Just my experience, but so far, playing on Med/Med (I just want to see all the pretty buildings and units), it seems that whatever you guys did to give the AI more money, you might have gone a little overboard.

Examples:

1. Playing as Bactria, go to war with Selucia. After first couple of battles, I am now getting spammed with all-cav armies. Every one of these (seen 3 stacks so far of between 5-9 cav plus a handful of assorted trash foot) is as expensive as my entire army. They have also managed to hold on to all of their starting provinces, and expand some in Arabia and Asia Minor. I know they have a big economy, but they have money to burn if they are buying all cav.

2. My spy wandered over to Italy, just because. Scanning Roman stacks, I counted: 15 out of 18 units were triarii...and 2 of the other 3 appeared to be hired mercenaries. Once again, a sure sign the AI is overflowing with cash.

3. Playing as Makedonia the other day, noticed Mytelene get bribed, on average, every other turn for 8 turns (started out mine, then Epeirote, then Greek, then Hayasdan). The Greek one might have been a revolt though. The Hayasdan immediatly bought 19 mercs to hold it!

4. Protectorates- if you make an AI country your protectorate, you get, basically, all the cash you will ever need. Like, 25K+ per turn. This was from a 2 province Pontus. Which also had two full stack armies and at least 10 units in each city.

So, this is on Medium...I shudder to see how much the AI has to waste on VH. I realize that in part, this is an attempt to make up for CAs very weak AI, but maybe something a little less heavy-handed might be more fun? As the Makedonians, I didn't mind, it made it pretty challenging. As the Bactrians, I basically am getting swamped with units- it's not hard, it's annoying.

Iskandr