What happenes if me + enemy move on my castle?

[Argitoth]

What happenes if I move onto my castle and the enemy moves onto my castle? Will my army be inside the castle while the enemy sieges or will there be a battle outside of the castle?

[vfb]

If you do a normal "move" then you will be inside your castle, and your enemy will be sieging you, assuming they kill your PD.

If you want to stay outside your castle and fight, change the command of your units to "move and patrol", after giving them the move order. In this case, your army and PD would battle the enemy outside your castle.

[ano]

If you give the order "move", you'll stay inside the castle. To fight outside the walls use "move and patrol"
upd: vfb, you were first to use almost the same words while I was typing)

[Argitoth]

what? how do you issue move and patrol order?


Does that make battles happen if you and your enemy try to move on each other's provinces at the same time?

[thejeff]

It's not intuitive. Give the standard move, then change the order to Move and Patrol, which will have appeared on the units menu.

I don't think it has any effect on intercepting moving enemies. Actually, I don't think you can give it when moving to anything other than province you own with a castle in it.

[Gregstrom]

You can't.

NB: if you're moving into a province of your own and an enemy is moving into the same province, you will always get there first.

[Nikolai]

Unless enemy teleports mages, and kills PD and prior patrollers in magic phase. This way he not only gets the first turn (defender) against your moving army, he will intercept even army that otherwise goes behind walls.

[Argitoth]

oh, great... Nikolai, I just lost the game (not the one on my server) because of the very thing you just mentioned lol!