Re: How mani AI players ias normal?
 

Thanks for the info guys, a lot of it useful. One real dumb question, I found this once and now can't find it. At set up where do you change the strength of the independants? I feel stupid that I actually found it once easily and now can't find it!

Andy

Re: How mani AI players ias normal?
 

You find this easily in the "game setup" screen. This is when you create a new game. You select the nation you want to play by by clicking once on that nation so that it reads "human". On the nations you want to have as AI, you click on these twice so that they read "Easy AI", thrice for "Normal AI", and so on.

(You can only change AI strength at the beginning of a new game, never during an ongoing game.)

Re: How mani AI players ias normal?
 

IT is only visible if you play a non-scenario map (no star next to the map name).
With a non-scenario map, it should be in the screen shown after you have chosen the map you want play with. You could also enable renaming and maybe add more magic sites, both available in that screen.

AI isn't very good in searching sites, and having more of them around makes it easier to see their importance AND it benefits you (the player) more than the AIs.

You can rename your commanders (except those in the Hall of Fame, your pretender or your prophet) only with quite late patch, but it can help both to feel more "in the game" by not having three Alfred the Commanders who you confuse with each other all the time, and to reduce time used in searching commanders by naming commanders after their use (flare the anathemant dragon), magics (FFE the mystic), or items they have equipped (dwarven hammer the master smith).