Another newbe question...

[Lunaticus]

After having played the game for some weeks I have two questions for the community (if this has been discussed before I would be grateful for a link):
1. How is the order of movements on the strategic map calculated? I remember there was a post somewhere that if A moves to B and B moves to A they might battle in the middle (or at A or B). What if I want to catch an army that is moving away from me? Can I somehow make sure that I move to them and force them to a battle before they move away? Also how is the order of combats in a province resolved (i.e. who is the lucky one to attack the province Last)?
2. What is the advantage of the fire magic spell combustion? In my (admittedly limited) experience it only does a very small amount of damage to the target. Is there some other benefit somehow?
Thanks in advance.

[von_Schmidt]

Originally posted by Nirvana:
After having played the game for some weeks I have two questions for the community (if this has been discussed before I would be grateful for a link):
1. How is the order of movements on the strategic map calculated? I remember there was a post somewhere that if A moves to B and B moves to A they might battle in the middle (or at A or B). What if I want to catch an army that is moving away from me? Can I somehow make sure that I move to them and force them to a battle before they move away? Also how is the order of combats in a province resolved (i.e. who is the lucky one to attack the province Last)?

Answer: movement happens at the same time, so you will never catch up unless that army decides to stay put.
Exception: if armies move into each other's provinces, the larger army 'pushes' the smaller back.
Exception2: movement into friendly provinces happens before 'invasions'.
I am not sure which army fights first when 2 nations move into the same province.

2. What is the advantage of the fire magic spell combustion? In my (admittedly limited) experience it only does a very small amount of damage to the target. Is there some other benefit somehow?
Thanks in advance.

A: I *think* it has 100% precision (ie: will hit every time). Possibly igonres armour? I remember using it a lot as Abyssia (whose mages have horrible precision).
But now I am just guessing...

[tinkthank]

A further question and some attempt at answers:

- I think combustion also fatigues the target, and does DoT.
- I think who attacks a province when is random. Troops *can* meet in the middle, but this is not a must.

Further question:
- If I use a mass-movement spell (Faerie Trod, Astral Travel) to move Army A to attack a province P and at the same time invade province P with ground forces B moving in from a P-neighbor, will I be able to attack that province with A&B simultaneously, or will Army A first attack province P (magic movement) and thus, depending on the outcome, either army B simply moves into my subsequently friendly territory B (or attacks the enemy province P which decimated my poor Army A)?
thanks

[mivayan]

(...) or will Army A first attack province P (magic movement) and thus, depending on the outcome, either army B simply moves into my subsequently friendly territory B (or attacks the enemy province P which decimated my poor Army A)?

This is what will happen.

[magnate]

What about if I am moving two armies into province P, from A and B, and the enemy moves his army OUT of P, into A. Will he fight my A army alone, or will I get to pound him with both armies together, or will they harmlessly pass each other by?

CC

[Endoperez]

Depends on the army sizes, among others. I am not sure, but I don't think there are special rulings for a situation like that.