so this is the first mod for this game i ever got, quickly realized i was not at the skill level required to play it. i have since dominated the galactic conquests of the base game, thrawn's revenge, and fall of the republic.

I am used to AI cheating in strategy games, it is an annoying but constant fact. however this one seems a little extreme. I played a bit again, went back to corey's mods, and decided to give this one a shot one more time. I'm not sure what i'm doing wrong so i'll put my most recent situations here.

most recently started as rebels, moved some stuff around, picked which planets i would have to abandon (as I know trying to hold every starting planet is futile) and started bolstering my forces. before i could even build a frigate the empire hit me with a fleet consisting of 3 ISDs, 4 victory's, 2 venators, and other supporting vessels, plus vader in his ISD. had 2 ISDs, vader, victory, venator, and about a dozen smaller vessels on screen at any given time, not to mention the absolute HORDE of fighters. couldn't stop them and i was out by week 10.

was curious so i started a campaign as the empire, was able to find 2 maybe 3 victory's and as many venators. with no ISDs to speak of outside of them.

this happens nearly everytime i play this mod, regardless of the faction I play as by weeks 10 through 20 the enemy is sending amassed fleets of some of their best ships, which i can't even access until much later when i use their factions. a few times i have gotten lucky and they didn't *immediately* steamroll me and i've managed to get further ahead, even managed to get home one via the mission as the rebels once(only to lose it to a much too large fleet of attacking ISDs the next week)

Corey's mods have the same problem(nearly everytime i play his i get hammered by dreadnoughts like the malevolence or praetor or executor every few minutes) but in his i can usually scramble together a large enough force to atleast hold the tide somewhere.

also, hero's. I've noticed in the few games that get this far whenever i kill an enemy hero they usually pop back up within a week, but mine will sometimes just cease to exist after a battle, even if i didn't lose them. vader i almost always end up losing because of a massive rebel fighter swarm killing him directly or just a solid wall of mon calamari cruisers attacking and killing his star destroyer.

Am i just that bad at the game or is something wrong here? any tips or advice would be welcome because I do *really* like this mod. it just sometimes feels like the AI has such a large advantage even on normal difficulty that there is no point in trying to play.