2012 Huo Hu Award Voting: Best Difficulty Modifications
Nominees:
Rise of Ieyasu (by sonic penguin 2012)
Right from the start of the game it had a completely different vibe with the rearranged map and difficulty, after playing a lot of other mods this year I actually had to bust my ass to progress on Rise Of Ieyasu.
I'll go for Difficulty Modification!
Destiny of an Emperor 2.0 (by James 2007-2008)
If I remember correctly this was the first mod that really set a new standard of difficulty for mods.
I cannot vouch for the Cao Cao mod, but DoaE 2.0 was pretty hard.
Destiny of an Emperor 2.0: Cao Cao Edition (by James 2007-2009)
Some of the mods here are hard too, but this is the hardest.
Love a tough DoaE, and this was tough despite a myriad of officer options in Wei. Built off of DoaE 2.0 and it's splitting hairs.