Hi,

Enjoyed almost everything else about this mod, but it feels like the flawed autoresolve balance hampers the game to the point of near unplayability. After looking around I found absolutely no mention of this problem anywhere, so it's either not as prevalent as it seems to me or there is something I don't really understand about the mod.

The crux of the issue are the orks - their autoresolve values are drastically different from how they actually perform in combat, and since they make up so much of the evil forces, it completely messes with the flow of the war. An AI-led army of purely orks can wipe an AI elven army with just a 20-30% advantage in numbers, with even more absurd autoresolve results in sieges (500 Lorien elves failing to siege Troll Cave with 300 orks - tested by a friend). Since ork-heavy warbands are coded to be more numerous than those of the good races, these autoresolve values generally snowball into mordor / moria casually stomping gondor / elves without the player intervening and is the main reason for evil winning the war by default.

The other side of the coin is that in actual, non-autoresolved battles orks are beyond garbage and fielding them is honestly not beneficial. As we all know, fodder tactics are not viable in M&B since unit slots are valuable in every wave and having your first wave wiped is horrendous, so even with large battle sizes (300+), a reasonable first elven / human wave is capable of simply standing their ground and wiping an indefinite number of ork waves without any challlenge whatsoever. They're simply to understatted to acomplish anything, regardless of how many there are.

Overall, this leads to ludicrous gameplay. On the side of good, you basically have to follow friendly lords / sieges around and try to save them from their autoresolve-induced doom, playing out their battles as ork-based armies suicidally throw themselves into you and you mop them up without much trouble. On the evil side, you have to not only avoid recruiting orks, but also avoid helping any friendly orks with their fights, since they fare so much better in autoresolve than an actual battle and will almost assuredly get wiped if you intervene.

Overall, this is just a bit too janky and once you really pay attention to it, the whole war is kinda difficult to take seriously. I'd like to tune the autoresolve values but after looking into it, I'm really unsure on how the mod dev implemented the party limit increases on the ork units and how this affects the campaign AI, so I'm looking for any useful input on how to solve this.