[licker]

Yeah, your way of looking at it is probably a little bit better than what I described. Each style will have all the sub-style included in it, but each sub-style will have a weight attached to it. Those weights are what will change based on the inputs.

There still needs to be an overriding goal though, victory through might, through magic, through dominion (blessings), ... then the weights for recruitment, research, artificing, ... are doled out. Further each area would have sub areas depending on the top style, so recruitment would have heavy, medium, light, research would have the different schools weighted (or just scripted for a particular spell or combo), artificing also by gem income and combos...

This still doesn't adress the strategic moves made, but it does give a better (maybe?) framework from which the AI can make those moves. Without the right resources and backup no amount of brialliance on the map will help the AI become competative with humans (unless you start giving it massive cheats...)