Fight Dirty?

[tbontob]

Hmmmm.... In gold, it appears the aggressor appears to have a chance of shooting first. I just posted this in the thread "who shoots first?" a few days ago.

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It gets wierder.

Did some testing.

I had the enemy sit on the other side of the WP.

My ships were faster 13 vs 12.

On the next turn, my ships shot first.

Tested this a number of times and my ships always shot first.

Messed around and added some 12 movement ships to the fleet.

They shot first.

Went back to 13 movement ships and they shot first.

I suspect the defendor normally shoots first when sitting on the WP, but a random element sometimes gives the aggressor the right to shoot first when they are faster.

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The test was done in simultaneous mode.

I am making the assumption that a faster fleet may give them the right of shooting first at times.

Maybe if I tried a large number of tests, I would have an example of a equal speed fleet or slower fleet coming through a WP would shoot first.