I am playing the highest difficulty and it was SO MUCH fun, it really felt hard, survivalish. But after I met Kallach and she got medium armor and two strikes (plus 1 from rage) - it all went to bits, because barbarians are WAY too overpowered. Basically lvl 5 is a huge powerspike and the challenge from the game is gone. So I am still playing hard mode but it's not so fun anymore - tooo easy. Plenty of money, plenty of stuff, forge stuff.... Bring down the barbarian please, remove medium armor wearing possibility from the class, bring down barb health boosts. Now it's just walking around killing stuff, especially if she teams up with the Laezel. 2 strikes per turn is too much.