Quote Originally Posted by DVX BELLORVM
Cheetah, I agree with everything you said, except #1. Not fighting the battles myself would pretty much kill the game.
Unfortunately it is fighting the tactical battles which kills the game. We got to the point where the tactical AI is one of the weakest link in the game and it is a serious handicap for the strategic AI. Just think of that you are the strategic AI producing all the nice troops (full stacks of catapults and such ) and handing it over to your trusted brother the tactical AI. Your trusted brother gets defeated time after time, and not just gets defeated but losing 10 time the troops than he can kill. What would you say in this situation? I probably would say and and ... and would call it a day.

Btw, of course even I cannot resist the temptation to play out interesting battles here and there that offer a challenge (though this is not very frequent) but the level battleground is autoresolve.