@Seleukos
You have absolutely right about the awarness of scripts by AI , i mention it myself on you on the conversation about the rome vs Epirus script ( do you still think of include it on later versions of Hellenism? ) . I believe the frustration of 3 one after another suicide exodus from the AI make me to wright on you on haste and without thinking
to be fair now the AI in general seem to be more reasonable, I rarely see transport ship to attack cities or full stack fleets for example, which is a releaf!
What the AE mod does is turn off the attrition for the besieger i think. Anyway i like this feature and i dont want to exclude it as a solution. Nevertheless if you find the pack upload it, id like to give it a try for testing.
As for the Age of Helenism, Ptolemaioi finally got out from their nirvana and conquer the arabian factions. I think the fact that i play as seleucids play a major part for the Ptolemais AI behaviour. AI Rome on the other hand play really well, as you say, they eventually prevale but they struggle more than before.