A few more Stratagems

Hi everyone, my first post here so be gentle

Here is a list of few more stratagems I thought they might enrich the available palette of tactics.

A)Retaliate. A defending army when attacked instead of fighting they launch a counter attack to the attacker's town. If they are fast enough they might get there before the attackers force returns. This stratagem is useful when you have an army with better attacking values than defending. A check box in the page of each army would be sufficient to define the defending/retaliation attribute

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B)Ambush... The same as occupy territory but the army does not appear on the map. Especially useful for destroying unsuspecting caravans. Army returns to base after any encounter

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C)Intercept...This will give a standing army (defending) the ability to block a moving army (attacking) when it comes into a sufficient range. The winning army returns to base after the battle.

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D)Patrol... the army disappears from a single location and starts patrolling an area with a radius of 3 squares from their original position. A camp icon signifies the centre of the perimeter on the map. Scouting the exact force of a patrolling power (by sending scouts on the camp icon) is difficult. While patrolling, army cannot actively attack or be attacked by another player but...there is a fair chance that it will reinforce yours or your allies’ troops in any military encounter within the patrolling area. (An idea of the chance of appearing would be 40% for your armies and 20% for your allies' armies). It will be a strategic tool for building alliance defences in a dense populated area or launching collective attacks (some restrictions should be placed in this case). Army returns to base after taking part in any encounter

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E)Guerilla tactics... A small force defending a town might want to enter a guerilla tactics defence mode for a period of time. Two things change in combat rules, when an army assumes this mode of defence.

 1) Regardless of composition and strength the defending army will suffer 50% losses and the attackers whilst winning the battle they suffer a 20% loss. So an army with 200 troops attacking a town guarded by 20 people will loose 40 troops and the defending army will remain with 10 troops alive.

 2) There is a decent chance that guerilla tactics will fail depending on the balance of clashing armies. In the example the attacking force was 10 times more than the defending so there is a 10% of failure. If the defending army was just 4 troops this chance would go up to 50%

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That' s all for the time being, feel free to comment

Sok

(Sokrates in game)