Quote Originally Posted by TinCow
That depends on how narrowly you're defining the genre. I can think of several strategy games with entirely decent AIs, such as Civ 4 and EUIII, but the last good RTS AI I can think of is way back in Starcraft.
well, Civ 4 has a decent strategy level AI (when heavily cheating on higher than prince levels), but there practically are no real time battles. so, playing civ 4 is like tossing half of TW experience out (for me, at least).

Europa Universalis: a nice idea, but the gameplay is nowhere near as pleasing and fluid as with Civ 4 and again: real time battles do not exist.

I guess, I agree about starcraft :))