Lol. I was gonna just lurk on the forums - but this made me laugh.

I notice that the monsters are dicks, nice to see they are doing it to the AI too, but they are getting genocided in the early game.

I think monster AI needs a little tweaking

Wow. That's a good (and funny) find.

In most cases, are the monsters attacking the sovereign because he's in their territory or is the sovereign being foolish trying to attack a monster he/she can't defeat?

Personally I would prefer that the monster lose his targeting of the sovereign (or champion) if either is defeated.  Seems like a simple solution, but I don't know if it would pose a programming challenge.

Don't quickly dismiss a mistake - there are some opportunities here. 

My idea - turn this into a random value/world event.  For instance, randomly, if a monster kills your sovereign, sometimes have the monster declare a vendetta or something to that effect where it will do anything to kill your hero immediately.   Have a pop up message appear whenever this happens.  I think this adds a layer of depth as, even though you got your arse whooped, now it could be MUCH worse.  Also, this covers making your sovereigns death even more painful.  I mean, c'mon, if your king dies or barely escapes dying - that should be a pretty big deal.  This is a great way to capitalize on that. 

Even if you are only talking about monsters vs AI, making this a world event gives great intel to everyone (eg the leader died and a monster is planning on destroying them... hmm... what should i do immediately?).

  I think pacov makes a good point.  When a monster targets a Sovereign to the point that he will pursue Double Kills, it should be treated as an Announced Event.  It should not happen often; but it would be a shame if it never happened.  I know the Environment is supposed to be hostile to the human players; but that shouldn't mean that monsters will never attack computer players.

I have a proposed solution that should fix this and the general issue of "un-fun randomness" when it comes to your start (I sometimes find no recruitable champions anywhere near my start, and instead a lot of "Strong" and "Deadly" mobs of monsters -- umm, and my n00b leader should found a city next to them!?

When creating a new game, there should be a starting bias that only weak monsters are near any of the starting areas for players (human or AI).  Maybe if the game is set to a higher difficulty, the human player has an increased chance of starting near higher-level monsters, but ... when you are starting a game, generally you want to play a game, not suddenly win after 10 or 50 turns in because monsters have killed all the AI, or -- just as bad -- a high-level monster kills you off doing the same thing to you.

I have seen AI killed off within 100 turns and ive also seen monsters totally ignore AI towns and units and come after me.  I know there is a grace period for the monsters attacking and wandering, but I find it strange they will ignore the AI more than me.  Course Im uber and all, but still!!

"Lord Relias, you are wounded! What happened?"

"A Cave Bear trashed me, I dragged myself home..."

"A Cave Bear? Does it look like that one?"

*ROOOOOOAAAAR*

Haha this is awesome glad you fixed it - can't wait for the next patch

Monsters can path and see through fog???

That's a great point. I believe the AI opponents can't, but monsters being able to seems like cheating or a bug.