Re: Random move armies and casting sequence
 

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.

Re: Random move armies and casting sequence
 

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 ?

Re: Random move armies and casting sequence
 

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.

Re: Random move armies and casting sequence
 

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. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

The Tractor Beam has many guises. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

Re: Random move armies and casting sequence
 

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...