10JUN11 - Blockade Fix, Patchnotes

you could also tell everyone ur strategy ;)

Sandbox: you could do whatever you like mate... as long as you're happy to receive the consequences... ^^

Yes Sun. All caravans are equal (targets) in the eyes of Illy's resident blockaders.

HonoredMule wrote: I'm glad to see blockade getting some love--especially where it is a less committed/more greedy form of hostility that ought to play a bigger role in conflicts and opportunistic behavior alike.  However, some thoughts: I would have preferred to see blockading have a low but stacking chance of interception based on the number of town-adjacent tiles that could be occupied (i.e. 75%/num tiles per tile).  For example, if there were only 5 such tiles and 2 were occupied, there a caravan would roll a 100-sided die and the first 15% (1-15) means capture by the first blockade,  the next 15% (16-30) means capture by the second blockade, and the remainder (31+) means escape.  A city surrounded by the maximum possible number of blockades would give caravans a 100%-x(75%/x) = 25% chance of escape, assuming no modifiers (caravan research would apply to the base number of 75%, which itself might actually more appropriately start around 90%).

I like the idea here, but - as Createure has correctly surmised - it'll be almost entirely rendered superfluous by pathfinding when it is introduced ingame - at which point the blockading army in the direction of travel will be the one that is "tested" for interception.

Regards,

SC