Autoresolve tip

[imdWALRU5]

One thing I strongly suggest is that you dont do auto-resolve on the harder difficulty modes.
IT IS HORRIBLE!!!
you can loose many more men than you need to and it usualy never kills the enemy army on the campaign map, they just retreat after the battle.

Also, you dont gain that many retineus and attributes when you auto-resolve.
For example: I auto resolved a battle with a young family member tho had either none or few command stars and i won a close victory. I loaded my game a gain not satisfied with the results and manually fought the battle, I crush the enemy and gained 3 command stars from the victory!

Now I always manually play all my battles.

[Fisherking]

Never, never use it with horse archers or if you are strong in cavalry, archers or Onagers. You know you can cream the enemy if you fight the battle but if you have a force with little infantry you will loose big-time!

[Craterus]

Oh, thanks for the tip, I'll keep that in mind for my cavalry-based armies...