Impressions of Heroes V, for those who have played it.

I agree, autobattle is a great feature; it saves time. :) You attack, you look at the losses, and if you're not happy with them, you play manually. If there are no losses, that's great, and you continue. The AI doesn't really use magic very well, though. ;) The only problem with autobattle and mages is that you don't know if you'll do better or worse, but I always try, and sometimes it works out great, but never worse.