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• Only one army can attack at a time. Any number of armies can defend. If you want to all attack at once, you must merge your armies into one and attack with that. Otherwise, they will attack one after the other, drastically weakening your offense and most likely wasting every soldier you send into battle. Also, armies will move at the speed of their slowest unit.
• Defending armies get a defense bonus from terrain, as well as the city, as long as it belongs to their country. Forests 25%, Swamps/Hills 50%, Mountains 75%. The maximum defense bonus is 200% with all the city upgrades on a mountain. Siege engines can reduce city defense bonuses, but not natural ones.
• There's a little counter on the bottom right of the movement UI that shows how many squares you can move. You can no longer move when it equals 0 or less. You can move into terrain that costs more than you have left as long as you're still above 0.
• Armies are exponentially more powerful the more units they have over the other army, because it allows them to deal more damage at once, weakening the other army on their next turn.

Quote from: Squeegy on February 25, 2015, 11:49:52 pm

Yes, as per the Knight in Chess.

You mean the bishop, right? Knights move and attack in an 'L'.

So I'm looking through knacks and I've noticed a distinct lack of crossbow and gun knacks.

Also, I found this in Spear knacks:

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Handling the Situation
Requirements: Specialization: Spear VI
It’s occasionally necessary to get a grip on yourself to avoid being shafted. When blocking an attack with your spear, you may add your spear’s damage dice to your attack dice pool. You may not carry over damage bonuses. (ex. “+4”)

First of all, how do you block with a weapon? The section on blocking (p.123) only mentions blocking with a shield or buckler. Secondly, why would an increase in the attack dice pool matter when on defence?

If the target has a shield and rolled higher than the attacker’s roll to hit, the blow is blocked. If the difference between the target’s roll and the attacker’s roll is at least equal to the shield’s Counter-Attack Rating, they may counter-attack. If the target has a buckler, they may not block ranged attacks . The target can also choose to try and block with their weapon, as long as it is a melee attack, in which case they roll with downgraded attack dice to block the attack.