Terrible Player.

[Bananadine]

I never had major trouble with the Normal-level AI, even starting out... but personally, I rather like the 125 PD thing in games against harder AI's. A maxed-out PD is a maintenance-free grinder that the foolish AI will throw large armies into, one after another. It can pay for itself by wasting enormous amounts of enemy gold, even though it's a hugely expensive investment for you! (But I don't mean to say that turtling behind extreme PD is the BEST strategy to use against the AI, or that Ivy would do well to focus on it--I'm just saying that it does work.)

Surely six or so D2 or better necromancers, with a modest number of guards, can defeat most armies that a Normal-level AI would use? Surely it isn't too hard to blast across the map early with EA Abysia's sacred units and a strong blessing in nature, water, etc. Many, many things can defeat Normal-level AI....