Random move armies and casting sequence

[thejeff]

Herode said:
Yes, but what about symetrical situations ? The standard case is : my army in A attacks an ennemy province X. An ennemy army in Y attacks my army in A. Who moves first and why ?

But why is that ? Is initiative dependant on the nation ?

Both armies move simultaneously. Your army in A attacks X. The enemy from Y attacks A, after your army has left.

There have been claims that attacks always go in nation id order if 2 armies attack a 3rd party province and that seems most common, but I have seen it reverse.

[Herode]

Both armies move simultaneously. Your army in A attacks X. The enemy from Y attacks A, after your army has left.

That's not the case in my present game at least. Here, Y attacks A and pins it, thus A does not attack X. At least when I am Abysia and tha AI plays (actually) Jotunheim or Mictlan. One exception occured nevertheless when I tried to assassinate an ennemy commander (but not the unique commander) in Y. But it can be just a coincidence.

Maybe there's a bonus for AI as Jim suggests ?

[thejeff]

I've never seen or heard of that happening.

Two possibilities:
1) Assuming X is held by the same nation as Y, could an army from X be joining the attack on A, thus stalling your army and the battle then takes place in A?

2) There is a rare bug where armies simply can't attack across certain province boundaries. The army simply doesn't move as you ordered it to. If that happened and Y attacked the same turn, it could look like Y intercepted.


Other than that you should never be able to catch an enemy army by moving into it's province, unless they're attacking the province you're coming from.

[JimMorrison]

thejeff said:
1) Assuming X is held by the same nation as Y, could an army from X be joining the attack on A, thus stalling your army and the battle then takes place in A?

The AI is VERY good at performing this maneuver, since they are recruiting everywhere, at all times. I've definitely stopped taking for granted that I can attack anywhere that I intend to, and really just cross my fingers.

The Tractor Beam has many guises.

[Herode]

1/ this is an option indeed. BTW, I can't say for sure from what province are coming the ennemy units I see on the battlefield.

2/ I didn't know that bug but it's not the case here.

Hmmm, I think I'll have to drive some tests in a controled environment in order to bring some light on this question...