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[artaxerxes]

Ah, of course.

Well I meant without cheating. Just out of curiosity has anyone here managed to get an autoresolve heroic victory without the autowin cheat?

I sometimes use auto_win if it's a battle I know I can win (my computer loads for ages and sometimes crashes when I actually play the battles, so if I don't have hours to waste, auto_win seems more fun) - and that may have been the case in one or two of the instances - even if the Qarthadastim armies were bigger (which your explanations point out that they must have been) I don't feel like I'm cheating when my spies can reveal just how poorly trained the army is. And yeah, sometimes it might be cheating, but the AI cheats too - it CTDs whenever it's going well, so we're equally bad :D
But I'm pretty sure at least one of the battles were autoresolve without auto_win (I often take chances to give the computer a chance - otherwise I could use the 'oh no my computer might crash' and auto_win every battle, and what would be the point?), I don't know. I've read somewhere that elephants and chariots may count for much more in auto_resolve than in real battles. Don't know if it's true. But I had them and the Qarthadastim didn't. And theirs was a completely useless mob and mine a professional army with a general who did have a bloody lot of command stars (he must have some good traits for he got a star for almost anything he did in the beginning of the war)
their FM, btw had no stars at all.

EDIT: as memory becomes a bit clearer, I did fight more battles than I thought at first near Cyrene, auto_resolving some, auto_winning some and even fighting some in person that CTD'ed. I also - obviously - use auto_win to win battles I've already won, but which have CTD'ed. when the dust cleared, there were this bunch of markers. so thinking back, I can't promise they weren't all auto_win. I can just sort-of promise that to my knowledge, it wasn't completely unfair use of the auto_win :D