The ai imo has improved since RTW. That being said, it still has much faults. Personally, I think the battle ai is half decent like it wont do anything that incredibly stupid, but any decent player can easily win outnumbered. The bigger problem is the campaign map ai. They just have a horrible sense of economics and somehow thinks that they must spend every penny they have every turn or someone will come out and take it. What ends up happening is that they spend a huge amount of money creating this huge militia armies whose upkeep doesn't allow them to upgrade their cities hence forcing them to only rely on militias until late in the game.
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