I've noticed another problem of the AI in spacebattles. At one point it stops sending in more reinforcements, like once I was attacked by like 100 Y-Wings 40 X-Wings and millions of millions of corvettes after like the 2nd wave it stopped sending in more reinforcements and so I barely was able to win the battle against them (I had like only 4 damaged VSDs left without any fighter support and my tartans were already dead) so instead of being overwhelmed by the fighters I got away with a smooth victory..... Apart from that and the fleet composition i think the space battle AI is quite okish. The ground AI of course is a different story .... its rather disappointing, although it does have its good moments and it sometimes IS active but sometimes it just sits there and gets slaughtered ..... But apart from that I found EAW to be more fun (battlewise) compared to the Total War games, where the AI was a pure walkover (1000men slaughtered by an inferior force for just 10 losses etc...)