Attacking Unconnected Provinces

[rdonj]

I think what gandalf is saying is that if special monsters attack independents, then the two groups will fight. But if they're attacked by a random attack that would generate independents, the two groups will merge.

All I was talking about were indy provinces and indy generating attacks, as opposed to special monster groups. So as far as I can tell, what I said should be sound. Although gandalf also seems to be implying that there's a group of special monsters that will attack an indy province and then take it over, which... as far as I can tell, could only even theoretically occur in the case of the eater of the dead going berserk, and I'm not even sure about that one.