Join Battle fleet order is ambiguous

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Join Battle fleet order is ambiguous

Post Brend » Sun Dec 25, 2016 10:36 pm
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The Military Fleet order of "Join Battle" is ambiguous — and now it is unclear how the order should work.


Normal Engages have a nice round 0 at the start of the battle: the sequence for those orders is:
  • (:turn) x-1: Engage order given
  • (:turn) x+0: Round 0 (defensive formation only)
  • (:turn) x+1: Round 1 (first full round, with -2 on attacks)
  • (:turn) x+2: Round 2 (full round)

It is currently not clear how exactly new fleets should join an ongoing battle, due to a lack of clear "Round 0" during which the newly arriving fleet selects their defensive formation.

I invite those that care about such minute details of the rules to think on this and post their opinion on how Join Battle should be handled here. (Read as: I'll probably post something, but have no clue at the moment.)

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