Testers needed.

Personally, I found the first quest on Veteran difficulty to be challenging. I tried my best to avoid significant losses in battles. After the battle for the castle, I was left with only 3 Inquisitors (the enemy's army consisted mostly of undead – that was the intention, I guess?). With these 3 Inquisitors and a ballista, I started to gather some ore and gold, as I had almost nothing. In general, with minimal losses and by rebuilding, I cleared the entire territory (maybe not developing it perfectly), found a master, built a shipyard, and then, suddenly, the mission failed (I didn't read carefully enough; it turned out that only 5 weeks were given). I don't even know if I could have developed enough in 3-4 weeks to defeat all the undead and still have an army left afterward. I'll try again later.