prepping for beginning expansion

[HJ]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
The setting of 3 is more in favor of the AI than human players.

Actually, higher settings benefits the AI as well, as the AI shows up with bigger armies that they need to accumulate to conquer indies at 6+. This also means more national troops, and less mad rushes with militia armies who are either insufficient to conquer indie provinces, or get killed in the process. If by "benefit" you meant that they get more provinces more quickly, that's true, but they get to use them better and more thoroughly (as well as their home province) on higher settings. In my experience, in its current state the AI plays best (as in - provides the best opposition) with indies at 6-7, rich world and sites at 50.