- Strategic AI - Consolidation of force. The strategic AI lacks focus. Often its armies are too scattered, small and ineffectual to have any meaningful impact, especially against human players who like to keep fewer, well stocked armies on hand. The AI will often trickle small sized armies into enemy territory which are easily defeated, needlessly ruining their war effort and constantly boosting their enemy generals' command abilities to overinflated heights. Anytime there is an enemy army about the AI should consolidate ALL its forces in the immediate area into one army, put a general in charge (if possible) and either attack or wait to be attacked.
I would amend this point I made earlier. Apparently this isn't as big an issue with the larger, wealthier AI factions who don't have problems making large armies in a short period of time. However, I've seen this occur countless times with the barbarian factions. The AI should know to not do this with the relatively low tech barbarian factions who need weight of numbers to maximize their effectiveness.