MP Battles

[Lord_Calidor]

How you hotseated guys play the battles? I've seen mostly rules with autoresolve off... :hmmm:
Hope you dont play clickfest, in real time against each other.

[Echad]

Well, battles should be played separately from the campaign - hopefully CA will merge them in Empire... To date I have had no online real-time battles, but would be probably willing to have some after 6.0 will be released.

[hellfire15]

yep that would be pretty cool,

[Lord_Calidor]

Thnx for your thoughts guys, but that still doesn't answer the q: how u play battles in hotseat?
Sry for being so thick, but I've never even tried it in TW game...

[King Yngvar]

The attacker play it out against the other player's AI. I know, that is bad, but CA decided that was wise for some reason I don't know.

[Echad]

Well, I explained it somewhere - you CAN actually make the defensive battles playable, but this will lead to chaos in turn order.

[King Yngvar]

Explain your theory on it... I have thought of it myself, but that involves hosting a custom battle online. Only problems are:

1: General's stats are taken out of the context.

2: If the general die in custom battle, he will still be alive -> you cannot disband the general as you can disband units.

3: While disbanding units you can only disband whole units, meaning that you can't take every number into consideration.

[Echad]

No, not players vs player, but just defensive battles vs the AI - appropriate on same PC, but not online... And custom battling the campaign battle clone is just too cumbersome to perform, especially taking in mind your cons.