Ive stopped Autoresolving my Battles ETW RULES

[ManKinD]

Just wanted to share some thought with you
I have been a fool who has been auto resolving battles especially in city sieges - from RTW to this series ETW.
Edit - With RTW I did fight city battles but no army could break my Phalanx defences

But I will never do it again - defending and assaulting sieges in ETW are bloody fantastic - I have never had so much fun playing any CA series.

When defending - I mass all my troops in the middle of the city behind trench & stake defenses some units in buildings - no troops on the walls - as they suck and don't seem to stop the enemy- I then have some infantry units in square formation to defend against cavalry and grenadiers lobbying grenades onto oncoming infantry - Not easy at all but this game has best AI I have seen so far in sieges -

Any Thoughts?
When attacking - I used my artillery to destroy the walls - The AI then either waits for me to enter the walls or comes out an attacks me

Im also enjoying land battles -

Naval battles - Im not quite there yet and still auto resolving

Cant wait for the next patch - if the AI is going to be more aggressive then they are know - what a challenge

Any thoughts?

[Von Kickyourass]

Just wanted to share some thought with you
I have been a fool who has been auto resolving battles especially in city sieges - from RTW to this series ETW.
Edit - With RTW I did fight city battles but no army could break my Phalanx defences

But I will never do it again - defending and assaulting sieges in ETW are bloody fantastic - I have never had so much fun playing any CA series.

When defending - I mass all my troops in the middle of the city behind trench & stake defenses some units in buildings - no troops on the walls - as they suck and don't seem to stop the enemy- I then have some infantry units in square formation to defend against cavalry and grenadiers lobbying grenades onto oncoming infantry - Not easy at all but this game has best AI I have seen so far in sieges -

When attacking - I used my artillery to destroy the walls - The AI then either waits for me to enter the walls or comes out an attacks me

Im also enjoying land battles -

Naval battles - Im not quite there yet and still auto resolving

Cant wait for the next patch - if the AI is going to be more aggressive then they are know - what a challenge

i have been waiting for someone to say something like this, to actually support the game! i see a lot of negative comments about how bugs screw up the game and everything but hardly ever comments like this i would rep you but it says i already have, whoops don't remember doing that lol, it says "please spread some reputation before you rep mankind again" or something like that

[ManKinD]

i have been waiting for someone to say something like this, to actually support the game! i see a lot of negative comments about how bugs screw up the game and everything but hardly ever comments like this i would rep you but it says i already have, whoops don't remember doing that lol, it says "please spread some reputation before you rep mankind again" or something like that

I must admit I have complained about slow AI during campaigns with ETW - but I take it all back - as I am really enjoying this game now and those probs are easily fixed with a patch here a modder there- it took me a while to get into it(due to auto resolving I thinks) but am really starting appreciate the strengths of this game, the battle graphics look great

Still a couple of pathfinding issues on walls but as I said I dont use them unless assaulting the walls as an attacker

And I'm still a bit of a novice with naval battles and dont really understand any tactics with more than 3 vessels -

Thanks for the past rep - Come on Aussie

[django333]

Please tell me your joking. Siege battles in this game are horrible because of pathfinding. I avoid sieges like the plague and never build fortifications. Hopefully they will be able to fix it through patches but right now it's the only part of the game that is unplayable IMO.

[JAMiAM]

Pathfinding isn't too bad if you're using large and smaller sized units. One thing you should do is to drag and draw where you want your forces to go instead of trying to move them in formation.

[ManKinD]

Please tell me your joking. Siege battles in this game are horrible because of pathfinding. I avoid sieges like the plague and never build fortifications. Hopefully they will be able to fix it through patches but right now it's the only part of the game that is unplayable IMO.

Originally I did the same - never build the fortifications - but by placing my troops in the center of my city where the flag is and defending to the last man behind trenches and stakes has been great - I haven't done this with forts though, as I find them a bit of a bore - Path finding only effects you if your defending on the walls which I found useless as it didn't really help stop the enemy

[django333]

Originally I did the same - never build the fortifications - but by placing my troops in the center of my city where the flag is and defending to the last man behind trenches and stakes has been great - I haven't done this with forts though, as I find them a bit of a bore - Path finding only effects you if your defending on the walls which I found useless as it didn't really help stop the enemy

Thats the whole problem. The walls are the most imortant part of the fortification. You post units on the walls so the enemy can't get in. But posting units on the walls in ETW is extremely frustrating to say the least.

[Signus]

i have been waiting for someone to say something like this, to actually support the game! i see a lot of negative comments about how bugs screw up the game and everything but hardly ever comments like this i would rep you but it says i already have, whoops don't remember doing that lol, it says "please spread some reputation before you rep mankind again" or something like that

The bugs hardly screw anything up, people just over exagerrate.

[BigB]

I started autoresolving for the first time in Empire. The battles dont feel like they need any strategy. The battles are also kind of boring with two lines of horribly inaccurate infantry standing there shooting and reloading slow enough for me to pay my bills between volleys. First time I ever used autoresolve in a TW game.

[Deathofjams]

I started autoresolving for the first time in Empire. The battles dont feel like they need any strategy. The battles are also kind of boring with two lines of horribly inaccurate infantry standing there shooting and reloading slow enough for me to pay my bills between volleys. First time I ever used autoresolve in a TW game.

Funny that- I stopped auto-resolving for exactly the same reason! I find that in Empire, if I play my cards right and actually use tactics I can win while taking only minor casualties- in Medieval 2, whatever I did, however well I flanked, my prize knights would always end up dying or something like that, and it always dissolved into a big clump-battle in the middle of the map. Empire feels a lot more tactical.

Rome, on the other hand, was just too fast-paced. You'd start the battle and within seconds everything would be going horrible wrong, and unless you had one of the uber-leet units like the Urban Cohort they'd all end up getting run over by chariots.

Empire lacks a little of the epic feel of Medieval (it was always fun totally decimating your enemy with archers in Medieval 2 before they could even reach you, and epic charges were always fun) but I enjoy it more. It feels a lot less random.

[cobalt]

do you work for ca?

[ManKinD]

do you work for ca?

search and read some of my previous post and threads before implying such an insult I would never work for CA - But if there are any CA guys out there reading this - $100 would be fine -

I am serious about what I have written I really appreciate this game the more I play it due to stopping auto resolving battles - that's all - The battle AI is great

Try it: like Arnie would say: C'mon live a little

I was only trying to share some positive thoughts that others might share or would want to discuss further - Stopping Auto resolve has helped increase my enjoyment for this game! There - I said it and stand behind it 100 pusscent.

[Theoo]

laughing out loud.. same here. i alweys did auto resolve in medival 2 total war and in rome total war well i did it alitle in empire total war but not anymore i always fight my battles

do you work for ca?

ya wow you got him.. cA pays him to go on puplic forums and praise their games

[ManKinD]

laughing out loud.. same here. i alweys did auto resolve in medival 2 total war and in Rome total war well i did it a litle in empire total war but not anymore i always fight my battles

Do you auto resolve Naval Battles? Their my biggest hurdle at the moment and not enjoying them when I have 10+ fleet.

[Chesh]

Do you auto resolve Naval Battles? Their my biggest hurdle at the moment and not enjoying them when I have 10+ fleet.

At least I am not the only one to really struggle on Naval Battles. I have even taken now to fighting single battles of 1 vs 1 ship to try and teach myself

[ManKinD]

At least I am not the only one to really struggle on Naval Battles. I have even taken now to fighting single battles of 1 vs 1 ship to try and teach myself

Yeah, I can say that I find it hard to get into naval battles - a bit chaotic and I havent seen one of those famous boardings yet - so I will have to stick to autoresolve until I can get my head around it and play the tutorial a few more times - I find anything over 10 vessels a real cluster -

[Von Kickyourass]

Yeah, I can say that I find it hard to get into naval battles - a bit chaotic and I havent seen one of those famous boardings yet - so I will have to stick to autoresolve until I can get my head around it and play the tutorial a few more times - I find anything over 10 vessels a real cluster -

I lose nearly every naval battle i try! My multiplayer record is also very bad, i've only won about 2 out of 10 naval battles. I'm gonna stick to land.

[Abel12512]

Yeah, I can say that I find it hard to get into naval battles - a bit chaotic and I havent seen one of those famous boardings yet - so I will have to stick to autoresolve until I can get my head around it and play the tutorial a few more times - I find anything over 10 vessels a real cluster -

I love the naval battles (just how it looks) but I have also problems with fleets larger than 7-8 ships. I autoresolve them also (I do play small battles) and practice in custom battles.

[Theoo]

Do you auto resolve Naval Battles? Their my biggest hurdle at the moment and not enjoying them when I have 10+ fleet.

yes i do. laughing outloud.. ive realy tried to get the hang of them but i just auto resolve now

[PGeo36]

The thing about siege battles is people try to use the same tactics that they used in RTW and MTW2 where they stick all their inside the defenses and just defend from in there when in reality you need to use the walls to your advantage in ETW. You need to stick your best troops outside of the walls to prevent the enemy from being able to use their grappling hooks and you put your weaker less experiences troops on the wall to give then an elevated firing platform and the use of the cannons that way you can produce twice the amount of fire on a target than you normally would be able to.



Edit: I feel that I've finally mastered naval battles when I destroyed over half of Venice's fleet (which was about 3/4 of a stack) with my Admirals 5th rate, 4th rate, Brig, and a Sloop.