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[Alneyan]

The Panther said:
The idea of selecting the Pretender and turning it AI will not work very well since you cannot force it to be an impossible AI by doing that, I believe. And you can't use the extra Pretender points the computer receives on the more difficult settings.

You can force the game to host using impossible AIs, if you are in full control of the dom2.exe used to run the turns (or can setup the command line of the .exe yourself). At least, the command switches doc says so; I have never tried it myself.

It will not help with the extra Pretender points however, though you could work around that, by giving Ermor a special nation-only Pretender. This Pretender would have a cost of 0 and as many freebies as you need to reach a "cost" of 250 points (Dominion 8 or 9 perhaps); all the other stats of the Pretender would be similar to the chosen Pretender. That would give a 500 points Pretender having 250 free points, as many points as Impossible AIs get, and with better choices.