Hope(s) for the SP Patch

[GFX707]

9. why take out the save battle button at the start of the battle screen. The Missus hates it when my 2 hour battle must be played out when she thinks it's bed time. Or when the boss wants me to do something and i am playing in my lunch hour .......1/2 hour. ok 10 mins

Press Ctrl-S at the battle screen (or at any time on the campaign map) and it will quicksave.

[Lord Ovaat]

Press Ctrl-S at the battle screen (or at any time on the campaign map) and it will quicksave.

Ooops. I thought everyone knew that, but obviously not. I used to auto-calc a lot in MTW if I had good gens, just to eliaviate some of the tedium of the little or huge battles. I've found with RTW that I CAN NOT AFFORD to auto-calc anything! It's horrendous. Auto-calc seemed so bad, that I performed some experiments by saving at the initial battle screen, auto-calculating, reloading, then fighting the battle. Lordy! Now, I can't possibly be the world's best tactician, but there is no comparison. An honest average for me with auto-calc, even with good gens, leaves me heavily damaged, sometimes losing, sometimes drawing. By fighting them out, I've only lost one major battle in my first four campaigns, even when outnumbered 2-3 to 1. I guess I wouldn't mind fighting them all so much, but it seems you must also fight two or three rebel groups in each turn. Bull! They couldn't breed that fast, nor get recruits of bad guys. I have found that if I can destroy the rebels to the last man, they usually don't come back for a while, but if you leave even ONE, he's immediately out hustling up more thieves.