Now I was playing ToW last night and thought "wow I must have played this map like 20 times". I went into the skirmish setting hoping that I can break the staleness by choosing a different map. I notice there is no way to see what other people are doing so I have to host the map and hope someone else shows up. Well 30min later I got bored and stopped.

So why isn't there a quick match setting in Skirmish? In fact I would love it if there was a ranked way to quick match skirmish where it matches you up with people around the same rank as you.

I don't know about all of you, but I would love for there to be a way to jump into a fight on a random map.

Skirmish is flawed in the way it is set up - you have to search each map with each player configuration.

I think the devs imagined 100s of games going on in there, but no-one plays it because you can't use your battalion, and you can't find a game easily.

I agree that there needs to be a quick match option that finds any hosted skirmish. And it would be really good if you could use your ToW battalion there and obtain credits:

a) It would allow people to play whatever map they want when they are sick of the ToW see-saw.
b) It would mean more people actually play skirmish which would...
c) Make the skirmish related trophies/achievements actually achievable.
d) It would allow new players to advance their battalion without negatively affecting the ToW.
e) It would mean the new maps, which look quite good, might actually get played...

Actually, if you could use your persistent battalion in skirmish, would the ToW become dead?

Ill agree with the quick match setting but nothing else as skirmish would be equal ground for tacticians and a more relaxed game atmosphere as you wouldn't have to worry about your units. I love goofing around in skirmish, DC assault all out war charge of DOOOOOM

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Originally posted by Syklar90:
Ill agree with the quick match setting but nothing else as skirmish would be equal ground for tacticians and a more relaxed game atmosphere as you wouldn't have to worry about your units.

Agreed, but the fact remains that it is impossible to get a skirmish game going...unless you play with people on your friend list. No one plays it.

How about using your ToW battalion in Skirmish without the ability to advance, gain credits etc.? You wouldn't even lose units.

It would still be unranked, but you could at least use your own battalion. Like a battlefield simulator, training ground.

I like the idea of being able to earn credits in Skirmish, cause right now as Rank2 I'm getting smashed in ToW by guys that are at least Rank7+

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Originally posted by Syklar90:
Ill agree with the quick match setting but nothing else as skirmish would be equal ground for tacticians and a more relaxed game atmosphere as you wouldn't have to worry about your units. I love goofing around in skirmish, DC assault all out war charge of DOOOOOM

Exactly. This is the way Skirmish should be, where both sides are totally even and it all comes down to tactics.

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Originally posted by Dastard1979:

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Originally posted by Syklar90:
Ill agree with the quick match setting but nothing else as skirmish would be equal ground for tacticians and a more relaxed game atmosphere as you wouldn't have to worry about your units. I love goofing around in skirmish, DC assault all out war charge of DOOOOOM

Exactly. This is the way Skirmish should be, where both sides are totally even and it all comes down to tactics.

How boring would that be? Doesn't anyone like a challenge anymore?

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Originally posted by b_4721:
How boring would that be? Doesn't anyone like a challenge anymore?

I hope that was sarcasm.

Surely it couldn't be hard to implement a choice as to whether to use your ToW battalions or non-persistent ones..?

There is probably a whole issue surrounding result reporting from skirmishes to the battalion server though.

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Originally posted by Dastard1979:

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Originally posted by b_4721:
How boring would that be? Doesn't anyone like a challenge anymore?

I hope that was sarcasm.

No, I don't understand why people get their panties all knotted up when they are attacking uphill, for one thats part of war, and two beating someone with the same advantages as you is hardly more entertaining then beating someone with all recruits against your legendaries.