Quote Originally Posted by Come Together
Judging the AI on custom battles is rather missleading. I have the belief that the AI is considerably worse in custom battles then that of a campaign battle.
IIRC someone reported the same a few months ago in the battlefield A.I. research thread, but it wasn't proven. To be honest, I think the A.I. performs better in custom battles, but this may be because I use a less skirmishing and less cavalry than during campaign-battles. I've had very little experience with either 1.3 or 1.5, though.