Bug or manual wrong?

[Tuidjy]

Hmm... in my testing a while ago, units hidden in the province attacked during the
magic phase. Thus, whether they will attack before or after the ghost riders is a
matter of luck.

[Rathar]

Sounds like there is a battles which require movement phase and a battles which do not or at least something acting like it

[LoloMo]

Same experience here, stealthed scouts attacking the province they were hiding in attack during the magic phase.

[Xietor]

Break Siege requires no movement, and is specifically listed in the manual as occurring after the magic phase battles. So I do not see scouts attacking during the magic phase as thematically sound or consistent with the manual.

[B0rsuk]

So you can actually ambush enemies ? Nice.

[Tuidjy]

I do not think it is a bug, and frankly I like it. In the perfect world, you
could choose whether the stealthers attacks with the teleporters or with the
grunts. But I like to have the option to sneak in troops, and have them support
the teleporters... after all, they are already in place. If I want to attack
after the magic phase, I just attack from a different province...

[llamabeast]

So I guess, Xietor, the best way to make your tactic work is to have your scouts in the _adjacent_ province, and have them attack from there.

[Xietor]

Yes, of course llama.

But I am just trying to determine if this was a deliberate change in the last patch, or a bug. I have done this numerous times in the past and the ghost riders ALWAYS went 1st. Now trying call of wild and ghost riders at same province was always pot luck.