dwarves auto resolve better than human controled battles

[sunny44]

When i auto-resolve a battle i get almost half as many casualties then when i fight the battle myself. Is this normal or do i just suck. i fought a 1 on 1vs the OoG and i lost 450+ out of ~650 dwarves and when i reloaded and did a auto resolve the computer lost just over 200.

[Revan The Great]

Well, I guess that would depend on what sort of army you were facing. In any Total War game there's a chance for funky auto resolve results - for example in Rome: Total War, Horse Archers do horrendous in auto resolve compared to how effectively you might be able to use them if you managed them yourself. And, in my experience, TATW has even funkier results than usual sometimes.

It may simply be a case of the game overestimating the worth of whatever troops you were using (or conversely underestimating the true value of the Goblin rabble), thus messing up its calculations when in a real battle any number of variables can effect an outcome which autoresolve doesn't account for.

[IHV]

Auto resolve cant be compared to how human players play battles, not by any way.
Its very far from how battle really should turn out.

[Steward Denethor II]

The reason Dwarves do so well is because infantry does best in auto resolve and the Dwarves have infantry and little else. Also it values quantity over quality, so orcs often do too well. In the meantime, Elves with their many archers and Rohan with its cavalry as a backbone do absolutely horribly in auto resolve.

[Wolfeson]

The reason Dwarves do so well is because infantry does best in auto resolve and the Dwarves have infantry and little else. Also it values quantity over quality, so orcs often do too well. In the meantime, Elves with their many archers and Rohan with its cavalry as a backbone do absolutely horribly in auto resolve.

Exactly. As you might notice in the battles you actually fight, the AI handles cavalry and archers horribly, whereas infantry is kind of like the salad of the TATW buffet (almost impossible to ruin no matter how bad a cook you are). So since the dwarves have almost nothing but infantry, auto-resolve will tend to favor them.

[Mhaedros]

It's really about how you play it. As the dwarves you really have to pick your battles very carefully, and always try to meet your enemy at places that are easy to hold and where you won't be surrounded by the cavalry you lack. Bridges and settlements/ forts are your best friends as the dwarves.

[Goth]

Auto resolve takes into account attack and defence factors only, it doesnt take missile weapons into account and then it throws a random chance in, I imagine dwarves fare better in auto resolve because of their high attack and armour stats with their armour playing a large part.

[Ngugi]

Auto-battle use stats, and a random % of course, to determine the outcome. Of the stats armour value is seemingly most important in the calculation, meaning Dwarves with loads of units with high armour have an advantage.
This however was worse before 3.0, where Dwarves was a bulldozer in every campaign played.

[k/t]

How many secondary HPs do Dwarven units have in Vanilla TA? The difference those make should be small, but if it can help just a little bit, it's worth looking into.

[Mhaedros]

I think it's 2

[k/t]

Make it 0 and see what happens. It's save-compatible.