Summary of BtS Changes to Difficulty and AI

[Vladesch]

Ive been playing on monarch (and mostly losing) on warlords, so I figured I'd try my first BTS game on prince, and it seems to me the AI is much weaker. My start wasn't anything special, but I basically just out-built and out-teched the AI without ever bothering to attack.

Recently I just got attacked by the Greeks who are next to me at half the score. That was nice of them, since I can easily take their cities with riflemen against knights and mace-men. I have about 4x as much espionage score as them, and its quite amusing to inspect their cities and see the massive unhappiness through several tacks of units sacrificed trying to attack on of my cities. It was obvious he didn't have the troops to do it.

 

[sneaky]

Has anybody yet noticed whether or not the AI really is aiming for victories other than Space Race, as promised? Any signs of Cultural or Domination victory attempts?

I have heard various stories of cultural and diplomatic victories so far. Not of Dominations victories, although I think that's a matter of time.