About simulated battles

[AndreSo]

after being knocked out.

Do the simulated battles figure in unit types at all?

I defended Dihrim and got knocked out. After that I have no option whatsoever but to continue to have my men defend the place without me. The keep getting 20-30 killed while taken out around (or slightly less) the same numbers of the enemy. That's with Swadian Knights, a few Marmeluks and other high tier units. In siege defense.

Then again maybe numbers figure in alot, maybe my men were outnumbered 3 to 1 in all those simulated battles?

Not whining about losing my 50 knights, companions, shield and armor, but the battle simulator seemed to leave my men utterly useless. Not saying they should've won outnumbered 3 to 1, but found it funny they couldn't take more enemies with them, being elite units in siege defense and all.

 

[HTAPAWASO]

Native auto-calc is pretty bad.

Not sure if it's changed in Warband, but in the original it went on solely numbers.


There were some mini-mods which changed it for the original though, one very complex one which factored in every skill and piece of equipment on every troop which was pretty cool.
Hopefully they'll be ported/remade for Warband (assuming they don't work as is...)

 

[Sparhawk81]

Yes, our troops in simulated battles are pretty dumb and uneffective. I fail to understand why because on the battlefield, even if left without instructions except the charge command, they are instead quite decent

 

[bobstar_24]

Yeh, they are really hopeless on their own...
If I'm low on health, I usually just fall back to a safe location and tell all my cav to charge their men and I lose about 1/10 of what auto-calc would give me

 

[HTAPAWASO]

By the way, in the original, if you played in edit mode and enabled it just as you died, you could have the battle play out as normal.

Presumably it still works in Warband.

 

[raul-1]

i think you can easily change this, so the battle continues,
you can request here, maybe he will bring you the code.
http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,108671.0.html

 

[Boduar]

Autocalc in this game is terrible I was also defending dhirim with about 150 heavy cav + 60 sharpshooters ... after killing the first 300ish at around 10:1 trade if not better I fall off the wall and get knocked out ... my army then does not even go 1:1 and I lose the city.  They seriously need to get a better calculator because since im playing without saving mode it was a very very very very very bitter defeat and a very stupid one (its like a general losing a fight because he went to tie his shoes and lost his balance and rolled down a hill and broke his neck).

 

[Masterja]

I had army of 150 huscarls and companions. Then i attacked the fearsome looters, about 10 of them.
I LOST 2 HUSCARLS!!!!

 

[original]

I had army of 150 huscarls and companions. Then i attacked the fearsome looters, about 10 of them.
I LOST 2 HUSCARLS!!!!

Heheh, reminds me of the spearman vs tank in Civ 3.

 

[Deneidez]

Simulated battles are basically nothing but attacking troops strength based on troop level vs defending troops strength based on troop level and defenders get first attack. So defending looters will attack as a whole in first phase and might even kill few highest tier troops.
(If they have enough strength to make 2 swadian knights as casualties, they have about 5% chance to make one swadian knight as casualty.)

Strength in battle:
Unit strength = (((level+12)^2)/100)
(Round down)

Casualties:
Casualty prob = ((10001/(level+5))/10001)*100
(Round down)

 

[Bonden]

I had army of 150 huscarls and companions. Then i attacked the fearsome looters, about 10 of them.
I LOST 2 HUSCARLS!!!!

I know..I know..

Its like a slap in the face, like, yeah, losing 2 soldiers out of your big army isn't really a big deal, but it sucks to lose them.  Ugh, the auto-calc...

 

[Captain_Octavius]

Go to your module.ini and change player_wounded_treshold = 5 to player_wounded_treshold = 0

Now you are never forced to use the autocalc anymore, as you will even be able to join the battle at 0 hitpoints.

 

[blitzking]

Yeah, battle calculator SUCKS. One time I tried anainst 14 sea raiders, and lost 2 huscarls and a sword sister. my army is 69 strong, WTF? And thy only lost 8.