I'm not good enough (yet) to consistently win against the Hard AI, but I noticed something that had me perplexed: I had control of more than 50% of the settlements and was losing the unit numbers battle BADLY. Like 2:1. I'm wondering if the AI cheats so that it can spend fewer resources on more units? It also might just be that I'm not good enough yet at managing my economy and spending my resources on the right kinds of units to be effective, but it just seemed grossly imbalanced. I know other players (apparently) have no difficulty disposing of Brutal AIs, so maybe there is no validity yo my claim. Let me know, and thank you.