When Generals lead your army.

[x-dANGEr]

Hello everyone,
I've recently been playing BI Campagin, and due to lack of time, I seem to let my Generals do my battles, only those with 8 command starts, though! But they suck!!! I'm like a more 'MP' player, who plays all battles, and really, I see no difference between a General with 8 stars or one with 1 star, they both will lose hard battles. What do you think??

[Bohdan, Lord of Courland]

It all depends on the difficulty level setting that you chose for your campaign map. Auto-resolving battles is a thing I always avoid, especially when playing on the harder difficulty settings. The auto-calculation is rediculously bad on VH, and I had to learn that the hard way :san_sad:
Once I had an army of 10 units of Roman legionaries and a few roman cavalry and archer auxilia units as support. In total, they numbered approximately 1500 men. They were lead by a 2-star general and I decided to attack a nearby Gallic captain who only had a few units (5 to be precise) of normal warband spearmen. I didnt feel like figting such an insignificant battle and so I auto-resolved it..... and I lost! I had a better general, troops of a higher quality AND i outnumbered them by 500 men, but I lost anyway! Approximately half of my army perished while the Gauls only lost a few hundered men :san_huh:

Beware of the auto-resolve ! It would be masochistic to use it :san_tongue:

[x-dANGEr]

I always play on VeryHard/VeryHard. And damn this sucks, because I only have 512 RAM it takes some time to load battles, so I must do the auto resolve scenario. The other day, my Hunnic army of 500 men (Normal Scale Unit) lost against a Sassaind army of 13 men, and those 13 men were Cibirani Immortals. Though, even in normal difficulty, does a 5 star general differ than a 1 star general in auto-resolve battles?

[Lord Winter]

The differance is morale your sodiers recive by having the general close. Higher the leval higher the moral

BTW welcome to the org X daNGEr

[x-dANGEr]

So the stars of your general in-no-way affect the result of an auto solved battle??


BTW welcome to the org X daNGEr
Thanks for the warm welcome!

[Bohdan, Lord of Courland]

Yes they do, but the effect isn't big enough to make up for the huge bonuses that the AI recieves when auto-calculating a battle.

And welcome to the forums! ~:grouphug:

[x-dANGEr]

Aha! So I need to do all the killing with my hand and the mouse :P

Thank you all for your help concerning this matter.

Though, in M: TW, was that the same??

[Ludens]

Aha! So I need to do all the killing with my hand and the mouse :P

Thank you all for your help concerning this matter.

Though, in M: TW, was that the same??
Actually, the stars of a general do matter a lot. Have a look at this thread (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=37001): one of the developers answers your question there. It is just that at VH strategic difficulty the A.I. gets a big bonus in auto-calc while at VH battle difficulty the A.I. gets something like +8 attack and +4 defence.

In M:TW it worked pretty much the same: generals gave a morale bonus to nearby units depending on their command ability. Also, they gave +1 attack for every odd command star and +1 defence for every even one (roughly: +1 valour/experience for every two stars, but without the morale bonus). The difference was that M:TW only had one difficulty parameter, and the A.I. recieved only minor stat boosts (+10% attack defence at hard; +15% attack/defence, +5 morale at expert, IIRC). Increasing difficulty level also made the M:TW A.I. smarter. I am afraid the same cannot be said of the R:TW A.I.

[Lord Winter]

Thanks for the warm welcome!
No problem, i have always found it nice when some one welcomes me when i am new to a fourm

[x-dANGEr]

Well, that makes sense. Thanks for the explanation!

But ain't +8 attack +4 defence a little too much? It's still easy to beat, though it doesn't seem to be the same for my generals.

[x-dANGEr]

It seems I can't edit my post. But I think that with my armies having +1 attack point with every command star and also some morale bonus, it becomes fair. As the A.I. generals don't seem to get many stars anyway. So I answer my question after some thinking :P

Sorry for double posting.

[Ludens]

Well, that makes sense. Thanks for the explanation!

But ain't +8 attack +4 defence a little too much? It's still easy to beat, though it doesn't seem to be the same for my generals.
+8A/+4D is indeed much, but it is fortunatly independent of command. The command bonus for the computer is also +1A times the number of stars.

[x-dANGEr]

So if I want to test a 1 on 1 with 2 units (for MP play), should I do that on easy/medium?

[Ludens]

So if I want to test a 1 on 1 with 2 units (for MP play), should I do that on easy/medium?
Medium. I think that on easy the player's army gets a bonus.