Auto Calc

[Sir Beane]

Yes somehow autocalc seems to get your men to the castle walls without losing a single unit before the battle even begins.


They ignore the whole towers, walls, arrows of fire aspect.

Maybe this will hold for star fort autocalc.

I really hope it doesn't. Star forts are meant to be untakable by direct attack (I think this one is one of the earlier previews) and the only way to win against one is through a drawn out seige. Which isn't innacurate given the unbelievable level of defenses they had.

If we can take one in Auto Cal with minimum losses it will just be silly.

[Polemists]

I don't know, I did see a preview that had a start forts, and the only word mentioned about it was "Formidable" which was before it, in the words

"you can build formidable star forts"

Though seige would make sense I assume they are just going to work like the forts in kingdoms.

[Sheogorath]

My MAIN issue with the auto calc is that it takes casualties from apparently random units.

My elite archers, whom I would never allow into a melee, lose half their number, but the unit of raw peasants (who would almost certainly be used as an arrow magnet) is almost totally untouched?

Duabayew tee eff, mate.

And, as mentioned, and as I have said before, the seemingly random chance of "LOL DEVASTATING DEFEAT" under strange circumstances is not a risk I'm willing to take with a large stack.

It's fine with bandit/rebel/rouge AI stack hunters, since I rarely put more than a couple cheap units in there and can easily rebuild them. But for my two stack army, six provinces from a place capable of sending reinforcements, I avoid autocalc whenever possible.

[Thermal]

I've never noticed auto calc to lose me battles i irrefutably would have won, but i do find that they take heaps of my men down even though i may win, which is almost as bad.