Is AI on steroids now?

With latest patch update 169123, AI is all the sudden on steroids again.

Tried two games, and played like I always do, 1 v 2AI (Moderate) – me Spanish, them Full Random – but they’ve wiped me out with ease both times since the patch. Whereas I don’t think I had lost a match for months preceding the patch. Arabia map.

Only reason I knocked orange out in 1st match is through the use of the highly skilled Cobra Cars.

  • I was getting demolished by relentless streams of enemy units from both civs, even though I had fairly heavily damaged one of the AIs early. They somehow came back and had a more formidable military than me within no time, combined with the other AI who, of course, was a post-patch juggernaut

Here were the civs I was up against…

Match 1

Match 2