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Originally Posted by namad
it has nothing to do with who acts before who...that is not how combat movement is determined
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Actually, yes, it is.
Movement resolution order:
1) Friendly movement (between provinces you own)
2) Offensive movement
---Nations resolve in an order determined at game start. That order is maintained for the entire game. Its unclear (to me) if that order is determined randomly at game start, or if there is some ordering algorithm that always applies - i've seen proposed that its in nation ID order or reverse nation ID order (ie, one of those determined at game start).
---Movement by troops from the same nation probably happens in a predetermined order (I seem to recall my combat reports are always ordered by commander in the early game when there is only one commander/army), but irrelevant because units moving to the same territory join up before combat.
Note: Stealth units attacking a province in the same turn a magic phase movement into that province (by you) occurs will join the magic movement attackers.
Therefore, if you move before me one turn, you will always move before me because that ordering is set.
Note: this is not what the manual says. The manual is proveably wrong on this point.