The AI types you are fighting determine how the AI behaves and what ships and defenses it is able to use against you. Some types only give the AI access to extra units, while others radically alter its behavior. Some types are so defense-oriented they don't even launch regular waves, while others are extremely offense-oriented. The type you're up against can greatly influence how you play the game.
Note that this is for AI War 2.
AI Opponent Types by Difficulty
Easier
| AI Name
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Wave or Ship Types
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Additional Spawns and Unlocks
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Description
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| Full Ensemble
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The Full Ensemble gets access to most of the AIs 'normal' ships
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Nothing
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Hugely varied AI in terms of what its planets are like. However, it doesn't use any niche tactics... usually.
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Simple Ensemble
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The Simple Ensemble gets access to a subset of the Full Ensemble's ships, minus the more esoteric variants
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Very solid, generalist AI. Nothing fancy
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One-Way Doormaster
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Black Hole Machines on most planets
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The presence of so many Black Hole Machines will cause problems to the player as they move ships around, and will increase the AIP as the player destroys them.
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Shield Hater
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Focuses on anti-defense and anti-shield ships
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Generalist AI other than its focus on particular ships
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Overreactive
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Sends much larger Counterattacks when human ships spend a lot of time ineffectually dying on its planets.
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Bar Fighter
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Reacts violently to any attacks on its planets; rarely retreats and almost always prefers to fight
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Moderate
| AI Name
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Wave or Ship Types
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Additional Spawns and Unlocks
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Description
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Vanguard
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Focuses on regular Guardians instead of strikecraft
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Similar to the Royal AI, but instead of getting Royal Guardians it gets regular Guardians. Requires The Neinzul Abyss expansion
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Gladiator
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Gets access to Zenith Architrave Ships
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Gets ZA-themed defensive structures on many planets
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Generalist AI with new units available; Requires Zenith Onslaught expansion
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Peace Maker
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Gets lots of Ion Cannons and Mass Drivers
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Generalist AI alongside the extra defenses
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Quadratic
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Each incoming wave is about twice as large as the previous one
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With every normal wave it sends, it doubles the minimum strength of wave that it is willing to send. This tends to lead to waves that take much longer to 'charge' (before being announced), but eventually leads to VERY large waves.
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Hard
| AI Name
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Wave or Ship Types
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Additional Spawns and Unlocks
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Description
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Brutal
| AI Name
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Wave or Ship Types
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Additional Spawns and Unlocks
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Description
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Vengeful
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Gets extra exowaves.
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Generalist AI that retaliates with (relatively) small exogalactic attacks whenever you destroy it's guardposts, warpgates, command stations, data centres, and more. Requires Zenith Onslaught Expansion.
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The Beast
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Has access to strengthened versions of Nanocaust units.
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Generalist AI with access to powerful Nanocaust units that can require specialised strategies to deal with. Requires Zenith Onslaught Expansion.
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