The Updated AI WOW!

[Tanaka]

I don't know what you guys have done in this update but this is the best AI I have played in any of the SC series. Before this patch I kicked the AI's butt last game as the Confederates. But this new patch the Union AI is super aggressive and encircling me like crazy. I am getting pushed back everywhere and there seems like a lot more units facing me. Was the Union given more money?

If not whatever you have done please do this to the AI in the other games especially WW1 the AI is super weak and not aggressive at all. It will attack with one unit occasionally somewhere along the line and be done. But in the ACW game it will aggressively attack with multiple units and encircle me to death until my unit is destroyed. It hunts and chases me down. I am really blown away!

[BiteNibbleChomp]

AI doesn't get any more money (indeed, once tech level 3 kicks in it should have fewer units compared to 1.03). What I did do is re-write the production strategies so it deploys more units in theatres of greater priority - particularly Virginia - so it should be using the units it does have more efficiently than before.
Glad to hear it's giving you a challenge

- BNC

[Tanaka]

AI doesn't get any more money (indeed, once tech level 3 kicks in it should have fewer units compared to 1.03). What I did do is re-write the production strategies so it deploys more units in theatres of greater priority - particularly Virginia - so it should be using the units it does have more efficiently than before.
Glad to hear it's giving you a challenge

- BNC

I can definitely tell the improvement of production strategies in the theaters and naval production, naval attacking, and blockading is much improved as well. What is most impressive is the aggressiveness. The encircling and going around and chasing and hunting down my battered units. I know Hubert was talked into toning down the aggressiveness and attacking and made the AI more defensive and stand still in other games such as WW1 but I never agreed with that decision as the AI now attacks poorly. I've never been really challenged by a SC AI until this patch. But for the first time I am getting pummeled in the West. I've never been pummeled by the SC AI before. Such as below the AI never went around me like this before and it makes me have to actually retreat...