Stealthy Units and the "Defend" Command

[thejeff]

Originally Posted by Kobal2

Wait, thejeff, are you saying that units with the Hide order show up if they're in your own lands ? Sounds weird to me.

No, I was wrong about that. You can't see hidden troops even when they hiding in their own lands. Somehow I'd never noticed that.

Originally Posted by Kobal2

But if they don't, then they should be able to set a trap too : units coming out of stealth happens in the magic phase, not the movement phase. Hide your guys, let him take the province, give the attack order next turn when he's on top of your guys. If I'm not mistaken, you can even teleport mages/thugs on top and they'll join the fun in the same battle.

The only problem is, you'd lose a turn of income and the PD from that prov.

This doesn't work though. I just tested it. Hidden troops will only attack in the magic phase if you teleport someone in. If there is a magic phase battle, they'll join in, otherwise they'll wait til after the movement phase.

FinalGenesis's idea of predicting the attack and uncloaking to meet it should work.