Battle defender and attack

[BrokenBuck]

For the love of god please change the way the defender and attacker for battles is decided, I can't stand that the defender of the battle is the defender in the war even if they're the one that actually initiated the battle. If you declare war on somebody and attack them you can literally never be the defender of any battle in that entire war even if you were attacked, it's so stupid it's actually unreal.

[plochol]

It's logical actually, even if You're the aggressor and You're stationed in a province that's being attacked by the defenders then You're the defender in a battle.

[BrokenBuck]

No you aren't, that's what I just said, even if you're idle in a province that gets attacked as long as you're the aggressor in the war you're the aggressor in the battle. unless it's some mod I have that's doing it, but that would be absurd. I suppose I'll run a test to see, but yeah in all of my observations ever the attacker of the battle is always 100% no matter the circumstances guaranteed to be the aggressor of the war

[BrokenBuck]

Yeah so I ran tests to isolate the mod variable, and surprise surprise I was right, crazy how that works. I have never, over dozens of hours of gameplay, modding, and observation witnessed a single battle where the aggressor of the battle wasn't the aggressor of the war regardless of who actually initiated the battle.

[plochol]

Oh, that's interesting, should be fixed then, so if You're in offensive war You can't take defensive stance and lure AI into attacking You so You can strike back with advantage, well, I didn't pay that much attention, good catch ;]

[RobDeLaMorte]

Oh that's why I've been getting the total ♥♥♥♥ kicked out of me then? -3-

I wondered why I had all these defensive buildings and still got ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ MELTED after declaring a war and luring their forces back to my fort. Bah.

[plochol]

Originally posted by RobDeLaMorte:

Oh that's why I've been getting the total ♥♥♥♥ kicked out of me then? -3-

I wondered why I had all these defensive buildings and still got ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ MELTED after declaring a war and luring their forces back to my fort. Bah.

Not, sure but it's likely, it doesn't work here like in PDX games, Walls and Castle gives You siege defense so it takes longer to occupy, there are some buildings that gives Your units more defense in province, but I can't say how much difference does it make.

[RobDeLaMorte]

Originally posted by plochol:

Not, sure but it's likely, it doesn't work here like in PDX games, Walls and Castle gives You siege defense so it takes longer to occupy, there are some buildings that gives Your units more defense in province, but I can't say how much difference does it make.

Dang. My usual Paradox/Age of Empires 2 strategies of "wall up and tech and let them bleed their resources on me" don't work too well in this game I guess. xD

Could try setting the AI super aggressive, but they tend to spread out and ignore me until they're even stronger then. Hmm...