i dont know if i can call it a cheat, but something is realy wrong with ai generals. i dont remeber if i ever saw i enemy general with as many bad traits as my best general. they usualy have 3-4 traits, and rarely one of them is bad.
considering money income for enemies is even worst subject.
for example, pontic cities. those guys just like armenians have so many units, that i dont know how they suport them. few times before destroing them, i put my spies in theirs two last cities. one had a minus of about 3000 denarii, and other about 1000 denarii, since they was under my pressure from begginigm there is no way that their cash could be more tahn few thousands denarii, and if u calculate they should be losing about 4000 denarii per turn. now i just wait few turns, so they lose all money, and ability to retraine forces. it just didnt hapened, they allways had new forces, and allways lose money. i mean with Ancyra and Nicomidea u can not support any army, especially not a few full stack armies(hillmans, heavy ontic cavalry and east infantry, even some mercs). but pontic just keep on pumping his army. i mean i had no problem defeating them (with catapfacts u heve nn problems anyway), but this shitng is realy anoing. might be that im mistaking, that their cash reserve was bigger but i just cannot figure out how is that possible?