campaign or battles?

[Sethik]

I was wondering which people prefered, the campaign and empire building, or doing the battles. I bought the game mainly for the battles, but i now find myself auto fighting the battles, except at the beginning when i'm fighting with relatively small armies.

I tend to actually skip battles later on in the game when you have thousands of units on each side and a battle might last over an hour. It is also annoying that after I break the enemy, I have to wait for the reinforements to show up for a few seconds before they get routed too. After a while these battles turn into a babysitting fest with me waiting for their 2nd or 3rd teir units to get onto the field and then route a little after that.

So, yeah, it's mostly campagin for me. Though sometimes nothing is more satisfying then watching a carefully planned flank pay off...

[KillerKadugen]

I really enjoy smaller battles, but after armies get to several stacks of units, I tend to autobattle, because the battle gets old, and it takes waaaayyy too much time. Especially if you are heavily outnumbered and are defending. The enemy never seems to stop coming (See Golden Horde). Once I conquer about 40%, I tend to either drive out the enemy without a battle, or autoresolve to speed things up. If only there were a way to keep the game interesting after that point...

[Sethik]

I think that's why CA made the Senate turn on you once you hit a certain mark of power in R:TW. A good move, although I wonder how the player will react when his carefully laid empire is suddenly torn in two.

[ShellShock]

I usually auto calc the following battles:

a) Sieges. I 'm a total wuss at sieges; the computer does a much better job than me.

b) Any battle with reinforcements. I don't like the reinforcement system ni MTW. You have the main battle, and then when things have seemed to reach a conclusion, lo and behold some reinforcements appear on the horizon, and then takes ages to get to where the action is. This turns what might be a conclusive victory (or defeat) into a long drawn out affair.

[hotingzilla]

I enjoy both custom battles and campaign battles.

During campaign, I actually pick big and interesting fights to play, I usually auto calc the smaller ones or sieges.

The reinforcement system in MTW is poor, sometimes when you corner an enemy, their reinforcement appears behind you, which can get pretty annoying.

[Sun Tzui]

I enjoy them both, but tend to play as some of you already stated...meaning I prefer the campaign, and play battles mainly at the beggining, or when when army sizes arent too large to my taste.

The average army size for manual battle in my case is some 2000/3000 men for each side.

I do enjoy assaulting/defending castles and fortresses, and do those manually all the time!

[fester]

They are both as important as each other to me . Yes I love battles but a battle is meaningless if it did not achieve some thing on the campaign map.At the begining of a battle your thinking "cant loose here Flanders is my richest province", or if ," I win here theres a gold mine".