Yes, I mean it. So far I've played 4 campaigns in EB (not fully, since 3 were 0.81 that became incompatible with the hotfix) and it seems like there is no discernible pattern, especially in AI aggresiveness. I've personally played as Romani, Carthage, Sweboz, Romani again (current campaign) and its behaved differently each time. In the first three, the AI was expansionistic and very aggressive towards my faction in 2 of the 3 (my Romani and Carthage one), to the point where I was getting worried that my economy might implode (in Romani) or that I had severely stretched my frontier to an untenable position (Carthage). Incidentally, in one the AS beat the Ptolies up and in the other the Ptolies came out ahead. In both the Sweboz and Gallic factions expanded nicely as well, but the Sweboz only became true monsters in the 0.81 Romani game. However, my Sweboz and 0.81a Romani campaign feature(d) almost no expansion with the exception of the AS/Ptolie war and the inevitable Baktria/Pahlava war. In fact, it seems like the AI is completely dead in my 0.81a game. The only things of note are the AS-Ptolie Alliance which has let AS chew into Baktria and the Arveni and Aedui each taking two or three settlements by 230BC. The only real constant is that the Casse in all 4 campaigns have slowly been working on unifying the isles. So what gives? Why is the AI seemingly on and off with being aggressive? Ironically, I never had that problem in vanilla.