In others news about the AI, why the AI don't link its cities with outposts more often? I have this expert level game where Krax has something like 12 settlers looking at the sky (or flowers, whatever) and half the cities are still not linked to his capital.
Plus having a group of 3 settlers standing in a tile next to an ogre lair, is it not a problem? Well perhaps not, if the AI don't get attacked as often as the player by AI monsters...
That quite easier to say the AI is good and will beat us, if not everything is equal between them and us. 