@SubmersedElk:
Y’all may think it’s macho to eschew the battle calculator, but if a game you’ve been playing for hours gets wrecked because you miscalculated a major battle that’s not much fun at all.
For the record, I use the calculator once in a while, too. The issue is more that some players depend on it, and don’t understand what it really is or what it’s limitations are:
1. Unless I’m mistaken, it tells you only who will have units remaining (i.e. “win” the battle), which is not always useful, and that’s only one example of it’s limitations.
2. It makes us dumber. Unless it’s a battle for Moscow where there’s literally dozens of units involved on each side, or some uber-complicated naval battle or something, there’s no reason we shouldn’t force ourselves to figure it out.
3. A few players see that “80%” or “90%” and think they’re entitled to a win and they’re not, and when they don’t win they cry for the next ten rounds about how they should have won the game because of that battle two weeks ago when they lost such-and-such a battle that the calculator promised them they’d win.
The calculator is just a tool, and pretty limited one at that. I think it’s overrated and gets over-relied upon.
Anyways, this thread is getting WAY off topic.