The AI is as repulsive as the game itself. A simple example: the Naga have a Tier 2 unit, "Frost Spirits" or something like that. The Spirits have an active ability that creates a puddle, which deals VERY high damage when passing through each cell of this puddle. So, if you pass through 2 cells, about half of the army dies in a roughly equal battle; if you pass through 4 cells (diagonally), the entire army dies. The AI doesn't see this puddle and walks through it diagonally, stupidly killing its entire army. /facepalm
Also, the auto-battles are annoying because of the AI's stupidity (it manages to lose units for no reason) and because it spends half of the mana pool of a level 30 hero, whose mana pool is far over 1k+.
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And the puddle thing is absolutely true; it was the same in the beta. In fact, in Heroes 5, there were also some funny things, for example, when fighting against Archmages, and you fly away with a Griffin (it's the only unit), the Archmages start throwing Fireballs at each other :D At least, that's what happened to me.
Асха все обращает на пользу... :smile16: