May be a total coincidence, but I haven't lost in a long time on a small map against Hard enemy AI.

This time, it Pwned me...

It almost seemed to be cheating with the amount of ships that showed up so quickly.  Enemy and me were both TEC.

He pumped out a Akkon and Dunov darn quick.  I pumped out the Akkon for capping (in hindsight on such a small map I should have went Kol, with a colony ship)

He teched to Hoshinkos fast.  I don't no if they've been enhanced but I couldn't take down squat while he was aggressively pounding me on my own planet with 3 repair bays teched up going...

No way I could have gotten hoshinko as metal resources were incredibly scarce.

It was eventually going totally down hill, even after a few restores so I surrendered.

Either the AI is now awesome, I was having a bad day, or the computer is getting some type of resources unfairly.  It definitely was on hard, not Unfari.