Re: Endgame
Hmmm. But the AI doesn't do well with huge chaff armies in the endgame (because it can't handle SCs). On the other hand, it does pretty okay with Thunderstrike/Lightning Orb/Disintegrate/etc. if it gets that far in research. After all, the AI uses pretty much the same battle AI that you do except that AFAIK it doesn't script it. Intuitively I think it's plausible that the AI benefits from easy research (which effectively drops each spell a researchlevel).
As an aside, note that the spell research formula is a Fibonacci-like recurrence relation:
C1 = 40
C2 = 60
CN = C(N-2) + C(N-1)
Dropping research to easy makes C1 = 20, C2 = 40, C3 = 60, etc.
Anyway, I've found that the AI actually does pretty well at research (on Impossible) until I pull ahead economically and start building more mages and skull mentors than he can afford.
-Max
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