Auto-Resolve Battles: Changed, still the same?

[TevashSzat]

I believe midnight is right, i always autocalc with sieges since you always get suspusiously low casualties through auto calc compared to fighting it yourself

[JCoyote]

@ Carl: I really don't think it simulates them battling it out, I think it's more a tabletop or RPG sort of rough math. Because, when you look at the casualties afterward, there isn't rhyme or reason to them. Afterward it almost looks like someone rolled a dice about which units took casualties. They usually are almost evenly distributed across units. Artillery is notorious for taking small numbers of casualties. Why is that? When battles are fought out, artillery surviving is usually almost an all or nothing thing... not a quarter or half the unit. The way artillery takes losses has always made me think its a rough math on the stats that's used.

[General Zhukov]

I believe midnight is right, i always autocalc with sieges since you always get suspusiously low casualties through auto calc compared to fighting it yourself

I knew something odd was going on with those. Gonna fight 'em out and suck up the losses from now on.

[Jonathan_Thompson]

Auto battle is kind but its unpredictable and loves to throw curveballs like this

H/H campaign as venice. Sieging Florence, Milan's already attacked it and reduced garrison. I know its going to be a pain to hold so I send a large army.

845 men vs 89 men

15:1 odds

I lose 845 men and he loses 6

Sometimes I wonder

[Skott]

My experiences is that you are more likely to win using the Auto Calculator than doing the fight yourself. Its basically the total opposite of RTW. This is in the vanilla game. Not sure if this changes using the various mods availble.