Patch 3!

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The next thing will be a load of posts complaining that the AI is too aggressive on VH/VH.

Judging from other posts, the AI is far too aggressive on any setting now. I was hoping for a more intelligent AI, not a more suicidal one. Based on my hour or so of playing a VH French campaign I had in progress, the AI is simply now even more suicidal. And the NA factions are going on a rampage. They were bad before, now they are ridiculous. There is a NA DoW on me and at least one other colonial power every turn.

On a positive side, at least the Barbary pirates have come back to life in the Med. They used to get blasted out of the sea in the first couple of turns, then remain stagnant for the rest of the campaign.

I'll have to start a fresh campaign to see if the NA factions will be affected by the changes in recruitment costs. The fact that even the Pueblos had three full stacks already before the patch hit might have something to do with their current rampage.