Greatly Needed Feature?

[a tw player]

Hey all,

Coming on here a "little" frustrated after committing one of my Takeda stacks to fight a delaying action along a river to aid my Imagawa vassals, fighting about 45 minutes on the battle perhaps, deciding to tactically withdraw my units before their reinforcing stacks could ruin me, and with approximately 20 secs left before I could score an invaluable tactical victory, the battle crashed.

Some screens I decided to take just to show the scale and how many dead bodies there were by the end of the main egagement:

http://steamcommunity.com/id/a_tw_pl...217381756254/?
http://steamcommunity.com/id/a_tw_pl...217381766790/?
http://steamcommunity.com/id/a_tw_pl...217381760001/?

Such long slogging matches that achieve results which would not be able to be achieved in require lots of effort to perform, and it simply is not fun to then have to re-load your campaign and auto-resolve the same battle scoring much larger losses than you would have done before a crash kills the battle.

Crashes are a sad, albeit expected, part of computer gaming and are inevitable once in a while (I would hope the frequency of crashes may be reduced after a few large patches but we'll see - might just be because I'm stressing my crappy rig before I get my new one )...

In any case, is there not a method of damage limitation that can be done so that the fun and sheer effort put into certain battles are not lost? I propose that (probably for the next game) an autosave/save function is put into the battle mode so that if you crash, you can pick up at the last save and all is not lost. Would this be possible, and would players appreciate such a feature?

Cheers,
ATWP

[SnowRaven]

nice screens and great suggestion maybe a quick save every 15-30 minutes?

[a tw player]

nice screens and great suggestion maybe a quick save every 15-30 minutes?

Thanks

And yes, although I think maybe every 5-10 minutes (or even a preset amount by the player) could be more appropriate if you think about the length of battles on the whole, and how much work/effort is involved in 5-10 minutes of manoeuvring on the battlefield.