I'm 65 turns into a hard battle/hard AI game right now. and fought 44 battles, lost 16. Seems as though it's still very much in favour of me winning. Thinking of going to Vhard/Vhard but don't want to give the enemy an unfair advantage.

My question is...

if I go Vhard/Vhard does the enemy have any unfair advantages or is it just smarter AI. If I charge spearmen against spearmen and the enemy always wins then that wouldn't be right. I just want as balanced a game as possible, where the enemy has as much chance of winning as I do all things given equal and without giving my opponent 'extra strength' units.