CoH: AI

Is it just me or is the Company of Heroes Tales of Valor 2.600 skirmish AI far better? I remember a year back playing just the normal CoH and I could take on up to hard with no real difficulty. Expert proved to be a decent challenge but the AI would usually make stupid moves which allowed me to win in the end.

Now, hard difficulty is giving me problems. I don't whether it's just me, the map I use or it's really an AI improvement. Well I do notice some AI improvements like the AI now actually picks up weapon drops and recrews anti tank guns yet sometimes it's a bit stupid since he sometimes lets his troops go into a suicide capture. Well I've searched around and Relic did improve the AI no wonder I'm getting frustrated with skirmish mode. Well I have been doing crazy strategies lately, like trying to do a rush to tier 4 after tier 1 but I could do that before at expert with no problem.

Funny how I wanted better AI and now the damn AI is kicking my ass. Maybe it's just Angoville...I seem to lose at this map at hard and expert levels yet I can take on hard on some other maps. Does skirmish rank improve the AI? I haven't seen any forum posts and news reports on that. It would definitely be interesting that your skirmish rank determines the AI difficulty.

Oh yeah, planetCoH has an interview with Relic and Relic did state that Tales of Valor was actually DLC but they had problems in distributing it so they packed it up in a expansion. So I wonder if they are planning a real expansion for Company of Heroes. Also, I'd love to try the multiplayer modes in single player but Relic didn't put in a AI for those modes(well the campaign is sort of the single player version of it).