Timskorn Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 Do surprise contacts take into consideration entrenchment level? Is there a special rule when damage is calculated? I only ask because it seems that defending units can take more damage in a surprise contact, even if their entrenchment level is high. In a game right now my Corp. ran into a level 4 entrenched Army and dealt 3 points of damage, whereas subsequent attacks by my other units barely did 1 point. Or was it just a lucky hit on the surprise contact? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terif Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 Surprise contact changes the roles of attacker and defender - so if a corps rans into one of your entrenched armies, then your army attacks the corps (and gets an additional readiness bonus since it surprises the corps). This means entrenchment or terrain of the army doesn´t matter as it is now the attacker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timskorn Posted August 3, 2007 Author Share Posted August 3, 2007 Ah ok, that explains it then. Good to know, sounds like something that could be used for an advantage at times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jon_j_rambo Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 Yeah, but how could you use, becaues it's surprise, LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timskorn Posted August 3, 2007 Author Share Posted August 3, 2007 Not necessarily. Like when I hit Moscow against you in my last turn I knew you'd have a unit there. If, for example, I knew you didn't have any AT tech I would send my armor there to do the surprise contact, making your defender attack involuntarily against a better unit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terif Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 That doesn´t work - in a surprise contact the former defender that surprises the moving unit attacks only if it will have the advantage and has the better expected losses. So if you send a tank against a corps without AT in Moskov to force a surprise contact, then the corps will not attack the tank since it has to expect to suffer more damage than the tank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timskorn Posted August 3, 2007 Author Share Posted August 3, 2007 Oh really? That's good then. HC thought of everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jon_j_rambo Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 That's why Terif is Yodl. Yodl = Terif + Yoda + Jodl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mike Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 Looks more like it should be Todl.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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