Was going to buy the game and then!

[Cainehill]

Of course the AI doesn't need to cheat. Well before the start of the 1900s computers (well, robots) were already winning chess games against strong human players.

Of course, each "computer" / "Robot" had a dwarf inside it controlling the pieces, but in this day and age there's no reason we don't have the online equivalent. Each Dominions 3 game should have a Chinese person playing each AI nation.

After all - farming for hours and hours in online games works for them, we shouldn't need to pay more than 10 cents per turn and they'd be happily on the road to "rich" by Chinese standards.