About the starting positions...you can set that in maps, but whereas you view starting in a corner as an advantage, I think it's a disadvantage. Starting near but not touching a corner would probably be optimal, but in one limits nearby provinces too much for my liking. I remember one game where I started in the one spot in the map with only one adjacent land province. Let's just say my capitol's admin didn't help much.
And about the AI firing at commanders...thinking of it I have seen that at least once from the troll archer, who targets my leaders and kills them one by one. Can't think of anyone else doing it, but if we bother the developers they'll probably fix it in the next patch.
[ January 29, 2004, 04:46: Message edited by: LordArioch ]