Maybe so i have a more non blitzkrieg advance rate true the AI has rarely defeated me(only the native Americans managed it toe to toe other than that maybe while outnumbered some 2-3 to one)
It does not go for the cities and that's important if you have few cities even more so while i find the scorched earth tactic adequate if you have something like 5 plus provinces as the AI can't take you out but if I'm Prussia and the AI Austria it could send 2 stacks and take Berlin without having to burn the countryside and I'd be dead the AI lacks the killer blow tactic so to say:D