[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Lach:
The province it is built in gets full resources, neighboring provinces get the administration %?

No, the province it is built in get full resources, neighbouring provinces lose resources according to the admin percentage, which go to the province with the castle.

Okay... the AI cheats and I am certain of it. I managed to get a REALLY strong border... covered a good size of territory and only 4 entrances, one of which is hard to get to!

The only difference between the AI and yourself is the number of points it gets to make its pretender, and that it knows which provinces you control. On normal, you get the same amount of points, on easy, it gets less, and on impossible, it gets more. After that, you are playing by the same rules. The AI just uses huge hordes of the cheapest troops, built in every province that it can, which you could do yourself if you had as much patience as it.

Within two turns of doing this the AI on the other side of me, who could not possibly see that are, who had no armies on that side of the world and who had no global spells to reveal the area, massed 450 units on my other side.....

The AI knows what provinces you control, and can gather any other informationn via scouts, which it uses a lot of.