I play VH/M and honestly I've heard all kinds of stories ever since Vanilla RTW (which I still played VH on) about full stacks coming out of nowhere, elites all over the place and other ridiculous occurrences in the AI's favor. Now, either all these people are exaggerating a bit, or there's something wrong with my game, but I do not get stacks of elites, I don't get ridiculous amounts of stacks. Sure maybe I blitz a bit more than the average RPer but it isn't like I cripple factions left and right. In a way it is almost easy