The last build i have played is .0981 (I have been away for the weekend).

What i want to know is how good in the AI at exploiting the faction's 'BIG' thing, so that the Factions are indeed Big (and so don't have to go home). In .0981 i felt that the AI was not always exploiting the Faction's power. For instance:

Procipine: I kept seeing Procipine running around fighting things with a sword, she was normally a warrior or assassin. She should be a caster unless there is a very good reason. 

Markinn: I did get beat by him, he had built a lot of Shield Wall and sent a good 15 stacks of them at me I was in a solid mid game point and had a decent amount of Mana but could not hold him and move forward and attack, in the end him overwhelmed me. It was nice move.

Kraxis: He collected two or three large stacks of heroes and units near my border and did nothing with all game, letting me win and not leveling all the heroes he had.

Magna: I haven't seen him make lots and lots of effective slave spear men and use them.

Ceresa: She has never cast the high level death spells at me destroying whole stacks in the process and the demons from the Shards don't level up and become effective.

Relia: I haven't seen him do the henchmen thing properly, when i do it i end up with level 10 - 15 henchmen - there great.

Lady Irane: does not appear in my games.

I think the rest of the game is getting pretty balanced and is very good to play, so my question is how good is the the AI in 0.983.