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Originally Posted by chrispedersen

Actually, I thought MoM's AI was pretty damn good.
Sure beatable. But varied, effective, and never a pushover.

That said, I wouldn't care one iota if the game shipped without an AI, and was just mp.

I know I'm in the minority on that one.

Actually the AI in MOM was never varied, never effective and always a pushover. Changing the difficulty settings only allowed the AI to cheat on unit production and spell research, power etc. AI is ridiculously hard to make challenging though so I don't fault MOM, Dominions or any other game in that corner. The interesting thing about Elemental is that AI is Brad Wardell's specialty. So the AI should be noticeably better than MoM or Dominions.

MOM for me nowadays is just an RPG where I loot all the magic sites on the maps, no matter the difficulty level. Dominions I can still make challenging via modding and custom maps, so even with the terrible AIs, I still get a challenge and lots of fun out of both games.