Just started playing this and love it so far but damn, in skirmish is it even possible to defeat hard ai? I've legit tried restarting the same map probably 50 time and have tried so many strategies... it's like the nod ai just has triple the money and units and tech level in half the time. It's odd because medium difficulty is so easy i win no matter what, but hard seems to be literally impossible.

I've tried building up economy first, tried teaching up first, try building defense towers, tried sticking with lower tech levels and spamming units...

Just wondering if this is just me or? am i missing something here? want to keep playing but as is it either too easy or impossible.