Well alot of the variation depends apon how someone plays the game. The different tactics people use, army compositions, and wether someone will go to great lengths to exploit AI weaknesses. Such as mass HA or something similar. I like to make fairly balanced armies and my strategy is usually about maintaining a strong center so one of my flanks can wrap around theirs. Its the same thing I used in M:TW, pin their units on something with alot of defense while the others do the work.

Since this doesn't use mass archer fire/cavalry(things M:TW was never good at dealing with either) perhaps thats why my experiences aren't as bad as everyone elses. Theres also some people who will pull no punches when fighting the AI and use every exploit, trick, etc.. around to beat them and get mad when the AI loses badly because of this. But, its up to each person to decide for themselves how to play the game. I just don't understand why the people I just mentioned come to post about how its no fun when they do that, I mean what did they expect?