Confession - I like the easy level.

[Ighalli]

Now, I'm not a pro like Alneyan, Zen, and Saber Cherry but I don't think difficult AIs are at all difficult. I almost always play against a bunch of them. Impossible ones are a different story since they can crush you in the early game if you're not careful and a little lucky. Anyone else feel this way?

[BigDaddy]

I love to play on impossible, but unless you pick production scale its hard to "concern" the computer enough to make it not attack (the computer seems to get concerned if you're huge and not attack you agressively).

You will still lose sometimes in the early game. The computer always sucks against Emerald Guards and nasy Ulm units.

[tinkthank]

Maybe my problem is normal research or too high a number of starting provs/nation (between 15-18 or more), but I never lose to Impossible AI.

[BigDaddy]

I play Very Difficult research, Providence str 9, 1 starting province.

This caps your expansion and limits you research advantage (the computer sucks at both).

[Alneyan]

Ighalli said:
Now, I'm not a pro like Alneyan [...]

There must be a mistake here. I know the game quite well, but I do not exactly play it well: just ask Blofeld (among others). Poor Arcoscephale, going down in flames like that...