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On 2011-03-06 11:09:25 -0600, Spalls Hurgenson said:

> On Fri, 4 Mar 2011 19:13:06 -0600, Dan Stephenson
> <stephedanospam@mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2011-03-02 16:57:57 -0600, Sheldon England said:
>> 
> One feature I've always wanted is to have the computer resolve the
> battles, but let me WATCH it do so.
> 
> I enjoy the strategic game but I'm tactically inept when it comes to
> the actual battles. Fortunately, the games let you autoresolve the
> conflicts, but they did it behind the scenes; you just got a summary
> screen telling you the outcome. Since the whole point of the Total War
> games was battles with the insane number of units, I missed out on a
> lot of the experience.

That is a good point.  After all, the computer DOES do the AI.  Even AI 
for 're-enforcement armies'.

Did you read my city defense article?  Hopefully that gave you some 
ideas.  I'll write a big battlefield article at some point, but not 
tonight.  The basics, though, are: put archers behind infantry and try 
to use cavalry to wheel around the enemy and attack while they're 
engaged with your infantry.

> 
> Watching the battles would be a lot more fun than a dry outcome
> summary. It might inspire me to fight a few of the battles myself,
> too.

even if you do nothing in the battles, you can watch the AI attack you. 
 Usually the starting army formation is OK.
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