[Discuss] Battle while travelling

[Josiah Allen]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Robert Croson, Jr <robert at arcm.com> wrote:
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> On 26 Mar 2008 at 14:28, Josiah Allen wrote:
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>  > 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.
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>  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.
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>  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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Ah, so Tom fixed that.

I do now remember not being able to leave a region due to incoming
forces, but it's been years since it happened to me.  I think if you
have enough hours you can get away.

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