Does this patch tweak the enemy wizards' disposition towards the player?

I ask because I have been trying to get back into MoM after beating it oh many, many years ago and now I can't seem to do anything. I meet a Wizard and literally the next turn he's telling me that he's going to hunt me down to the ends of the Earth even though I haven't touched a single city or unit of his. Then I get the fun of having to fend off the enemy units he or she keeps lobbing at me. This, in turn, prevents me from expanding which means I can't raise up the mana needed to summon magic units and so on.