has the AI been upgraded?

[Boron]

You can do a few easy to do things to increase the AI's performance :

- Vh opponents
- Vh magic research
- Taking yourself a drainscale
- Mod supply to 5-10x as much as atm , then the ai will attack you with 500-1000 men armies where not 90% are starving
- Play against some strong but interesting modded nations
- Play yourself "weaker" nations if you enjoy that

If you have some time you can do some maps/mods on your own where the ai gets some boni .
Imo the ai is anyways quite ok , at least as you said compared to HoMM or even more to AoW which are very similiar games .