[Sombre]

Oh the battle AI is pretty good, considering, yeah. It uses evocations etc in a sensible manner.

But the AI doesn't deploy battlemages strategically or anything, it just chucks a few mages along with every stack of guys. Or sometimes just randomly chucks the mages at you without the army.

And does the AI actually script mages? I don't think it does. Other than hold and cast spell, hold and cast spell, attack for those it has deemed to be thugs. If you never script any of your guys you'll find they act exactly the same way as the AI mage support.