Movement question

[Aezeal]

I'm pretty sure I've seen trading places.. quite often I think too.

[Edratman]

I have seen trading places, but only when I was using a small force, say 5 units or less, in an attempt to block the enemy army from moving. This was done in conjunction with an attack on the original enemy province with a larger force from a third province. Easy to remember because it always pisses me off. I've not seen it the other way, but that is probably because the AI won't attack with a force of 5 units.

I don't believe I've ever seen two armies passing without combat if both had at least 25 units (as a guess).

[NTJedi]

Edratman said:
I've not seen it the other way, but that is probably because the AI won't attack with a force of 5 units.

Unfortunately that's not true... the AI will continue attacking with an army until the army retreats off the battlefield. I've seen it march 1 commander armies with only 4 units right into a 40+ independent province.

[Edratman]

NTJedi said:

Unfortunately that's not true... the AI will continue attacking with an army until the army retreats off the battlefield. I've seen it march 1 commander armies with only 4 units right into a 40+ independent province.

I've not seen that. Or at least I don't remember it attcking me that way. I do recall seeing it lose way too many battles in provinces that I have a scout in when it attacks indies or other AI nations, but I seldom view those battles.

[NTJedi]

Edratman said:

I've not seen that. Or at least I don't remember it attcking me that way. I do recall seeing it lose way too many battles in provinces that I have a scout in when it attacks indies or other AI nations, but I seldom view those battles.

Basically the current AI will march it's armies until all the units die and/or flee. Once the AI commander/mage flees it will gather new troops before marching again.

[Nihil]

Thank you for your answers, they have provided me very useful information.