Difficulty level. Does it affect ai behavior and not just boni?

[anihilato]

Changing the difficulty from normal to hard means the AI gets a bunch of bonuses. But does anyone know if it makes the AI play smarter? Or if it plays the same but just with more manpower, less revolts and less coalitions? Are there more effects than just the ones listed in the wiki?

 

[PhoenixG]

It used to be that in normal dif to give the player a litle shield when you busy fighting in a war the chance you get attacked by another smaller. But they removed it in the current patch. So no, the AI is the same.