Land Stealing

[WackyJacky]

If I am attacking a target af1 and they are also af1 on another target will the land I steal include the land they take from their attack?

[LAFiN]

No. Those acres don't appear until after all battles are fought, at least that has been my understanding all along.

[AndyM]

I would imagine that the land is updated after the battle phase of the tick has completed, so you won't receive the extra land that the person you're attacking gets.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong though!

[f0xx]

Actually, I believe the answer to that question is random.

It depends on the order the battle reports come.

[Azzer]

As f0xx says, it's down to the order that the battles take place, which are intentionally randomised. If you are attacking somebody that is attacking you... and the battle happens to make your attack occur first, and you steal land - then their attack on you happens, they can steal from your "new" land count. But the order in which the battles occur could be reversed. There's no way to predict what order battles will happen in (this is, as I say, an intentional design).

[Alcibiades]

That doesn't work with bribed units tho does it? If i were out attacking and bribing atf1 on say an SO with a bunch of traps, and i had inc atf1, could those traps i bribe technically be used in my own defence if the battle randomizer set my bribing attack first, then my inc?

Or are bribed units held out off the fray until the next BR? (that was how i understood it to work)

[Azzer]

Units are different - all units are calculated in a "pre-battle routine" - all mobs due to be involved in combat for that tick go through a routine that adds up all total defenders, and total attackers, at each target at each ETA, and stores them all in a "combat ready table".

Once that is done for all combats due to happen, then the actual combats are processed.

So changes to your units (from bribing), do not count in to a combat that happens same tick, since all units have already been "added up" in preperation for the battles.

[Alcibiades]

Ah alrighty then.