How does AI behave on hard?

[Grand Duke Vytautas]

Oh behave, everyone! Well am playin' with jullii on hard, vanilla RTW and I wonder, just how smarter AI is on the startegic and battle map. Please give me some comments. I'm very interested

[Dooz]

Well... if you're playing on hard yourself... can't you just... play and see?

[The Stranger]

do you use the patch 1.2

[Slyspy]

In my experience the AI is no better, it just has more resources and experience to waste! Though patched is an improvement over vanilla.

[Colovion]

The patched is improved, but just marginally. The only AI I could see that was improved notably was the Campaign map... and even that is touch and go.

I'd say don't expect a change and if you notice a difference consider yourself lucky.

[ToranagaSama]

Finally, yesterday, I did a reinstall (had no vanilla versions on my system) and installed the 1.2. Uggghh, had to go thru the Prologue!!

Decided to start out on Medium/Medium, playing the Juii, thought it'd be easier to evaluate at this level. Is it me, but is VH/VH all that harder?

So far, I haven't come close to losing a battle, and the campaign map appears a good bit easier to deal with.

Just wondering if I should abandon this campaign, and up the difficulty?

In any event, Bravo to CA, so far, it appears that a LOT of annoyances have been brought under control.