Hi Gwydden

Thanks for the tip. True, I always play on normal, as I do not like when the AI is playing with handicaps.

Do this for all strategic games in fact, as otherwise I feel like the AI is playing another game then me.

Havent't tried the higher difficulty of EL for while now - fear that it will make a lot of functions useless (e.g.: spying and pillaging becomes irrelevant, AI will see and know everything etc...)

In order to see those kind of armies you have described, I will for sure risk the above and see how the game feels

Do you by chance know what kind of handicaps the AI gets on higher difficulty?

There was a game that managed the handicaps perfectly (no name necessary for free marketing here :)). It had broken down AI difficulty into dumb-down level, aggressiveness into various sliders for the handicaps with an option of course to have these all randomised. That was an awesome solution, but sadly didn't catch on

Cheers

I'm not at all sure, but it may be that you're playing on Normal.

Just yesterday I was playing a game on Hard. My main opponent was a Necrophage AI. I waged three wars against them and had a chance to see that they were using all of their faction units and barely any from minor factions. I mean the whole lineup: Foragers, Drones, Proliferators and Battleborn.

As I said, it may be that you need to increase the difficulty or it may be specific to the Necrophages.