You will find the AI is much better in MTW (still needs work but...)
I actually had an AI general refuse to commit his core troops and run me around the battlefield...he actually ran my horse archers out of ammo. All the "padding" was killed but it left me with either a withdrawl or a bloody battle against spears and a RK (the HA were all I had on the field)
The bonuses to morale for the higher settings make the game much more challenging; in some cases the AI appears to get a lil smarter as well.
Reccomended reading: Frogbeastegg: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=31445
and anything else in the Guides section that looks interesting![]()
Enjoy :)
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