Just thought you should all know, the rule that says troops attacking a pop center need to engage any enemy troops outside the pop center before attacking no longer applies. My 1FO was defending outside my capital, and the 1GI was able to saunter past them and take it without so much as a by your leave.
(10-12-2022, 12:22 PM)Eregnon Wrote: Just thought you should all know, the rule that says troops attacking a pop center need to engage any enemy troops outside the pop center before attacking no longer applies. My 1FO was defending outside my capital, and the 1GI was able to saunter past them and take it without so much as a by your leave.
Was your group invisible at the time? Ambushing and invisible groups don't block the attack on the pop center.
The Forgotten kingdom gets a Glyph of Concealment (hidden capital) which makes all of your groups at that location invisible regardless of size. Actually, it's the only way that an army-group size group may become invisible.
Your invisible group must be given the order to attack the foreign group to defend a hidden pop center. If you just sat there on a defend 120 order, your group didn't do anything to protect your hidden pop center.
It's amazing how I've been playing this game for so long and I still get surprised by things I didn't know! It's what I love about the game. Though I'm glad this wasn't my capital, because I would have totally defended and not expected to be bypassed.
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