Difficulty level

[Ludens]

Normal and Hard don't give any bonuses. Personally I mostly play the hard difficullty and rarely the expert, because I like to use tactics that rout the enemy units off the field, not butcher them to almost the last man and artificially inflate my own unit's valour.

Actually, the M:TW A.I. does get a small combat bonus on hard, but it is barely noticable. Expert gives a slightly bigger combat bonus as well as +4 morale to the A.I. In R:TW off course the A.I. get a clear combat bonus on hard and an even larger one at very hard.

[caravel]

Sorry, I was all the time referring to the morale bonuses not the other combat bonuses. I should have made myself clearer.

[patlv23]

Sorry, forgot to mark this as MTW

Alright, got it. Sometimes I have games where I immediately withdraw from the field so I can watch the AI duke it out. Just wanted to find out if the non-allied AI gets any advantage.

Thank you all for the replies :)

[Sensei Warrior]

I guess the question was already answered.

I never play on Expert, sticking to Normal or Hard. Although I never thought about the morale bonus allowing you to artificially inflate kill numbers. Maybe that's why I never get magnificent attacker, or maybe its just my bad tactics. hmm.