MonkeySausage

So I do like to play the odd skirmish game to kill time but playing it with the Enemy set to hard and brutal enabled the AI has a full base setup in seconds and is throwing unit at me before I've even build a war factory. The game generally ends within a minute. It's no fun if the enemy soviet team is through Kirovs at you before you even have a tank. Surely this can be right, is it set so the enemy AI starts with a full base and a load of units? I could well have a setting wrong.