Well how about just remove the gladiators from pythium.. it'd not make it less of a player nation and indeed the AI might be able to use the troops and those mages fairly well.
Maybe a nation like pythium with some death magic instead of astral or air (but that seems like ermor
) is AI good with MA ermor?
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