Quote Originally Posted by dhague
OK, I tried "balanced genghis" and saw the same pattern. The only thought that I have is that all of my testing was done on M/M. Could it be that the non-roman AI factions (regardless of classification) only get really aggressive on H/H and VH/VH???

As a matter of fact, playing oh h/h or vh/vh is a good idea. To me, medium is for amateur players only interested in building and not fighting. I have mine set on h/h, and by the way things progressed with the AI factions I'm pretty sure it'll be too hard on vh/vh. Try doing h/h first, and see how it goes. Also, if you want the starting armies for the ai factions to be bigger, under the general's name with his units, in descr_strat, just add more units but remember not to exceed 20 units per general. In the end, it all counts on how many enemies a given AI faction has. eg, carthage might be fighting 4 other factions, and if you also fight carthage one of the reason they might have a small quantity of units is that maybe their men just simply depleted after all the fighting. That's why sometimes I end my turn a few times and give them a chance to build back up. Besides all this, the only other way to make the ai factions gather men quickly is to go to export_units and change the duration for training..eg, warband for gauls takes 1 turn...If you change that to 0, then every turn the gauls will be able to train a full queue of men, awesome, ain't it? Do that and lemme know how it goes..