Just got smoked in a combat that I *thought* wouldn't happen--was this a bug?

[johan osterman]

Break siege, break siege and resulting combats take place at the same time as moving into enemy territory by ordinary means.

[Arryn]

So Break Siege (and any other movement-induced combats) take place prior to Storm Castle. Good to know. Thanks.

[johan osterman]

IIRC storm castle is the Last combat possible in a turn.

[Yossar]

Originally posted by johan osterman:
IIRC storm castle is the Last combat possible in a turn.

Sneaking units can be discovered and attacked after.

[Yossar]

Originally posted by pole_shift:
The attacker (whomever's Capitol you were besieging) was moving into an enemy province (the one with the capitol but controlled by UDH = "undead dolphin hacker"). UDH was moving *his* army as well into an enemy controlled province. The question is: which movement happens first? I believe (but would like dev/veteran confirmation) that the order is randomly determined.

i.e. bad luck for UDH

All non-friendly movements occur simultaneously, don't they? Which is why if you try to chase a unit you'll never catch him. I guess either someone magically transported in (would that result in a battle with just that unit since magic battles are resolved before movement?) or he got stopped by the small unit moving in (There's some kind of check when two armies collide with a result of one or neither getting stopped?).

[geo981010]

Originally posted by johan osterman:
Geo: Could you rephrase that?

It started with Demosthenes:

According to the manual, movement between friendly provinces occurs before movement into enemy territory.

Then Zen asked

Also there is the question if a Sieged Province is considered under control of the Castle owner or the Sieger for purposes of movement.

And KO answered

The besieger. For friendly movement etc purposes.

Ok, so assume that Abysia is sieging Jotun's castle at province A, and tries to move to province B that Jotun owns (no storming, just moving). But Jotun has an army that moves from province B to province A on the same turn. So that means that the Jotun army moves before the Abysia army does since that is considered friendly movement? Normally there is the collision and pushback chance when two armies move at each other like this, but with the above quotes I am wondering if this is a different case...

[ February 19, 2004, 03:49: Message edited by: geo981010 ]

[Demosthenes]

Your two armies move at the same time.