Good questions msew. And... I had originally written up this long winded answer to each individual question. Which is just lame, no one is going to remember or care what you can or cant do in situation a, b, z, x, etc. So lets just restate the house rule with the following addition:
[*] Mages cannot participate in combat without 25 troops per mage in combat with them.
[*] Mages can move about however they want in any *friendly* province, but must have orders set to Retreat unless they are with an army or in a fort.
Now - before people start complaining about having to change orders all the time!! You dont need to reset the orders of every single one of your mages when they step out of a fort. Just be realistic: is this mage going sitesearching in friendly, safe provinces? Or moving from one fort to another in your empire? Then dont bother changing orders. But if you are sending a mage from a forward fort to an army in a warzone then you should definitely set them to retreat (until they arrive at the army).
I know its trouble to do this guys but I think its the solution that provides the most flexibility. You get the freedom of moving your mages around without worrying overmuch about rules or some huge list of situations you need to check against. And it still makes mages conform with the spirit of the Age of Men house rules.
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msew said:
What are the rules for moving solo mages:
a) from forts to other forts
b) from forts to adjacent armies
c) from forts to armies in the field
d) from armies in the field to other armies in the field
e) from site searcing (if they can) to armies in the field
f) from an army in the field to solo sight searching (if they can)
g) from armies in the field BACK to a fort
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