Attack Order - Page 2

GrudgeBringer · #1 May 6th, 2010, 03:32 PM

Well, the ONE thing I DO fear on retreating the Tart is....

If you have only one way to retreat and it is only protected by PD, someone could anticpate your move and use Ghost riders behind you...Dead Tart.

thejeff · #2 May 6th, 2010, 03:47 PM

If you're moving in troops to attack in the movement phase, you have at least one province with a good force in it. Unless you're flying or sailing in, I suppose. But the original context was Chariots.

chrispedersen · #3 May 6th, 2010, 06:05 PM

well returning (via armor of virtue has the advantage that
it returns you to a lab ...

GrudgeBringer · #4 May 6th, 2010, 06:44 PM

But it does that when you are first hit hard...what if I wanted to cast 3 or 4 Rain of Stones...guess you have to give in order to get sometimes.

rdonj · #5 May 6th, 2010, 07:10 PM

Actually it does it the first time you take any damage at all. So if you want to cast multiple rains of stone with it on, you have to be functionally immune to RoS.

Jarkko · #6 May 7th, 2010, 06:19 AM

In an on-going game I did cast Ghost Riders x4, Call of the Wild and Cloud Trapeze, with the GR casters casting their rituals first (1st mage cast GR to province A, 2nd and 3rd to province B, 4th mage casting GR to province A, Call of the Wild to province B, Cloud Trapezed to province C). The combats took place in the following order: 1st the GRx2 attacking province A, 2nd the GRx2 attacking province B, CotW taking over the now empty province B, Cloud Trapezer fighting in province C.

thejeff · #7 May 7th, 2010, 08:09 AM

I'd assume that the castings take place in either mage unit ID order or reversed mage unit ID order. That's how they'll be listed in the messages.

Battles are resolved in either forward or reversed province id order. Which leaves unresolved the question of what happens when there are two battles in the same province. With regular movement phase it seems to be by nation id order, possibly reversed. It might be by order of the first casting mage, but I doubt it.

If so, then in a given turn, all Special Monster (GR, etc) attacks should come either before or after a nation's magic phase attacks. You won't have a mix of some before and some after.

It also suggests that Special Monster attacks sent by different nations would join in one battle. Does that happen? I can't remember seeing a case either way.