This year Diamond Dynasty hitting seems much harder to me. Now, I am handicapped in that I'm still on XBox One with a wireless controller, and I was only 67 a year ago so there is that. 
I mean they dropped a bunch of 99's out of the gate and my team is much stronger than my opponents in Conquest but [censored]. And even if you attack some strongholds at a max of 99 you still get the opponent on veteran.