Mutual attacks - where do they fight?

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Chazar:
I doubt that "always": Since I love Caelum, I usually start my attacks from various provinces. Sometimes it works, and sometime it doesnt. The good thing is that if one of your flying armies catches the enemy before he leaves the province, always all of your armies join the battle. If the enemy is moved first, he will only battle against the army residing in the province he attacks.

This works fine if you're attacking from a province that is not being attacked in turn. If you launch from several provinces, including one that is being attacked, the enemy will attack first.

I guess thats due to the random evaluation of movement: Whichever army is moved first decides where the battle takes place.

I don't believe it's truly random. As a programmer myself, I've come to firmly distrust anything that somebody says is "random". If it's random, it's invariably a cover for an amusing, but sadistic behavior that uses the alleged randomness as a screen.

One important thing to remember is that movement within friendly provinces is evaluated always before anything else, so defending a province from multiple points always works, regardless whether other armies attack the defenders starting provinces!

I am aware of this.