AI bonuses

I was wondering about how the difficulty levels will affect the AI. Will it still receive only stat boosts in battles?

probably statboost to but not as much as in empire, because now they can make the AI concentrate on more than one point in battle field which should get rid off the melee bug, make it harder when this is done good and let's hope the lines won't be crappy this time. I think it does it more effective from Easy to Hard.

I read something in a preview that suggested that different difficulties changed how many "points of focus" the enemy has on you. So for example on hard it may attack at multiple points at once. This sounds better.