Heh. As for the bug, the AI appears to be cheating or something of the sort. What difficulty setting did you use for that opponent?
Large map - All factions but one on the map (lag feast). Normal mode for the map and the factions.
Started out fine. Found my Empire neighbor, rushed him to claim his resources. Found that my entire map had no iron at all. On a 5x5 grid, by late game, I was controlling a good 1/3 of it and still had no iron until I took over a 4th faction, Guildon?, that had a ton of seige machines. Found they had around 8 iron nodes all throughout their territory. I got by with a standard leather + spear combo for the longest while, but when Yithril declared war, I had only just begun making armored units and simply couldn't make them fast enough with the enemy "hero" units coming.
65 hps / 400 atk / 100 def for a single enemy unit? 2-3 in a row? If you miss, you're unit is basically dead unless it's a company and you just lost half of it in that one attack.
This game gets frustrating with some of the stupid stuff like this. Are all stardock games like this or did I just find the rotten egg of the batch? 
