Now that I've written this post, I'm thinking of a couple other things....
-Monster armies/units will still chase AI pioneers around in circles as they seem to still move at the same time, so the monster can never catch them. Don't see that as often with AI armies, but with pioneers, all the time.
- I need to turn off the undead DLC unless I am going to play as the dead, as the AI still is not competent at that. Any chance the AI will get some type of better instruction as far as a playing strategy as the Dead?