AI ship building strategy

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Since I play as evil usually i always find that i'm building the exact same ships. The AI's that I fight always use shield but various weapons, but usually beam weapons, so I find myself ALWAYS using missiles and sometimes mass drivers. I forgot which but one of the two that i use they make minimal armor for. They usually stack their ships with so much shields that i do almost no or completely no damage to them and always lack on everything else. Does each AI have a certain strategy on how to build ships that they go with every game? I havn't fought many evil races yet as their AIs usually suck and get decimated to the point where they are of no threat by the time i kill the races that DOW me so i dont know what they use.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
It depends on the difficulty level.

On "Normal", their defense matches the primary weapons of your newest ships.

On "Tough", I think either they match their defense to whatever weapon they use, or they match it to their most powerful enemy's weapons. I'm not sure which, since every one of them seems to pick the same sort of weapons anyway.