Re: SP Challenge
NI maps are no indy maps. They stop the AI spending silly amounts of gold on independant troops by removing them from the game(they can still be recruited from special sites) and gets the AI to purchase more of their generally superior national troops.
Designing the AI gods and playing a little for them can help - particularly to stop them from making incredibly silly choices such as death3 and a nation full of old mages or very positive scales with LA Ermor but, IIRC, setting a nation to AI makes them default to normal level AI so they may not be as much of a challenge as, for example, an impossible AI.
Making a game on a no indys map, giving the AI a nation with powerful national troops(the heims/abysia ect) and either setting them to impossible or giving them order3, growth3, prod3 and then setting them AI gives them something they can work pretty well with(basic units and lots of gold/resources).
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