Newbie Questions (on the AI)

[Arryn]

Once you find that you can consistently beat the AI almost every time (barring bad random events that may cripple you early on) with a given nation, then it's time to switch and try some other nation. Before you can master all 17 nations, and the many themes, there'll be new mods and patches that will alter the game sufficiently for you to have to try to re-master it all over again. In short, anyone who claims to be an expert is either cheating vs. the AI, or lying. There aren't enough hours in a week to do the amount of gaming they'd need to do.