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    Default When Generals lead your army.

    Hello everyone,
    I've recently been playing BI Campagin, and due to lack of time, I seem to let my Generals do my battles, only those with 8 command starts, though! But they suck!!! I'm like a more 'MP' player, who plays all battles, and really, I see no difference between a General with 8 stars or one with 1 star, they both will lose hard battles. What do you think??
    "Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much."

    Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton.

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    Default Re: When Generals lead your army.

    It all depends on the difficulty level setting that you chose for your campaign map. Auto-resolving battles is a thing I always avoid, especially when playing on the harder difficulty settings. The auto-calculation is rediculously bad on VH, and I had to learn that the hard way
    Once I had an army of 10 units of Roman legionaries and a few roman cavalry and archer auxilia units as support. In total, they numbered approximately 1500 men. They were lead by a 2-star general and I decided to attack a nearby Gallic captain who only had a few units (5 to be precise) of normal warband spearmen. I didnt feel like figting such an insignificant battle and so I auto-resolved it..... and I lost! I had a better general, troops of a higher quality AND i outnumbered them by 500 men, but I lost anyway! Approximately half of my army perished while the Gauls only lost a few hundered men

    Beware of the auto-resolve ! It would be masochistic to use it

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    Default Re: When Generals lead your army.

    I always play on VeryHard/VeryHard. And damn this sucks, because I only have 512 RAM it takes some time to load battles, so I must do the auto resolve scenario. The other day, my Hunnic army of 500 men (Normal Scale Unit) lost against a Sassaind army of 13 men, and those 13 men were Cibirani Immortals. Though, even in normal difficulty, does a 5 star general differ than a 1 star general in auto-resolve battles?
    "Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much."

    Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton.

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    The differance is morale your sodiers recive by having the general close. Higher the leval higher the moral

    BTW welcome to the org X daNGEr
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    Default Re: When Generals lead your army.

    So the stars of your general in-no-way affect the result of an auto solved battle??

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    BTW welcome to the org X daNGEr
    Thanks for the warm welcome!
    "Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much."

    Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton.

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    Default Re: When Generals lead your army.

    Yes they do, but the effect isn't big enough to make up for the huge bonuses that the AI recieves when auto-calculating a battle.

    And welcome to the forums!

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