For items like healing potions - yes.  If health < 20 then "drink potion". No brainer. No need to babysit heroes. 

But offensive spells? Fireballs and Golden Hounds randomly decimating your troops? that would be total chaos.

The AI doesn't use spells/abilities very well, giving that control of your own stuff.. you'd be better off just not using it at all to be honest. The amount of effort for this to implemented by the devs would severely outweigh its benefit because they would need to do a pass over AI battle logics.

If you're struggling to manage it then just pause the game to issue orders and use abilities whilst you get more comfortable with the game.

Also limited use items are definitely not trash tier. They are limited because they're free. Free abilities that can be used repeatedly are game-changers.

Terrible idea. 

​What terrible ideas.

Wow, you guys really enjoy microing 10 buttons on each of ~5 heroes in battle?

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Asuzu#2909 wrote:

Wow, you guys really enjoy microing 10 buttons on each of ~5 heroes in battle?

It is called Total War and the game already is super simplified. If you struggle with it lower the difficulty so you don't have to use all these abilities. You can also use the pause option during battles. 

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Asuzu#2909 wrote:

Wow, you guys really enjoy microing 10 buttons on each of ~5 heroes in battle?

YOh think that's hard, try playing a real RTS like Warcraft 3 or StarCraft 

Why is this a terrible idea? Tons of RTS games do things like this. 

Battlefleet Gothic allows you to right click any ability you’d like the AI to use for you. Then it’s as simple as right clicking again to disable AI use. 

While yes the AI in TW is terrible at using offensive spells I still see auto ability triggers being useful for buffing/healing abilities.

No, they should not make the game simpler, but harder...​

Lets not remove the strategy from battles too while were already nerfing the campaign. Thx.

There is a big button called "auto resolve". You won't have to micro manage other buttons with this.

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Steph#6413 wrote:

There is a big button called "auto resolve". You won't have to micro manage other buttons with this.

​Wonderful perspective!

Magic must defeat magic!

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Jarms48#7854 wrote:

Why is this a terrible idea? Tons of RTS games do things like this. 

Battlefleet Gothic allows you to right click any ability you’d like the AI to use for you. Then it’s as simple as right clicking again to disable AI use. 

While yes the AI in TW is terrible at using offensive spells I still see auto ability triggers being useful for buffing/healing abilities.

Because the game is already way to easy and simplified. If anything CA has to make it harder and more complex. OP seems to lack skills so lowering the difficulty and using the pause function is a good advice. But the idea is terrible. 

amazing mod for this already out there