Friendly AI is Just Horrible?
3v3v3v3 Extreme Skirmish with all AI allies and enemies. No matter the map or starting position, it feels pretty consistent that my allies are just far worse than the enemies.
I have to reach my tower limit splitting 50/50 to defend both my allies or else they get steamrolled 1v1 against an enemy AI. I finally get to wonder age with fully upgraded units, start spamming fire giants, Hersir, Jarls, and Nidhoggs as Loki. I can also flaming weapons pretty much every fight.
But it's just not enough. It got down to a 3v3, but somehow I'm having to single-handedly fight all 3 AI opponents (who are also wonder age). My teammates are not expanding, not researching technologies, not developing their economies or providing military support. It's very hard for me to make progress on 1000+ pop unit spam from 3 extreme AI. Once the game got past an hour, I checked in with my teammates. One had precisely 0 military anywhere to be seen, the other had amassed an army of 1 catapult, 1 siege tower, 1 camel rider (no upgrades,) and 3 medium slingers. He had at least 20 minutes of not being attacked in mythic age, and he had maybe 30 or so villagers across 2 TCs.
What gives? I've read on here that AI are thrown off by human teammates as they aren't able to coordinate effectively, but from my experience, the more apt description would be that human teammates cause the AI to shut down completely... they are totally irrelevant to the game. It makes playing big team games at a high difficulty just straight up unfair. It feels like FFAs are the only way to play skirmishes without cheesing micro. Does anyone have any insight/similar experience?