How "Auto Resolve" calculated?

[amoc]

I try to find calculation behind Auto resolve. Best what i can find is a long Post in Nexusmods from keehuu(sticked).

Better Auto Calc

You have a 50 man party, with 30 elite cataphracts and 20 recruits. You decide to fight some looters and now 5 cataphracts are dead. Yeah... this mod will help you with that.

www.nexusmods.com

Do anyone can say its still uptodate? Or have someone an idea how its calculated? I´m not talking about Tactic skill, its no brainer. I´m want to know best for min-max in troop wise.

- How much impact have units tier?
- Foot troops with horse? Better to use only cavalary?
-Most effective unit/wage?

 

[Ananda_The_Destroyer]

It's been changed since then but I don't know what it is. I think on the beta it has been changes also to give bonuses based on terrain to some troops types.

 

[AJAJP_Juan]

The autoresolve is faction-agnostic.

The thing that matters for troops is their power (GetPower), which is literally just three things:
Hero? 50% bonus.
Tier? This determines most of a unit's power.
Mounted? 20% bonus.

From there is the usual dicerolls (SimulateHit and GetSimulatedDamage) which other people covered in more detail.

Cataphracts (T5 or T6) are never going to need a 3-to-1 or 4-to-1 ratio to beat a typical Khuzait force, since most Khuzait mounted units aren't that high tier. And even if the Khuzaits were only T5 or T6 -- for whatever reason -- the exchange ratio would be around 1 to (napkin math) 1.3 at worst. That's before getting into the issue that higher numbers are favored by (usually) rolling first, so right from the beginning they kill some of the less numerous defenders.

This missing the new buffs and debuffs to cavalry, archers and mounted archers depending on terrain.

 

[amoc]

This missing the new buffs and debuffs to cavalry, archers and mounted archers depending on terrain.

1-So, its not best strategy to have only cavalry? You have not only fight in the open field.

2-Have you uptodate buffs and debuffs value?

 

[AJAJP_Juan]

1-So, its not best strategy to have only cavalry? You have not only fight in the open field.

2-Have you uptodate buffs and debuffs value?

1. Depends where you plan to fight most of the time, but as rule of thumb, cavalry only is not advised for autoresolve only mainly for its cost.

2. From the 1.2 Beta Changelong (that is, not on the live version, but the beta)

Reworked the Auto Battle Calculation system.

• Mission and terrain types now provide bonuses or penalties for attackers and defenders.
• For example, an attacking horse archer on flat terrain now has a large bonus but if you throw him into the forest that converts into a large penalty. Defending archers do great in a siege while attacking ones receive a penalty and so on.
• Perks of the Army/Party leader that have a Captain effect now also give a bonus to all the troops under their command. A tier is determined for each of these perks and those are then counted together. Tier 1-3 gives a bonus of 1%, tier 4-6 of 2%, tier 7-8 of 3%, and tier 9+ of 6%.
  • For example, having the Deft Hands (T6) and Form Fitting Armor (T2) perks results in a bonus of 3% (T8 ).

 

[Apocal]

This missing the new buffs and debuffs to cavalry, archers and mounted archers depending on terrain.

Probably because it was a post made three years ago.

 

[Hero07911010]

The player can make max tier troops with the two Steward perks. The AI can't use those perks, because they never get loot from a battle, only gold, and they never buy gear from shops. The player can always have the advantage.
TW made changes to auto resolve, so you don't use just one type of troop to always win every auto resolve, like we could before. Your best bet is to use a variety of troops, at or near max tier. Tier was very important in the match ups, I haven't tested it recently. If you lose troops, replace them with recruits and donate gear to raise their tier.