How can I beat the moderate a.i. difficulty when it cheats so much?

[WoeIsToWho]

Extreme heavy cheating of AI on higher difficulties

The AI doesn’t cheat on any difficulty if you’re using the one that comes with the game. I’m sorry to tell you, but I can cleanly, easily handle two of the DE AI by myself, either by rushing it or by booming against it and beating it cold with better play, even massively outnumbered, with a large handful of the civs. The fact you believe that they cheat in any regard means you probably have a lot to learn and improve on. The AI isn’t even that good and I can give it a full minute headstart in …

Don’t think I’d be able to win a 2v1 against the current Extreme AI without a keyboard though, even if I knew how to use a controller. That’s whack