I'd say time is the huge issue. For those that say they "never" use auto-calc, I'd wonder if they ever finished a full campaign without blitzing.

I play on VH so I can't use it too much anyways, without taking a huge risk. But for non important battles, I consider it a handy tool. Besides, it's far from a cheat when you actually take more losses.

I wish there was a setting for auto-calc difficulty. I wish it was in sink with battle difficulty.


But just the other day, I was feeling lazy and I auto-calc an important battle that I had good odds on. I lost the battle and killed 200, while the AI destroyed 1200. I HAD to reload the game, which I hate doing and only do in extreme cases that are usually no fault of my own.

In the future, since I don't really reload, I just have to be a stickler about ONLY using auto-calc on unimportant battles. Normally I might not have even reloaded, but I felt I was cheated. The AI can have so many stacks while me so few. I couldn't let my only army in that area be destroyed, unless it was destroyed with me in command.