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    sometimes when I've fought a battle, a little marker with crossed swords turns up on the campaign map to commemorate the occasion. But I just can't find out why. I fought the Ptolemies (as AS) for nearly 100 years in the region around Hierosolyma, and never got a single one of them. Then I fight the Qarthadastim for 2 years around Kyrene, autoresolve all my battles, and get three of these markers
    so when do they turn up?
    Moreover, I advise that Syracusans must be added to EB (insp. by Cato the Elder )

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    Quote Originally Posted by artaxerxes View Post
    sometimes when I've fought a battle, a little marker with crossed swords turns up on the campaign map to commemorate the occasion. But I just can't find out why. I fought the Ptolemies (as AS) for nearly 100 years in the region around Hierosolyma, and never got a single one of them. Then I fight the Qarthadastim for 2 years around Kyrene, autoresolve all my battles, and get three of these markers
    so when do they turn up?
    The marker only comes up for Heroic Victories.
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    Quote Originally Posted by vartan View Post
    The marker only comes up for Heroic Victories.
    yes, but not always
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    Quote Originally Posted by anubis88 View Post
    yes, but not always
    Yep, the victory has to include large number of soldiers clashing, which excludes the hundreds of Heroic Victory battles I win with only my general's bodyguard. Something like a thousand troops or more on Large unit scale.

    I do that on purpose - whenever I see a quarter of a stack, usually the rebels, I attack it with just a single general. Sometimes I bring along the cheapest levy unit I can find. This makes sure the odds are exceedingly against me. This way the generals gain a load of good traits.


    EDIT: Oh, and if this was not bad enough, the markers vanish after a set number of years, which depends on just how crushing the victory was (mostly determined by the total amount of troops from both sides which engaged in the battle).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Aemilius Paulus View Post
    EDIT: Oh, and if this was not bad enough, the markers vanish after a set number of years, which depends on just how crushing the victory was (mostly determined by the total amount of troops from both sides which engaged in the battle).
    Lol. In my Pahlava campaing i had when i stopped in 70 BC still a battle marker near Hecatompylos with the year around 220 BC :D... Now that must've been hell of a victory if the marker dissaperence depends on what you said :)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Aemilius Paulus View Post
    Yep, the victory has to include large number of soldiers clashing, which excludes the hundreds of Heroic Victory battles I win with only my general's bodyguard. Something like a thousand troops or more on Large unit scale.

    I do that on purpose - whenever I see a quarter of a stack, usually the rebels, I attack it with just a single general. Sometimes I bring along the cheapest levy unit I can find. This makes sure the odds are exceedingly against me. This way the generals gain a load of good traits.


    EDIT: Oh, and if this was not bad enough, the markers vanish after a set number of years, which depends on just how crushing the victory was (mostly determined by the total amount of troops from both sides which engaged in the battle).
    I had a marker for defeating 5 units of brigands outside the town with a general and the 2 garrisson troops. Size does not matter.

    You only get them at the Heroic of the Heroic victories, if I have the feeling after a battle that it was a REAL difficult one, then usually I get a marker. Although sometimes you get them at undeserved moments.

    They also disappear after a period of time, depending on how important and heroic it really was.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fluvius Camillus View Post
    They also disappear after a period of time, depending on how important and heroic it really was.
    Are you sure that the reason why they disappear is the "importance" factor? I have read somewhere on these forums that they start disappearing once there is 50 markers on the map. So the 51st heroic marker dletes the 1st one and so on. If that's true it's possible to see markers disappearing often (a lot of Heroic battles fought) or stay there for the whole of campaign (quite small number of Heroic battles).

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    Quote Originally Posted by artaxerxes View Post
    Then I fight the Qarthadastim for 2 years around Kyrene, autoresolve all my battles, and get three of these markers
    Wait, you got 3 heroic victories with autoresolve?

    I guess I wouldn't know, because I never autoresolve battles unless the odds are absurdly in my favor, but I though that it was pretty much impossible to get a victory when you autoresolve with the odds against you (and the odds have to be against you for it to be a heroic victory).
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    Quote Originally Posted by WinsingtonIII View Post
    Wait, you got 3 heroic victories with autoresolve?

    I guess I wouldn't know, because I never autoresolve battles unless the odds are absurdly in my favor, but I though that it was pretty much impossible to get a victory when you autoresolve with the odds against you (and the odds have to be against you for it to be a heroic victory).
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    Quote Originally Posted by vartan View Post
    auto_win attacker/defender
    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?
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    Nope, except only in Naval battles.


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    Quote Originally Posted by WinsingtonIII View Post
    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?
    That's not cheating when odds are 20:1.
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    Just out of curiosity has anyone here managed to get an autoresolve heroic victory without the autowin cheat?
    Yeah, but your general needs to have lots of stars in order to do it though. Often times a ten star general will be able to win heroic victories in autoresolve that even I'm not sure I would be able to do.
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    Quote Originally Posted by vartan View Post
    That's not cheating when odds are 20:1.
    But you can't get a heroic victory unless the odds are against you.... (right?) so my question still stands.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WinsingtonIII View Post
    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
    Last edited by artaxerxes; 02-28-2010 at 11:37.
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    @artaxerxes

    Don't worry, I wasn't saying that it wasn't justified cheating, I think everyone has used auto_win to fight battles they know that they can win. So don't worry, I'm not trying to call you out or anything. In fact, I don't really see any point in caring how other people play their games as long as it's fun for them.

    The reason why I made the distinction is simply because I was wondering if anyone had every won an autoresolve battle with the odds against them when they weren't using the autowin cheat, as in, is it possible in the first place?
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