very Easy/Easy/Hard/Very Hard) determined? Is it affected by my squad size and techs I have researched?
The reason I am asking is this:
On Felyndral (the new world on the EN server) I have completed 44/50 provicnes, so I need 6 more to open the chest for next chapter. ALL provinces I have left on the world map are marked as Hard or Very Hard - both the ones I have scouted and the ones I can scout. Here are a couple of screenshots:
Hard provinces have scouting cost 48'000 Coins and scouting time 1 hour 30 minutes. Very Hard provinces have scouting cost 89'000 Coins and scouting time 2 hours 31 minutes. My current squad size is 114 and I have two combat techs left: Crossbowman Promotion and Squad Size upgrade 9 (which will bring my squad size to 141). As for enemy squad size... let me give you a couple of examples:
Magic Dust province, 5 on 5, enemy squad size is 139.
Planks province, 5 on 5, enemy squad size is 141.
Enemy squads in future provinces will be even bigger. That makes combat seem rather unbalanced at this point in time.