Shooting Commanders

[Alexios]

This kind of battle is the one I enjoy fighting the most. Whether I'm the attacker or the defender, I love it when the enemy comes to me and I have a fairly large hill to perch my spearwall and missile units on. In one such fight, I had my archers and arbs firing in such unison that there was a constant rain of arrows falling in on the enemy. Man, what a beautiful sight that was!

Anyway, to answer your question, I think you will find the Difficult and Expert levels of play completely different then that of Normal and the lower levels. I am currently playing on "Normal," and yeh, I've noticed the AI does some pretty stupid things with its general, like prancing him aimlessly back in forth while my arbs use him for target practice--or worse yet, leading him in a full-frontal charge into my spearmen right at the onset of battle. I don't recall seeing the AI do anything stupid like that while playing on the "Difficult" setting (which I've done only once, by the way).