[curtadams]

Even when you know about tricks like "move and patrol" it's easy to forget them in the heat of the moment. A couple of changes that would really reduce the chance of a game being destroyed by a simple mistake after hours or days of play:

1) Units moving as a stack move together. If one can't make it, none do. It's a real waste to have to inspect the entire stack's orders after issuing a 2-province move or sea crossing, and that kind of auditing isn't my idea of fun even when I remember.

2) Likewise units in a group should only sneak if the entire group sneaks. This is particularly acute with nations that have lots of sneakies. It's painfully easy once you mix in a few independents to have only half your army show up and get crushed. (Handy tip: stick a non-sneaky troop under every commander. You need to watch for them dying though!)

3) Move and patrol should be default for castles (and maybe everything). Newbies shouldn't have to lose a game or two before realizing that racing your army to defend your castled province doesn't do a lick of good unless you countermand the order to defend the province with a special "defend the province" order which isn't called "defend". [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Cold.gif[/img] Oh yeah, and see #1 to make sure everybody gets there.