Exactly. 💯 Not sure why CA thinks it is a good idea to make the AR so easy you can practically skip all battles.
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Yea this is really kind of necessary to remind you to fight which is the whole freaking point of the game here. Basically people are playing a campaign map becuase of the simple autoresolve. Thanks!

Thanks for the compliment, glad you like it.
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Gotta say i'm really having fun with this. Something thats always bothered me was feeling a lack of battles as the game progresses due to snowballing and even in cases like taking settlements being easy to do. So its nice to still have to do various battles even later in the campaign and do battles in which it often means its worth playing with more caution. Tabletop caps keeps it going actively to with decision making on how to go about making the best out of the choices.

Probably one of my favorite things that I've gotten into more of was defending sieges which never ever seemed to happen for me. More of these have had to be fought and it really adds to keeping your settlements safe (paired with few siege related mods to improving them+garrison).

Overall has been very enjoyable, appreciated :)

Thanks, glad you like it.
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Love this one together with Radious. Many battles have to be fought now. But i can still be lazy with trivial battles for the most part.

Well, that is a bit tricky. Changes to the autoresolve do affect the AI, but this particular change is dealing with difficulty levels, but then after that, I think it uniformly affects the auto-resolve based on that selected difficulty level. But then this is getting very technical and full of assumptions (only CA would know exactly how it actually works in that regard).

Either way, the overall gameplay does not seem to be severely altered here, it just means the player will fight more battles the higher the selected difficulty, as far as I can tell.

Hey, interessting mod. Does this mod only affect the autoresolution of "Player vs AI" or also AI vs AI?

Updated the mod just now to accommodate CA's "great capital letter table debacle" CTD bug.

Great, thanks!

Sounds like it should be compatible with a mod like that.

Is it compatible with configurable autoresolve?(it just locks some autoresolve so you fight on field)

ah yeah, I wasn't sure if you modified with individual units or not. Not a big problem, I'm liking it so far :)

Thanks, well, I cannot adjust the individual "kps" that the game calculates for certain units. Some are just too effective, some aren't, unfortunately.

I've been using this a lot recently with VH/VH but no AI battle stat buffs overall I'm liking it, vanilla is way to forgiving and another mod I tried was way too punishing. I noticed that maybe warpfire throwers might be given too much value or something idk. Been playing beastmen, and against large skaven slave armies with only a few clanrats, the results are decisive, but a single warpfire thrower thrown in the mix will make it a phyrric victory with unit deaths. I mean I got chariots and minotaurs, a frontline of skavenslaves means nothing to me!

Excellent, glad it is better.

that's a big improvement, thanks!

I just updated the mod, and came up with a compromise. I narrowed the spread from normal to legendary a bit more from what it was, so the top end difficulty levels have less of a penalty, while normal remains the same. This might help take the extreme edge off the top difficulty settings.

I have to be careful not to adjust it too much more, but I could (in time) lower it a tiny bit more while still keeping within the intent of the mod. Let's see.

Awesome mod. Thank you, Volcano.

I want to write some thoughts, though. In my opinion mod works best for Easy/Normal battle difficulty settings. Once it's set to Hard/Very Hard the results are very biased in AI's favor. I often saw battles when I faced ridiculously weak armies (like skavenslave stack with no Legendary Lord) but were calculated as crushing defeat to me. Whereas I had a pretty decent Empire stack with Karl Franz in charge.

So maybe you will have some free time to make a Lite-version of this awesome mod, where numbers of AI's advantage are reduced (maybe -25% or even -50%) I think this one will work very well for VH/Legendary campaign for many people. I can test such mod.

Out of curiosity I tested it with and without the mod (I probably should've done this in the first place!) but yeah, default vanilla only uses battle difficulty. This mod makes it so both difficulty settings play a role in the outcome.

It's easy to test by sieging, encircling and changing the difficulty

Hmm, I thought a while ago the autoresolve is based on the campaign difficulty. Maybe CA changed this later after complaints about it being connected to battle difficulty.

Does this mod adjust based on Campaign Difficulty or Battle Difficulty? I see only Campaign Difficulty mentioned in the description

Asking because a yt video explains that in Vanilla WH3, auto-resolve is weirdly based only on Battle Difficulty. Easy Battle Difficulty multiplies your army value by a huge amount, Normal Battle Difficulty still multiplies it by a lot; but Campaign Difficulty doesn't affect it at all, leading to frustrations where new players on easier battle difficulties can't possibly outperform their autoresolve outcomes

Thanks for the compliment. Yes this mod should work well with just about anything, and with 80+ mods I guess that finally proves it.
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Well done! This absolutely saved the game for me. Late game, even with SFO and other mods, is so BORING once a doomstack or two are made. This mods forces me to think more strategically and to fight more battles.

p.s. I'm using SFO + 80 other mods; this mods works great in my testing so far using Vampire Coast.

Correct, only human factions, and the severity depends on the difficult level setting (of the campaign, not battle, if I recall).

just to be clear this only affects the player faction right? Ai fighting ai autoresolve is not touched?

ye im totally agree with u, then the 0.15 version has no sense for you and me, 0.3 or 0.4 is super OK

I could consider lowering it to 0.4 (incrementally lower, because I like it where it is personally), but I play with multiplayer campaigns (coop and H2H) with this mod and everyone seems to enjoy it -- the goal is to simulate only the most lop sided battles. If I lower it too much, there will be too much simulating going on, I think. I would have to experiment.

Hello, -0.3 version is possible? :) feels like -0.5 is way to much and -0.15 isnt enough (lite version)

This mod is awesome in solo but when i play coop we are forced to play every battle XD so we spend 1h per turn lol

It should be, unless SFO changes something to do with the autoresolve. You can put this mod at the top of the loading order to be sure.

Is this compatible with SFO?

Strange, I had not been getting notifications to the last month worth of comments - but just now started receiving them.

@ ekvilion
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Thanks, glad you both like it. Have fun!

thanks for this mod very thanks

Thanks for this mod. In short, the game simply does not work correctly without it. A must for everyone.

I would put the AI overhaul at the top of the list to have priority, then if you suspect something isn't working right then try the AI overhaul at the bottom.

Cool thank you! Would you recommend your mods above or below a campaign ai overhaul mod?

It doesn't affect the AI much as far as I can tell. I have been playing with all these mods on for years, and the AI isn't noticeably different, at least not in a bad way.

Concerned about how this mod+Longer battles and realistic accuracy affect campaign AI behavior because of the statisical changes and the autoresolve results

@GarrGarr
The "wall of text" describes what to expect after the change, not what the exact change was. Most people expect some kind of description of what to expect.

But yes, as I mentioned, I am utilizing some variables that CA decided to abandon. After that, it took hours of testing different values to come up with something that works.

tldr: modder used a wall of text to describe how they changed the auto resolve penalty modifier from 0 to -.4

I've been extremely happy with all of Volcano's mods, and this including all my other favorite mods from other creators also deserves a comment and shoutout (which really is the very least I can do)

I've really been incentivized to play out my battles more often, and it's great to see a "crushing defeat" on the auto resolve as a metric to measure by, and turn it into a close, decisive, and sometimes even heroic victory! It's elevated my enjoyment of this game to profound levels. While before I'd be inclined to auto resolve, and therefore miss out on half the game, because I knew auto resolve would give me a better result than playing it out, this mod has turned that on its head!

Great great stuff Mr Volcano! Huge fan of your work!

No, the AI doesn't seem to factor in the auto resolve results when attacking -- at lest I haven't seen the AI attack in ways where they will be easily defeated, except for when it gets suicidal when it is down to fumes.

So it might take into account the auto resolve in some way, like the DPS of units, but this mod affects the player's penalty in the autoresolve that doesn't seem to affect the AI's decision making much, or at all.

Thanks for making this mod! Quick question, I was reading the AI usually decides when to attack based off estimated auto resolve results. Does that mean this mod will actually make the AI engage and be more aggressive, as they think they will have a better chance of winning? I'm hoping to have the AI attack me more and get more last-stand type defensive sieges

Great thanks for the answer:)

The mod has been in use for almost two years now, and no one has complained about it. You are still able to bring in the double stacks to plow through the battles, albeit at suffering higher losses if you do, but nothing that is unreasonable. It mainly comes down to having to fight out the singular army battles, most of the time - which is a good thing.

Bit worried that factions that already have a tough time with auto resolve, vampirates, skaven etc

will be forced to fight almost every battle:/

You are welcome. Happy gaming.

Thank you man

Thanks, glad you like it. Have fun!

Of all the mods I have subscribed to, this one is the best. Thanks.