A discussion here showed that Yarkis' testings were irrelevant : https://www.reddit.com/r/shogun2/comments/1ig7dq5/harder_difficulty_without_ai_cheating/

there is a "no cheat for ai" mod?

Wow thank god the AI is sometimes just RIDICULOUS.

THE UNITS of the enemy cost only 41 per ashigaru lol . its like they have a good chance of outstacking you easily .

SOMETIMES ! they suddenly do cheat ... xD

Thanks. Love Total War and the games, but sometimes I don't want to see another 20 Stack cresting the hill after winning another 1-3 Ratio. Really wish total war would work on improving it's AI and not just loading the opposing side with artificial(You get my meaning) modifiers.

@Boltte I don't think they have anything on Easy, they may be still getting some very small bonuses on Normal though, and they are probably receiving a bonus income regardless of difficulty. I don't have the game installed now, you can check that on the table I mentioned earlier.
@Juukavin
No, that's related to the difficulty bonuses and the general income bonus the AI receives. In my experience, my dynamic caps mod (https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2243747604) prevents the minor clans from doing that without messing with difficulties, but it comes with a whole lot of other changes.

the issue I'm running into is the AI just recruiting an ENTIRE 20 stack with only have 1 settlement does this help that?

I thought AI still get bonuses even on normal and easy difficulty? Or is the bonus just the instant upgrade of units behind fog of war, which your mod fixes and the occupation resistance that someone else tried to fix, but crashes for me when I try to load the mod? So only two bonuses on easy and normal or is there more that you're not telling me....?

For campaign AI, there are things like admin cost reduction, extra income, upkeep reduction etc. etc. it's under campaign_difficulty_handicap_effects . They don't receive any bonuses when playing on Normal, so you can just do that, I'm not aware of any mods

> Doesn't touch the bonuses AI gets from difficulty levels (income, morale etc.).

What other bonuses to the AI get and where do I find mods to remove those?

Thanks for the clarification. Cheers

Hi, this is the updated version, works with all DLCs.

Hi it seems this mod had an updated version for FOTS posted by KURISU PAIFUAA here:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?519382-Yarkis-Reduced-AI-Cheating-Mod&p=13385222&viewfull=1#post13385222

Is this mod uploaded based of that or Yarkis's original upload?
Thanks

Only units not spotted by the player... so spamming agents and single unit light cav armies just for LOS could weaken the AI more than actual armies. That's so wacky.

nice

Thanks so much.

I KNEW THEY CHEATED

thanks

thats good

Glad its fixed, thanks for the update!