Autobattles

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Maybe so but I play TW games in order to fight those battles, which sometimes can be difficult. My most memorable battle playing Germania came when I got ambushed by two Brittania armies, one directly in front, one directly on my rear. I got stuck in a deep valley between the two so the outlook wasn't good. I decided to take the hill in front by direct assault, double time, with all troops (love those Chosen Archers in melee!), and regroup before the second army could engage my rear. By the time they reached me, I was well entrenched on the hill, leaving them no choice but to climb. Heroic Victory for my general

I once won a battle as Pontus (with a dozen or so vanilla archer units) against the Greek Cities (about 6 or 7 Armored Hoplites). Another Heroic Victory Had a few of those HV's in Macedonian campaigns against the Romans. Won't bore you with anymore details, but years later I still remember them. Can't recall any epic auto-resolve battles.... (just having a little good-natured fun here).

Very unfotunately that difficult battles are very rare. May be that's why I like historical battles.
And I also still can remember some of my campaing (which I played a lot since saved time using autobattles %) ).
For exmaple, playing with Gauls I fought on three fronts from the beginning (with their weak economy and undeveloped temples) and eventually won in time. I just sacrifice everything to capture Rome as 15 province...And also was able to recover later.

Not sure one can actually ruin a Roman economy I've had campaigns where I've blockaded every single Roman port, taken most of their major cities, and yet they continue to send endless stacks against me even though their army upkeep couldn't possibly be sustained by the income they were getting. I've always believed there are built-in monetary perks for Romans, though I can't prove it

Well...may be the reason why they didn't send their stacks because I fight their stacks quite rare. Hence, I capture their cities, but they have to maintain their army. So, instead of beating their stack and then beating a fresh one I try to exhaust their economy first (I mean not ports but I try to campture eeach city which is not defended enough).

Looking at my previous post...I forgot some nice reccomendation. :)

-Naval is power. Thus, Parthia here is very powerful. Big navy allows to make sneaky attacks to the port cities. Also when you sink Roman ships..by some reason they try to build new ones (thus they doesn't build land forces).

-Mercenaries. Try to hire most of them. This will give some army and will deny AIs from getting more troops. Especially this is good in Minor Asia (e.g. for Parthia and Pontus). Also when you loot cities you got a lot of money, mercenaries is a qiute good way to spend it (especially for factions with weak infanrty).

-Experience shrines are kind of overpowered...Well, Parthia doesn't have them. But if we play fast enough then some cities usual have exp. temples (hello Sparta or Campus Scythe) or +1 to weapon temples. So, it really helps to factions like Parthia.

-In the beginning (playing with Pathia) it is important to build a couple of farms and srhines. It will give you some income and reduce a corruption (so long distances...).

-Blacksmith is a very nice thing. And may be very improtant. Even those single brozne sword makes Easern infantry better (may be even much better).

Yep. Pretty amazing. Again, it's too bad the old link to that campaign doesn't work anymore. He had lots of screen-shots to document the progress....


Actually, he outdid himself:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...ties-Speed-Run

And then someone outdid him:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...ht=Greeks+Rule

Thanks a lot for the links! I will check it. :)