[Beck]

I played EU and didn't find the AI in it really any more intelligent than in SE4. It utilizes an excellent rules hierachy in its political system which since it is such a large element of the game may give the impression of intelligence. The system is made to hamper the human player as much as help the AI as there is only so much territory you can demand in a peace treaty for example. But it made as many goofy moves as SE4 does. You offer it a peace proposal that it give you a city province and a colony and it refuses only to offer you 3 city provinces the very next month. I found it very uneven in the handling of units. It too would do the equilvalent of sending single ships through a minefield with its naval ships. It is a little better in its handling of politics because of the rules, but even there it would make bonehead moves like in my Last game. I had Austria down to only its capitol province (which cannot be surrendered) and several 100,000 men armies surrounding it and it would up and declare war one day with its 15,000 men and the next day realizing the folly of its error I guess beg for a white peace.