Do you auto-calc any battles?
Those of us with full lives; a career, kids, wife, house, sometimes cannot drag a MTW campaign into 200+ hours.
I admit I use auto-calc in certain situations although ideally I never would if not for the time constraints on my free time.
I do try to follow some self-made guidlelines for it though.
I always autocalc castle assaults. Its usually 5:1 odds or better and playing it out on the tactical map seems to take forever for an outcome that's rather obvious. I played a few out when I first got the game and admit they're fun and different but in the grand scheme of playing out a campaign castle storming seems to add unneeded hours to my campaigns.
I also will auto-calc other no-brainer battles where I have overwhelming odds and an elite army with a high star general attacking a rabble opposing one with a lowlife general. Like my best 2 stacks on a marching mission with 9-star general moving into a rebel held province manned by 6 peasants and 2 archers![]()
I find in the course of a 4 hour session playing MTW I hit auto-resolve about 3-6 times, 90% being castle assaults.
I hate that I am missing out on some of the excitement of the few tactical battles I bypass but it just drags the campaigns out for weeks for me since I have a real life beyond MTW.
Anyone else find themselves doing this?
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