Auto Calc

[Polemists]

So now it's a few days till i'm getting game (Sounds familiar ) and thought i'd fire off some questions to those who have played/own the game.


I know lots of people are ooing and ahhing over the graphics, and that's cool. Probably means alot of hands on battles.

That said, has anyone tried the auto calc feature much? I like the battles and all, but usually after a month or two I start using auto calc more and more.

So does it work this time? Or is this back to killing your gothic knights rather then peasants in a 5:2 advantage?

[Alsn]

Everything dies pretty much equally. If you take 200 losses during an autocalc battle and you have 1000 total units all your units will lose roughly 20% of their manpower.

Interesting to point out though is that in battles where you have a really huge advantage you usually suffer no losses whatsoever or at least extremely miniscule losses(like 5 men out of a 1500 strong army).

[Polemists]

Interesting to point out though is that in battles where you have a really huge advantage you usually suffer no losses whatsoever or at least extremely miniscule losses(like 5 men out of a 1500 strong army).

Almost reminds me of the castle seiges in MTW2 where somehow the AI could take the castle and only lose 1 or 2 guys.

[RZST]

uhm, auto calc sieges are still working....working damn well infact.

[hoom]

Damn well as in 'as a cheat to take forts easily'
Or as in 'giving the defenders a decent defensive advantage'

[thurjack_mahr]

I'm finding that I don't use auto-calc at all. I used to in the previous titles and I don't know if I stopped because the battles just got "more fun" or what.