Drop in battle mechanics - how do they work?

[jimmy44]

I wondering if one of you kind souls could help me with something

I have started a campaign with drop in battles enabled. What I noticed is at the start of the campaign I got a string of requests to join other peoples campaign battles which I did and thoroughly enjoyed. However I had no one jump in my own campaign battles, or anytrhing indicating that the computer was at least trying to find someone. I just got AI battles as normal.

Do you have to have certain settings to enable this or request a drop in manually somehow, or does it do it automatically?

Also, how do you know that someone is about to drop into your battle? I have had dozens of battles but no indication that the game is trying to find me a drop in partner. Its really frustrasting because i see no point enabling drop in's if you never get them.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[daniu]

What I noticed is at the start of the campaign I got a string of requests to join other peoples campaign battles which I did and thoroughly enjoyed.

You nearly cost me Vienna, damn you!

However I had no one jump in my own campaign battles, or anytrhing indicating that the computer was at least trying to find someone. [...]
Also, how do you know that someone is about to drop into your battle?

When a battle is about to start and the "attack/autoresolve/withdraw" options are shown, there is an additional button "find drop-in for this battle".
This is only available if the battle is nearly balanced though (can't remember whether it's not present at all or greyed out if it's not an option).
I tend to have drop-ins for mid-sized battles mostly.

So, even if you have activated drop-in for your campaign, you have to actively select it per battle; don't worry, I don't think you'll miss it if it's there.

[jimmy44]

You nearly cost me Vienna, damn you!

When a battle is about to start and the "attack/autoresolve/withdraw" options are shown, there is an additional button "find drop-in for this battle".
This is only available if the battle is nearly balanced though (can't remember whether it's not present at all or greyed out if it's not an option).
I tend to have drop-ins for mid-sized battles mostly.

So, even if you have activated drop-in for your campaign, you have to actively select it per battle; don't worry, I don't think you'll miss it if it's there.

Thanks daniu! Wow didn't realise i was fighting over such a rich prize. I would have brought out my secret weapon if I had known that!

Thanks for the tip. I don't think I noticed a drop in battle button, but then again I wasn't expecting to see one there.

Hopefully see you again on the battlefield.

Cheers