Too much AI cheating

[minecraft with gadget]

I guess the main appeal here is multiplayer, but the amount of handicap buffs the AI gets in skirmishes or singleplayer missions is insane. On Normal difficulty their soldiers do more damage, have higher health, shoot further and more accurately, their vehicles penetrate more armor and score more frequent "critical" hits on your vehicles, and obviously they get more units faster than you can. You'd expect the Normal difficulty of a game to be an even playing field, but here it's not, and Easy is too braindead easy to be fun. Really wish they'd either make a new difficulty to replace "normal" or cut out the boatload of AI buffs from the current difficulty. The AI isn't that stupid. It doesn't need to be this overpowered in unit stats on the standard game difficulty.

[Arpente Reves]

uhh
On normal difficult you get a slight health bonus and they get a slight health malus. As for shooting, check which soldiers they are sending. I don't remember if they send anything else than regular soldiers.
Vehicles data are more or less hardcoded in the games, so no they won't pen more armor and score more critical hits. The only advantage they have is that they seem to have the maximum "preparation accuracy" (when you shoot multiple time at a same spot and get higher accuracy) much faster

The only thing difficulties change are, iirc, what they send against you, how many, and your soldiers' HP

[UCEY]

"AI cheating"

PFFFFFFFFFFF