0000682: COMBAT AGRESSIVE not with "every combat involving your faction"

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0000682	Eressea	General	public	2005-08-09 16:43	2006-04-16 23:44

Reporter	khadar	Assigned To	Enno
Priority	normal	Severity	text	Reproducibility	always
Status	closed	Resolution	fixed

Summary	0000682: COMBAT AGRESSIVE not with "every combat involving your faction"
Description	Both in the english and the german rules this isn't very clear... and that cost me dearly (again) this turn. "COMBAT AGGRESSIVE: The unit will take the front row in every combat involving its faction and it will fight to the death. This is reasonable for cannon fodder." The german rules state the same thing. It just does not apply to -every- combat involving its faction. I had two units with COMBAT AGRESSIVE set that didn't join the rest of the faction's units in a fight because they didn't specifically have the order ATTACK set, while the other units did, and my opponent didn't attack me in that turn. While it says under "Taking sides: resolving allegiances" that attackers are all all units who had the order ATTACK against one or more units of the defenders, the information under COMBAT AGRESSIVE is confusing. I understand that there most likely will not be a rerun because of this, but this is the second time in a couple of weeks that a bunch of my men just stand there because the rules are unclear... don't mean to nag, it just sucks :(
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Faction	caeL
Game
Report	435

Enno 2005-08-20 17:27 administrator ~0001456	Thanks, this (and the desciption of COMBAT NOT) was really not well-written. I've changed the description. Other units will not join a battle by themselves just beacuse one of your units gives an ATTACK order - you need to give one for each unit. There are three reasons for a unit to joing battle: An ATTACK order for the unit Being attacked by someone else Helping an ally, when you have a status not equal to COMBAT NOT or COMBAT FLEE.

khadar 2005-08-20 18:08 reporter ~0001459	I'd like to amend to that: Helping an ally who is attacked (but does not attack the opponent himself), when you have a status not equal to COMBAT NOT or COMBAT FLEE. I'm actually not sure about the part in parentheses, but from what I experienced a couple of weeks ago if your ally attacks and his opponent doesn't, you don't join in either.

Enno 2005-09-08 19:09 administrator ~0001483	That's correct. The reasoning is that your ally can easily tell you that he's attacking, and you've got the freedom to decide whether you want to attack or not.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2005-08-09 16:43	khadar	New Issue
2005-08-09 16:43	khadar	Partei/Faction	=> caeL
2005-08-09 16:43	khadar	Report No.	=> 435
2005-08-20 17:27	Enno	Status	new => resolved
2005-08-20 17:27	Enno	Resolution	open => fixed
2005-08-20 17:27	Enno	Assigned To	=> Enno
2005-08-20 17:27	Enno	Note Added: 0001456
2005-08-20 18:08	khadar	Status	resolved => feedback
2005-08-20 18:08	khadar	Resolution	fixed => reopened
2005-08-20 18:08	khadar	Note Added: 0001459
2005-09-08 19:09	Enno	Status	feedback => resolved
2005-09-08 19:09	Enno	Resolution	reopened => fixed
2005-09-08 19:09	Enno	Note Added: 0001483
2006-04-16 23:44	Enno	Status	resolved => closed