How often do you guys use cheats?

[Julianus]

I use auto_win in navy battles when my fleet is not significantly weaker than the enemy, the logic is I would never lose such a battle if only given a chance to command it.

[Cute Wolf]

I use auto_win in navy battles when my fleet is not significantly weaker than the enemy, the logic is I would never lose such a battle if only given a chance to command it.

well, you could doing a naval battle in RTW derived engine.... some guys in this submod are doing this....
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=1469

and you could must assume someone also try hard to dig out their secret....

[Randal]

I use the auto_win cheat if there is a crash to the disk after I win a tactical battle. I don't want to play it all over again, so I'll use the cheat as I won it already anyway.

I occasionally toggle the FoW to see how the factions are doing.

[sherman0815]

I never cheat, for it only shows you your own incompetence. ;)

[Madoushi]

I use the auto_win cheat if there is a crash to the disk after I win a tactical battle. I don't want to play it all over again, so I'll use the cheat as I won it already anyway.

I occasionally toggle the FoW to see how the factions are doing.

I had a game in my Roman Campaign where the Carthagininians has three FMs in a stack on Sardinia, and every time I would defeat it, my game would crash no matter how long I waited after the battle results. Not only that, but it would also corrupt my most recent save so it would crash on loading. Maybe I should try doing that.

IRT Topic: I abuse the hell out of the pause feature in combat, I use toggle_fow once I've scouted the whole map, just to save myself the hassle of having to move dozens of agents every turn to have up-to-date map info, and when I ply as any of the Steppe factions, I use the add_money cheat if I've gone too deep in debt to defend my empire once I've finally started to get positive cashflow.

As the Sauros I positively have to add-money if the Sakas or Hai start attacking me, otherwise they just destroy me and there's nothing I can do about it. :(

[rotten]

Sack cities. Maybe you can nail Ekbatana (sp?) with a Forager if you're lucky, that's about 27k mnai without destroying the wonder (44 if you do). But you need foot archers for that, so you'll take that much longer to cross through Armenia.

[SaigonSaddler]

I have now started cheating using the auto_win cheat.

[Julianus]

I use auto_win in navy battles when my fleet is not significantly weaker than the enemy, the logic is I would never lose such a battle if only given a chance to command it.

Well, after another thought, I find that from a RP point ot view I should not be able to command every battle anyway, as king, if I'm not present on the battle field myself, especially navy battles.
So has anyone tried this RP approach: only mannually command battles when the king himself is in the army and auto_resove all the others?
I mean, even if you're a tactical genius, you cannot determine the outcome of a battle if you're not there. I remember even Alexander had one of his lesser army destroyed by the nomads when he sent them to reinforce a besieged settlement.
This must be quite interesting.

[stratigos vasilios]

Sometimes I'll process_cq an AI factions city to give them a boost. Just to see how interesting it can become.

[vartan]

Once every blue moon.

[Olaf The Great]

Oh, and I use force diplomacy, but Diplomacy sucks in rome total war so I can't be blamed for it

[DaciaJC]

I use add_money sometimes to give other factions money.

If I win a crushing victory against an enemy (wiping them out while suffering few losses), and I thereafter CTD ... I will use show_cursorstat and move_character to move the offending enemy army into some obscure territory, move one of my lowly units into the same province, use auto_win attacker to eliminate them, and then disband my unit.

And, of course, I use toggle_fow, but only once I have conquered a certain number of territories.