Yes! Finally! The A.I. beat me tactically!!!!

[Elmar Bijlsma]

Actually, the fact that it isn't apples with apples is a large part of where CA went wrong.
I not only think too highly of the AI, I don't think too highly of the enviroment it is placed in. Even solid AI would be in trouble, I suspect. It's too much

Since STW and MTW lots of features have been added that looked good on paper but was too much for the AI to handle. It's time for CA to consolidate. Make the AI better able to deal with the environment, and tailor the environment to the capability of the AI were it is out of it's depth.
Some good features need to be dropped I fear, simply because it's beyond the AI we've got now. As basic as the old provinces based movement was, it worked. We needn't go all the way back to that but it does illustrate, less can be more.