[Tip] Keeping Heroes alive in Auto-Resolve

from Elemental Forums

I hear a lot of people complain that their heroes die in Auto Resolve so they have to fight every battle. Well in case no one else has mentioned it I figured out a way to keep them alive the vast majority of the time. Simply give your Hero a Bow.

Since archers get to attack without the enemy making a counter attack this works great. Before I would turn them all into casters and learned the spell Melting Touch. The problem was the AI was kinda stupid and sometimes even though the Hero had plenty of Mana they would make a melee attack and get killed on the counter. So it only worked about 90% of the time. However the Archer Hero tactic works great and a Hero tends to only die if you get unlucky and the enemy is not wiped out in the first round and chooses to attack you hero. Or if the whole attack group losses of course.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

"Hero tends to only die if you get unlucky and the enemy is not wiped out in the first round" Wait, if its auto resolve, why would rounds come in to play I'm confused.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

I think the game will resolve the battles trough normal combat rounds that are calculated rapidly, without the need for a combat screen or player interaction. I generally steer clear of auto-resolve combat, unless I'm in a hurry, and hearing this, I may not use them very often, since I dont really like using bows. Magic staves that can shoot death lightning on the other hand, that is more my kind of ranged combat. They aren't compulsory are they? I mean, there aren't instances where auto combat kicks in automatically?

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

I've noticed that if you leave melee weapons on a caster (particularly non-sovereign ones) they'll get themselves killed in melee.  Take off the weapon and win.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

I have found that having my heroes use bows is a great way of keeping them alive -=- Now all we need are some nice magic bows....

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting seung-kyu, reply 1
"Hero tends to only die if you get unlucky and the enemy is not wiped out in the first round" Wait, if its auto resolve, why would rounds come in to play I'm confused.
End of seung-kyu's quote

Ever look at the combat log? First all your guys get to attack then the enemy gets to attack. Distance and all other factors are pretty much ignored in auto-resolve. The only thing that matters is if you make a melee attack the enemy gets a counter attack if it survives the hit. So once all your guys make their opening attacks the AI units attack your guys following the same rules. If one of the happens to target your Hero then odds are it could die. But since first strike is all that really matters if you got high ATK guys then it's fine.

Oh yea and everyone seems to get 1 attack regardless of SPD. The whole system seems like it's simply left over place holder that was in for combat during the beta. And even back then people talked about how terrible it was. I figured it would of gotten an overhaul when tactical combat was added but it seems to be just like it was back then. Honestly I think it should do "normal" combat in the background to resolve it cause the current system make utility spells completely worthless.

Quoting unacomn, reply 2
I think the game will resolve the battles trough normal combat rounds that are calculated rapidly, without the need for a combat screen or player interaction.
End of unacomn's quote

Nope. Auto-Resolve uses completely different rules then normal tactical combat. It's just normal tactical combat gets repeative after a while so people like to auto-resolve to speed things along. Like when hunting monsters for gildar as they often spawn as fast as you can kill them in some areas.