Makedonian Schutzstaffel

[seienchin]

To a reasonably large degree nonsense, actually. The SS were above all well-motivated, but not particularly exceptionally trained for the most part; not compared to say the paras or mountain troops...

Hey someone who knows more about the SS than mere fairy tails.
They always had higher casualty rates than other units and didnt fight very clever.
The mythos of the elite fierce german SS elite has 3 roots.
First of all:
Hitler, off course, wanted them to be seen as an elite force, so german media etc. showed it that way and allies copied that believe.
Second:
In the later stages of the war, when the allies finally fought against the germans in europe the SS had nearly all of the modern german panzer equipment making their atacks far more terrifying than the atacks of the Wehrmacht. Nevertheless they failed in the battle of the bulge (II. Ardenne offensive) in any imaginable way.
And last but not least:
Esspecialy in the west the Wehrmacht will to fight any longer was really low in 1945 while the SS continued fighting to the end. Same in the battle of Berlin in the east. Making them a symbol of fierce german defensive in germany.

So in conclusion:
If the 10 makedons were overhyped units with high casualties they were like the SS... But still its a terrible thing to say.

[Macilrille]

I will not repeat myself so...

Look a up a bit for another post by me clarifying things a bit, though this should not actually be a thread on the SS, but on the weirdness of Autoresolve.

In fact, never Autoresolve.

A related problem is the reinforcements that come pouring in with no sense, sacrificing themselves even more idiotically than the AI against you when you manually fight a battle where the reinforcement army has a FM. Even if you click that you do not want the AI to control it. I find that severely frustrating and it sometimes makes me WD from battles. Anyone else tried that?

[Watchman]

Incidentally, didn't campaign difficulty level affect autoresolve...? Not that you should use it anyway, since it's wont to inflict quite a bit of unnecessary casualties on your army.

Anyway, the issue with reinforcements is AFAIK fairly well known. For example, if you've already turned off the AI control of the reinforcement army and then view the enemy army, AI control will be turned back on yet the tick doesn't show. Just to make sure I for one always turning on and off several times before starting the battle to ensure the dumb engine got the message...
Hasn't failed thus far.

[Jebivjetar]

Rome shall burn, my brothers
And the sun will shine like a flower of freedom!

[Jebivjetar]

.....

What is it with these macedonian fanatics???
Why cannot you be quiet about Macedonia??
Quare nequeo graeci consum amicus ut romani?

Rome has Pella, the "great city" of Macedonia, the bithplace of "Megas" Alexandros, and (Rome) is probably gonna push Macedonia into Galatia or into oblivion (prefer the latter). then again, macedonians may keep the romans at bay by blocking them off the peleponnese or halfway down attica

I guess you sir dont want to see a picture of my ongoing Epeirote campaign!

[Macilrille]

And I suggest you read my comment to sata elsewhere. It goes for you as well.

Edited to add the link https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...96#post2284196

[Jebivjetar]

Good job!
One day you can write a book about us

[Cute Wolf]

Jebivatar!!! DONT POST PICS NEEDLESSLY!!!

You ruin my fragile (and low bandwith) connection!!!!

BTW... nice pics

[bovi]

On topic guys.

[Macilrille]

Incidentally, didn't campaign difficulty level affect autoresolve...? Not that you should use it anyway, since it's wont to inflict quite a bit of unnecessary casualties on your army.

Anyway, the issue with reinforcements is AFAIK fairly well known. For example, if you've already turned off the AI control of the reinforcement army and then view the enemy army, AI control will be turned back on yet the tick doesn't show. Just to make sure I for one always turning on and off several times before starting the battle to ensure the dumb engine got the message...
Hasn't failed thus far.

Yes back on topic, it has not? It often does me even if I do not view the enemy

[Macilrille]

Good job!
One day you can write a book about us

I do not think people who spend their time being a nuisance to others are worth my time, nor is writing a book about them- even if it was interesting.

Welcome to the Ignore list, spammer.

[DaciaJC]

Incidentally, didn't campaign difficulty level affect autoresolve...? Not that you should use it anyway, since it's wont to inflict quite a bit of unnecessary casualties on your army.

Anyway, the issue with reinforcements is AFAIK fairly well known. For example, if you've already turned off the AI control of the reinforcement army and then view the enemy army, AI control will be turned back on yet the tick doesn't show. Just to make sure I for one always turning on and off several times before starting the battle to ensure the dumb engine got the message...
Hasn't failed thus far.

To go along with the topic of reinforcements: sometimes the human player will receive the message "Reinforcements delayed", and said reinforcements only come once enough men on the battlefield have been slaughtered. This can be remedied by going to EB/preferences and setting UNLIMITED_MEN_ON_BATTLEFIELD to TRUE.

One more tidbit: apparently one can manipulate the engine to obtain control of two separate armies (field army and the reinforcing army) if each army has a general in command. See here for details.

[Subotan]

Two things I've noticed about Auto-Resolve.
1. ALWAYS Auto Resolve if you are assaulting a city with a large army and there is a very small garrison inside, as the engine does not take towers into account when you assault, which will cause the most damage to your units. I don't consider this an exploit seeing as how could a garrison of six men possibly inflict 40 casualties on an army of over 1,000?
2. Mercenaries generally tend to fare worse in autoresolve than normal troops.

[DaciaJC]

I don't consider this an exploit seeing as how could a garrison of six men possibly inflict 40 casualties on an army of over 1,000?

With numbers like that arrayed against you (taking the position of the six men), you don't really need to aim your bow/sling/javelin (assuming that you're fighting with these missile weapons). Loose those shafts quickty-quick and you're bound to hit people in that teeming mass below you.

[Alexanderofmacedon]

Although I'm not offended, and in many cases agree that some SS units were elite, you have to look at all the facts.

Some of the earlier SS divisions like 1.SS, 2.SS, 3.SS, and 5.SS were among the elite forces WHEN given the fact they had the best equipment of the entire German armed forces.

The other side of the spectrum shows some horrible battle records including at times the 4.SS, 8.SS, 9.SS etc.

True their fanatac nature made them better "warriors", but you have to remember many of the SS were foreign volunteers who just wanted to fight the Communist threat. They were not the type of radical SS material usually seen in Germany because they had no option of the Wehrmacht or SS - it was simply the SS. In this case they excelled too (5.SS, 11.SS), but there were many failing units.

When equipped well (like the Wehrmacht division Grossdeutschland) you will see it had more to do with equippment than anything else. Grossdeutschland had one of the best battle records in the German military.

Sorry, I know that is off topic and not what the thread is about at all...

Good luck on your campaign.

[Mithradates I]

Although I'm not offended, and in many cases agree that some SS units were elite, you have to look at all the facts.

Some of the earlier SS divisions like 1.SS, 2.SS, 3.SS, and 5.SS were among the elite forces WHEN given the fact they had the best equipment of the entire German armed forces.

The other side of the spectrum shows some horrible battle records including at times the 4.SS, 8.SS, 9.SS etc.

True their fanatac nature made them better "warriors", but you have to remember many of the SS were foreign volunteers who just wanted to fight the Communist threat. They were not the type of radical SS material usually seen in Germany because they had no option of the Wehrmacht or SS - it was simply the SS. In this case they excelled too (5.SS, 11.SS), but there were many failing units.

When equipped well (like the Wehrmacht division Grossdeutschland) you will see it had more to do with equippment than anything else. Grossdeutschland had one of the best battle records in the German military.

Sorry, I know that is off topic and not what the thread is about at all...

Good luck on your campaign.

Thanks!

[Jebivjetar]

I do not think people who spend their time being a nuisance to others are worth my time, nor is writing a book about them- even if it was interesting.

Welcome to the Ignore list, spammer.

Oh, thanks. I appreciate the time you've spend just on me

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

I'm just going to close this one.
It is off topic and I cannot see it getting back on topic.