First off, loving the game so far. There simply aren't enough games that allow you to be this creative. However, i have found, especially in combat situations, the game is simply far too easy. A couple of flamethrowers can easily win queens fodder, and fire in general can decimate enemy ranks. I think an excellent way to address this would be to have players face other AI controlled war engines, perhaps even ones supporting groups of archers, knights and stationary cannons in a combined arms sort of way. What i think would be really awesome is if the AI could be given control of player created machines, so that after a player creates the very efficient machine they could design another with the sole purpose of defeating their previous designs. That said, i could see issues with the AI struggling to adapt to player created designs. If the devs could make their opinion on this known it would be much appreciated.