Auto resolve

First of all, still, great mod (actually makes the game playable, compared to vanilla).

But permanentently this is just sad, especially knowing, the russians are more known for "many-man" tactics than for "special-forces".

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The more realistic result (executed far way from too well):

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Automatic Resolve, what are you doing? Auto Resolve, Stahp!

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It is just that i wonder what is simulated what my toops are doing in this fight.

I have to agree, the autobalance of 2.6 seems a bit...off. I am now forced to fight every battle manually, even if I have superior numbers. It's tedious, to say the least.

Agreed, also. Great mod, but with this big flaw!

Uninstalled because my campaigns were tedious with this auto resolve. The ONLY reason. small, yet destroys my immersion.

Dont auto resolve, he made OP on purpose, just fight the battles the way the game intended

Originally Posted by airborne guy

Dont auto resolve, he made OP on purpose, just fight the battles the way the game intended

If true, this is truly a horrible gameplay decision. I don't have the time or desire to fight every single battle. Could you maybe point out where Darth has stated this intention?

Here's the thing none of you seem to understand. The battles of the time period were such that the attacking army would need to either vastly outnumber the defenders or so far outskill them that they would suffer few losses. Your screen shots of battles you "expect" to win of 10,000 versus 7,000 for instance would of been battles any respectable general during the era would of thought very tough to win. Frequently, armies of 50,000 strong were repelled by those of 20,000 which were defending. Darth didn't "break" anything. He made the auto-resolve feature historically accurate.

Originally Posted by 2gutter67

Here's the thing none of you seem to understand. The battles of the time period were such that the attacking army would need to either vastly outnumber the defenders or so far outskill them that they would suffer few losses. Your screen shots of battles you "expect" to win of 10,000 versus 7,000 for instance would of been battles any respectable general during the era would of thought very tough to win. Frequently, armies of 50,000 strong were repelled by those of 20,000 which were defending. Darth didn't "break" anything. He made the auto-resolve feature historically accurate.

I understand what you're saying but this is a game, and having to fight every battle is just tedious, and it is also unrealistic. There is no way a six unit stack containing two artillery, three line infantry and one grenadier should beat a full army commanded by a six star General. If the roles are reversed and I have the six unit stack there's is very little chance of me winning against a full stack (unless I'm in a fort). I only autoresolve when I know I'm going to win, but this has made it impossible, it's a game-breaker and I have uninstalled it. Which I'm sure is not what Darth intended!

The French are very overrated in autoresolved battles, I had an entire army of British footguards and another half army of line infantry against half a french army made out of fusiliars. Apparently the French had the advantage 40% /60%.

I played the battle myself and of course the entire French army was destroyed in a short period of time.

I obviously stopped playing, too, because as mentioned, its completly gamebraking. Its no fun to fight those uninteresting battles all the time. From time to time, ok, but not every in single time.

Originally Posted by 2gutter67

Here's the thing none of you seem to understand. The battles of the time period were such that the attacking army would need to either vastly outnumber the defenders or so far outskill them that they would suffer few losses. Your screen shots of battles you "expect" to win of 10,000 versus 7,000 for instance would of been battles any respectable general during the era would of thought very tough to win. Frequently, armies of 50,000 strong were repelled by those of 20,000 which were defending. Darth didn't "break" anything. He made the auto-resolve feature historically accurate.

Actually, you are not understanding anything. What you are stating there would make sense, IF and only IF the AI would have the same problem. But the AI can easily repell an Army with a bettere commander and double the size in auto resolve, no matter if defending or attacking. So does that make sense? I bet everyone could upload hundres of screenshots when the attacking army just crushes the defenders, if the ration is 1:1 in auto resolve (if the AI is attacking ofc).

I agree.
So a great modder -So much big and great changes BUT there are things that make you want to uninstall it again.
The best way is (and he started it right)
to always give the USER the option what aspects of the mod, he wants and which ones he does not want.
THATS WHAT MAKES A MOD RLY FANTASTIC - in lots of games, there are great big massive mods -
and as always, there are parts "u like" and " dont like" - AND how happy you are , when "YOU" can decide wich parts to turn on or off

like here - turn the Flags mod, on or off (I turned it off , cause I didnt like it)
or - The modded sounds ( I turned it on, cause I liked it)

It would be great if there was the same for autoresolve..
or if u want the grenades in the game ( what I want)
or the (sorry) silly Darth and Leha pix, as advisors
( It just brings me out of the zone...of that timeperiod)
etc etc...

anyone try changing the line in the preferences?

autoresolve_difficulty 1; # autoresolve_difficulty <int>, Sets the handicap for battles that are autoresolved. Positive gives advantage. -2 is vhard, -1 is hard, 0 normal, 1 easy #

I changed mine 1 many moons ago, not sure if it made a lot of difference.

Originally Posted by DreadNought

Actually, you are not understanding anything. What you are stating there would make sense, IF and only IF the AI would have the same problem. But the AI can easily repell an Army with a bettere commander and double the size in auto resolve, no matter if defending or attacking. So does that make sense? I bet everyone could upload hundres of screenshots when the attacking army just crushes the defenders, if the ration is 1:1 in auto resolve (if the AI is attacking ofc).

Btw I made that post in answer to this. Realize it's been a while, but I haven't delved back into Darthmod for NTW for some time

cant the auto calc battles be modded? i seem to remember there being a text file.

So... because Darth thinks a legitimate game feature was not "intended" to be used, he breaks it on purpose?

I think it's amazing what darth has did to this game i hated napoleon and empire now they are up their with the top of my fav's along with shogun 2 with his mod of course

I was just about to make a thread about this. I also uninstalled Darthmod because of autoresolve. Please add in a feature in Darth mod where you can choose a type of autoresolve, realistic like the Vanilla autoresolve or the Darth mod version which basically forces you to manually do all battles except when you're defending. Darth mod's autoresolve is hugely in favor of defending, I even managed to auto-resolve win when defending against one of Napoleons best generals with a full army of good units, having nothing but militias in my city! It's a bit ridiculous.

Never won a single autoresolve in with Darthmod.