Newby Question

Ironhawk · #1 February 17th, 2005, 03:56 PM

BoneDaddy, are you quite sure of that? I have never seen that situation in all my games.

Andy, exactly what situation are you describing? Are there two provinces, A (yours) and B (thiers) and you are trying to move A->B on the same turn they are trying to move B->A? If that is the case there will, in my experience, always be a battle. Whether the battle is in province A or B is not well known tho.

Perhaps you are referring instead to a situation with three or more provinces i.e.: you move from A->B while the enemy moves from B->C, then back to A, etc, etc. I refer to this problem as the "wack-a-mole" problem and it is mostly encountered while playing dom2 AI SP. The way to get around it there is to use Province Defense to control what provinces the AI chooses to select (it selects the weakest, richest province, i think). In this way you can coax the AI into attacking the province that your army is about to move to and thus destroy them.

Additionally, attacking the raiding army magically, via remote summoning or some kind of teleporting, will cause a battle before the movement phase so you can stop them that way as well.

BigDaddy · #2 February 17th, 2005, 04:00 PM

The information is from the book, page 12.

BigDaddy · #3 February 17th, 2005, 04:08 PM

You can ussually use providence defence to stop these minor invasions. Otherwise you just have to guess where they'll go, which is typically a province (A) with a temple and/or (B) that is only slightly defended or undefended.

Ironhawk · #4 February 17th, 2005, 05:56 PM

I'll take your word for it that the manuals says that. But even so, I have never seen two armies moving into each other's respective provinces "miss" each other. There is always a battle - it is just a matter of which province the game decides to hold it in.

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BigDaddy said:
The information is from the book, page 12.

bone_daddy · #5 February 17th, 2005, 06:51 PM

Uhh, that was BigDaddy.

We're not the same person. At least not the last time I checked.

Kristoffer O · #6 February 17th, 2005, 07:11 PM

Hmm, there seems to be a confusion all over these boards concerning your identities. BigDaddy believes you are he (or believes that I believe that you are he). He even claims nerdiness as in post regarding random numbers.

Still, I know that the cigar smoking skull with a child being raised into glorified nerdhood is bone_daddy. That is good knowledge.

BigDaddy · #7 February 17th, 2005, 07:38 PM

I have long since come to terms with my inner nerd.

Haven't you?

bone_daddy · #8 February 18th, 2005, 03:12 PM

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.

Kookookachoo

andywatkins · #9 February 18th, 2005, 11:32 AM

That is exactly what I am describing. a to b and b to a. Under those circumstances I have NEVER seen a battle take place. I think it should be 50-100% of the time but appears to be 0% of the time.

Andy

Andy, exactly what situation are you describing? Are there two provinces, A (yours) and B (thiers) and you are trying to move A->B on the same turn they are trying to move B->A? If that is the case there will, in my experience, always be a battle. Whether the battle is in province A or B is not well known tho.

Tuidjy · #10 February 18th, 2005, 04:24 PM

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andywatkins said:
That is exactly what I am describing. a to b and b to a. Under those circumstances I have NEVER seen a battle take place. I think it should be 50-100% of the time but appears to be 0% of the time.

It is possible. If the two armies are very small, it happens more often than
not. Two turn ago, in my current game, I sent an Air Queen and a warlock to
an enemy province. At the same turn, two priests moved from that province to the
province from which my guys started. The two armies missed each other, and
both attacked their respective destinations.

Jurri should be able to confirm this.