Is it just me or do you think the A.I is poor in the demo? I moved the majority of my forces over the left crossing (out of range of their guns), including my artillery. I came across one unit hiding in the woods, which were dealt with rather quickly. No big deal up to this point. I pushed my army close to the edge of a hill and set up my artillery on the hill to bombard the filthy yanks (no offence, just having fun :)).

From this moment onwards I started to notice some problems with the enemy A.I.

1. The enemy A.I set up two lines of infantry facing my army. But they put one unit in the building. I presume you all know which one I refer too? Anyhow, I pounded that building over and over but the unit stayed in the building regardless, even when it was on fire and close to destruction!! Eventually I destroyed the building and with that, the unit. Now what was the point of keeping that unit in the building when it was obviously going to be destroyed? In real life would a unit just sit in a building whilst artillery was pounding the building it was in, if that building was close to destruction? Would there not come a point when you would evacuate the place?

2. A few units of the enemy broke off to join with their artillery further away, but there was still two lines of enemy to deal with, which I pounded relentlessly and then moved all my other units to engage. They were finished off rather quickly. Now the next A.I. blunder was after I had accomplished this, the enemy A.I. decided to move two units of artillery towards me, without any support from infantry or cavalry. I was shocked to see two units of artillery being moved towards my line ALONE, without any other units from the enemy to support this movement. Now what was the CPU thinking? Why do that, because I am sure you can all work out what happened next? I rushed them with some units and wiped these two artillery units out very quickly. What a completely pathetic move by the A.I.

3. After this second thing had happened, the A.I decided to cross the river with 3 infantry units and charge towards the units I had left on that other side ( i had taken most of my troops to their side but had left my general and some infantry and cavalry where they were). The enemy had no chance because in this encounter they were outnumbered and I had 3 cavalry units, including infantry, at my disposal, so I was able to out flank them. They ran off, most being slaughted. But then to my horror, one unit came back, and stood in a square formation, all alone now, very close to the line of my army on this side of the river. Suicide? I don't get why it would do that when it was heavily outnumbered, and would have been best going back across the river to stand with the the last remaining units the A.I had.

What do other people think about the A.I for the demo? In the land battle I was not too impressed with the CPU, and to be honest it was far too easy to win this particular battle. But most of all the computer did some stupid things, as stated above.