>>51613621. My question is more one of geography. Picrel is the current front line. Red arrows mark my territories that are attacking one single enemy territory and what happens in those cases is clear now, after your explanation (though it was not simply from reading the rules). Yellow arrows mark enemy territories being attacked by more than one of mine, and green arrows mark my territories that are attacking more than one enemy territory. Is there any difference between the three cases? Or am I correct in thinking that the territories I've marked with a black dot do not contribute to the attack at all and would theoretically be free to do something else?
2. The problem is that forts are not useful if the attacker is much stronger than the defender, but they are also not useful if the defender is stronger than the attacker without the fort. Their use also has the cost of potentially missing out on conquest if your roll ends up being high enough. So I could set up a permanent conditional
>Defend in my territories with forts if and only if 0 < Enemy Strength - My Strength < Fort Leveland this would always provide the optimal result. There is no real decision making involved.
3. Well, yes, we have to ignore all these things when comparing two specific variables that are mutually exclusive and not affected by anything else, as is the case here. All else remaining the same, my opponent would be better served telling his allies to stay away from me and provide support, and I would be better served rushing to them to plunge myself into a multiple front war to eliminate the possibility of that +3 bonus, which is more likely than a +1. That doesn't really seem right.
5. Nothing else springs to mind right now, but I may have more questions later.
