Noob question about AI and diplomacy

[Ewierl]

By the way, AFAIK, the AI actually targets weak players instead of strong ones, mostly via the Army Size graph. This is an effective plan sometimes, but sadly they do it all the time... and doubly sad when combined with all the AIs massing independents the way they're wont to do, human-run army sizes invariably end up on the lower end of the scale. Nowadays I always use the No Independents mod in SP.