I play now again SP too .
I had the idea of playing a good scale pretender like an oracle to make it a bit harder and to try nations like Serpent Cult
.
I played Cradle of Zen with 16 players ( Ermor left out ) , all Ais to impossible .
You may laugh now but i lost my games because the Ai's numbers overwhelmed me
. I always had the luck that either Vanheim or Marignon or Jotunheim went to war with me soon .
The Ai hordes even defeated sometimes my Mini-Sc banelords
.
Has the Ai gotten improved a bit in 2.14 or is it only because i play at rather crazy settings ?
Do you play against impossible Ai's too on crowded maps ?
Even my new try with madcastling + VQ is interesting cause i don't get everywhere good enough SCs or Armies to hold of the various 200-500 men AI armies