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Announce News Post #137

Division behavior change

Written by: Varian the Celestine
Date: Sunday, March 21st, 2004
Addressed to: Everyone


Troops will now be unable to attack an enemy division that's already
being engaged by a third division. In other words, combat between troop
divisions will now involve only two divisions at a time. The change was
made simply because the code that handles division vs. division combat
was balanced for two divisions only. When a division got double teamed
by two or more other divisions, it ended up at a huge disadvantage.

Earlier today, several divisions of Spinesreach troops were used in this
way to kill a large number of troops belonging to the Deepwater
Alliance. As it happens, a similar number of Spinesreach's troops were
wiped out in exactly the same manner right after Spinesreach became
involved in the war. So they're about even. I don't consider this an
abuse or even a bug as using numeric superiority is a fairly sensible
tactic - but it was clearly an imbalance that needed to be fixed.

-Varian

Penned by my hand on the 5th of Lleian, in the year 124 MA.


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