[thejeff]

I'd disagree about including gods from most of the guides. Those are often very focused on a particular strategy that the AI isn't going to implement. If you take that god, then build troops haphazardly like the AI does, you're not going to get decent results, possibly worse than random.
Example: Baalz's Eriu guide. The god design is all about getting a bless for Sidhe Lords, so that with minimal gear they can be impressive raiders. The AI simply won't do that, so the bless will be wasted. Used occasionally on the troop sacreds who it isn't designed for.

The AI generally does better with more generic high-scale builds than the more optimized and focused designs.

That said, there are guides that are more general, whose suggestions would make good pretenders.