What determines AI recruitment?

[meerkatology]

does the AI have different army templates for different turn numbers?

or do they decide based on other factors?

I tried to reduce upkeep/cost for AI, i noticed when stacked with other factors AI levy units can go down to like 1 gold upkeep, im wondering if this would make the AI make all levy units since they are more value per gold?

[Dresden]

They have templates that tell them to recruit X number of spearmen, Y number of cav etc. Then they have values assigned to each unit, where elites are higher value. Where possible they try to recruit the better units.

[meerkatology]

cool thx