> I've had entire games as well where the AI just never built naval or aerial units at all. All I needed to do in that situation was be England and build some ships and I'd basically won.
I think these old games are ripe for having a laugh making your own AI. I wish RA2 was open source to have a poke around at. It's not a skill I have at all and really need some childhood nostalgia to plug away at something like that.
As much as people like to bash Red Alert 3, the AI in that game understood how to use most of the mechanics, including shipbuilding and shore bombardment.