Who "owns" a province with besieged fort?

[Huntsman]

For purposes of determining sequence of orders, who owns a province that has a fort under siege? The sieger or the defenders?

Specifically, I'd like to know the order of the following events:

1) I'm sieging a fort and I set my orders to "Storm Castle".
2) The defending player sets orders for an army in an adjacent province to move into the besieged province.

Who moves first? Do I storm the castle and fight the defenders *before* the other player's army attacks?

Thanks!

[The Panther]

It does not matter who owns the castle. The 'Storm Castle' order always comes after movement as well as any other type battles. An army moving in will fight the seigers before storming the castle.

By the way, the province is owned by the seiging army while the fort is owned by the defenders. The gold income from the province is split between the two owners. I think the money split is 50-50, but not sure on this one. The castle owner gets the gem income, though, which is definitely counter-intuitive.

[liga]

Also for the concern of VP, the player owning the castle is the one who get the VP ... so conquering the province is not enough for getting the VP

Liga

[Huntsman]

liga said:
Also for the concern of VP, the player owning the castle is the one who get the VP ... so conquering the province is not enough for getting the VP




You mean I have to take the castle to get the Vice President?! Nonsense!

(okay, what is 'VP' again? I'm thinking Victory Points...)

[quantum_mechani]

Huntsman said:
(okay, what is 'VP' again? I'm thinking Victory Points...)


Yes.

[Huntsman]

The Panther said:

By the way, the province is owned by the seiging army while the fort is owned by the defenders.



This leads to me to another question:

If I move my sieging army out of the province and into an adjacent province owned by me, will my moves be completed before the enemy's? Friendly moves go first, right?

[The Panther]

Movement is simultaneous. Your army moves out and the new army moves it at once, taking the same amount of time to move for either side. You therefore never meet in battle unless you are crossing your armies into each other's provinces. In that case, there is a probablility that your armies will spot each other during movement and fight in one of the two provinces. I have never seen a formula for this probablitity, but it is supposed to be based on the total sizes of the army. This is presumably because larger armies are easier to spot than smaller ones.