The battle AI is hot and cold really.

Sometimes when then enemy advance, they advance in a line and perform very well. All too often, however they come one by one and get shot down, or move as a blob and fight as a blob and get shot down as a blob.

It should be able to recognise when it has an advantage in a shootout and simply mobilise itself into a shooting position, especially when I have my men standing waiting for a shootout.

I'm not all that fussed though. As I said, it has its moments of competence and provides a challenging battle. Also I recognise CA has added a lot to this game and wouldn't have had vast amounts of time to work on the battle AI. I would expect if the next game or even an expansion uses this type of warfare we would see massive improvements in battle AI.