Not sure why King would be the best difficulty though, Prince is the one where everything is even.
Well no, it's actually not, because the player is human <.<
The AI needs the handicap to be a challenge to someone that knows what they're doing.
That might not be the case anymore though because they seems to have seriously buffed the AI's intelligence... having some big trouble against them on King in my 2 games I've played since the expansion.
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