autocalc results a bit...weird

[sapi]

Autocalc sucks in sallys - full stop.

[Accounting Troll]

Playing on hard, I prefer to fight every single battle because my casualties are so severe when I autocalc.

In one battle on hard difficulty level I was attacked by a Roman army that I outnumbered 3 to 1, I was defending a mountain top in a blizzard and I had a far better general. I did an autocalc that gave me a crushing defeat, so I reloaded and fought the battle manually, effortlessly winning a heroic victory.

[motorhead]

not sure of the total effects with changing campaign difficulty, but on the RTW disc it has a note about it in the release notes:

Auto Resolve Battle Difficulty
When choosing difficulty settings at the start of a campaign, changing the difficulty setting for the campaign will affect the way the game auto resolves battles. The difficulty of the auto resolve inherently affects the difficulty of the campaign game, and so determines the level of challenge on the campaign map. The battle difficulty is solely used to determine the level of difficulty when the player is playing on the 3d battle map.

- so campaign difficulty is the culprit

[Prodigal]

I really can't follow the game setting logic, unless it means that on Medium, say, your AI is dumbed down in some way. Just getting the feel for RTW & have been playing on Medium, but unless I have overwhelming odds in my favour the calc almost always shows I'm about to be handed my head. Its not a big deal as actually playing the battles out results in a win, but what concerns me is that surely the sea battles use the same calc logic.

[discovery1]

I'm pretty sure they don't. I've had victories when I'm outnumbered more than 2:1 while at sea.