Does the Ai get free stacks? Im currently playing as Gongsun Du (Top Right behind Gongsun Zan) I allied with Yuan Shao right at the beginning and then attacked Gongsun Zan and pushed him to his capital which the yuan captured. I bought it from yuan clan then began fighting off the 3-4 stacks of horse archer barbarians that invaded me from the north (Wuwan Steps) Then after that was dealt with i invaded the bandits from the north while the Yuan hit from the south and (For some reason) As soon as i captured that northern gate above there capital like half there cities went Rebel.. Thats one odd issue i noticed.
After dealing with the bandits the next plan was to attack Guan Du from the east so the Yuan clan could invade the central plains
I moved my considerable navy(almost 20 Ships) down to attack Pu Yang which was the last territory lubu had and i had a pretty nice income and dropped 4 stacks along with 2 spys a diplomat and merchant right on him and took the city only to see to my horror that every faction in the central plains even those only owning maybe 4 cities had 10 or more stacks!!! I had 4 and a navy with 10 cities and could have afforded maybe 1 more stack before i probably would have went in the hole.
Needless to say Cao cao attacked Pu yang with stack after stack and i killed them one after another until he killed my entire army and he still had at least 10 stacks left.. What in the actual &^%$.. and the entire time Yuan clan with probably close to 20 stacks, the guy that starts off east of lubu and his 10+stacks and the Liu clan with there 4-5 All enemy's of cao cao just sat there doing nothing..
Moral of the story,
To many stacks, Ai gets 10 to your 3 its rediculous.
Passive AI
Short campaign made extremely long because you have to grind down 40 stacks while trying to keep 4 decent stacks alive long enough to take a city.
Love this mod anyway but we need a fix of some kind guys.