[Discuss] Battle while travelling

[Robert Croson, Jr]

On 26 Mar 2008 at 14:28, Josiah Allen wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 2:07 PM, psymann <psymann at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Can someone tell me how this works? > >  If I am in Splodgeville,
> and enemy troops arrive, I fight them in >  Splodgeville.  If I travel
> to Blobville, then I won't fight them.  But >  what about in between?
> > >  Say it's 10 hours from Splodgeville to Blobville, and I travel to
> >  Blobville but am only part-way there.  If I am 2 hours down the
> road (ie >  nearer to Splodgeville) will I be caught in the battle in
> Splodgeville? >   What about if I am 8 hours down the road (ie closer
> to Blobville)? >  And what about if I'm 5 hours down the road (ie
> equidistant from the two)? > >  psymann > > >  -- >  Unsubscribing and
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> You will miss all battles because you are traveling.  Only when you
> 'arrive' can you fight.  This means that given a long enough travel
> period, you could hide in the void for eternity, always turning around
> before you arrive.

Not quite. That changed a while ago. You can only turn around a few times 
before your men will get fed up and refuse to turn around again. Two, maybe 
three times, I forget. You can waste hours to delay your arrival time by 
scouting, training, resting, field camping, etc., but you will eventually arrive at 
one of the two regions. I'm pretty sure that you always travel at lesat a little bit 
every turn.

Also, if you get too close to your destination and still manage to get turned 
around, you can get pulled back into a battle. i.e. if you are only 1 hour away 
from the region full of enemy troops and then turn around, chances are that 
you will get sucked into the battle even though you never "arrived". I've seen 
this happen when a large number of troops are planning multi-turn attacks and 
some get travel bonuses. They try and turn around or delay their arrival, but 
they end up getting into a battle anyway.


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Rob

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