Yes, the AI cheats.

Today i was playing a match against moderate AI and made everything i could to gather resources quickly, advance to castle age the fast that was possible and create military (mostly i play defensively). Everything was going well until it started, the AI (Chinese) sent a massive army of knights, pikemen and rams to my town (i had built 3 castles to that point and the many military my resources could afford, mostly pikemen and skirmishers, because i had already seen some knights on their village and because they were the Chinese, its normal to expect some archers and chu ko nus) and they simply anihillated me, even with my defenses ready, they just harassed everything. When i saw, i hadn't any resources left nor troops and their army kept big and strong. Well after that i hadn't hope to win anymore and i used the cheat polo to see what was going on in their village, and, their town was pretty average in everything, they hadn't none castles and were only training regular troops (by the way, their barracks and siege workshops were training troops like crazy and sending everything directly to my town, so you already got it, i lost miserably). But the reason that i said the AI cheats came after i get to the aftermatch, their stats was very very weird, they had the same amount of villagers than me, but the triple in resources. While i was having a bad time to at least train a few trash units to defend my town, they already had enough resources to create an massive army of knights and rams. Look at this history and tell me, how the AI would do this without cheating??? (Ps: Sorry for anything that i wrote wrong, english is not my language)