Weird / unpredictable battle results?

[el_dext0r]

Lately I have been experiencing strangely unpredictable battle results, not using the automatically resolve thing, as you might think, but when i fight the battles myself

This has been happening for roughly the last 4 campaigns I have started (VH/M) and am finding myself being whooped repeatedly (or at least suffering heavy losses when I least expect it) on battles that I would expect to be a walkover.

For example, assaulting Corinth, my crack legions of Principes were absolutely slaughtered by the experience 1 mercenary peltasts on the walls, when usually I would expect to rout them with relatively few losses.

Similiarly, early on in my most recent Julii game, attacking Patavatium (or whatever the hell it is called) I had the enemy trapped on the square, comprised of about 500 light infantry and mebbe 50 light cavalry, i sent my triarii to sort the horsemen out whilst 2 groups of hastati attacked the infanty, and to finish them off my 100 strong generals bodyguard attacked them all from behind, i sustained nearly 50% casualties!

Does anyone else experience weird battles throughout certain campaigns while others seem to be total walkover or is it just me?

[caravel]

Did you up the difficulty?

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Did you up the difficulty?

Or did someone else do so as a joke on you?

Caravel has a point, those sound like results from a VH/VH setting.

[el_dext0r]

lol yeah, that was my first thought, but i always play medium difficulty on battle maps because of the insane results you get if you increase it, and my rtw is totally unmodified so i'm a bit stumped tbh :p

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Well, any randomized algorithm can produce odd results from time to time -- every once in a blue moon King Alfred does beat the odds etc. -- but to have so many in a row seems to defy probability a mite.

[Shieldmaiden]

Well, any randomized algorithm can produce odd results from time to time -- every once in a blue moon King Alfred does beat the odds etc. -- but to have so many in a row seems to defy probability a mite.

Actually, it would be defying probability if it didn't happen occasionally

On a more serious note, is there a way to check Difficulty in a Savegame, in case its glitched and changed? (Assuming thats possible, I swear I've seen a thread mention it before).