Reinforcements?

[Rittsy]

Hello friends,

Can someone please explain to me how reinforcements are supposed to work? Right now I'm invading Greece as Rome and have two armies just outside Athens in defensive-mode. One gets attacked by Sparta but despite their being the little-yellow line connecting my two armies, the other doesn't join the battle. That's fine I guess, I still win (although not without losses; the fort's tiny and I can't see where the enemy are marching from to lay the defenses). Same turn Athens attacks the same army, they get reinforced by the Spartans I just defeated as well as another ally but mine is nowhere to be seen. Also the Athenians are able to loop around and besiege Larissa, despite their landing zone being in the red-area surrounding my other fortified army.

Is my understanding of reinforcements and zone-of-control completely wrong or is it broken for now?

[Roach]

It is at least somewhat broken. I have run into issues like these as well, but it isn't consistent enough for me to say what the problem is.

[Rittsy]

I reloaded the save with follow-AI active and realised that one of the armies was sabotaged so had no move points to join the battle. My bad...

Although I'm still not sure about the area-of-control.

[guffey]

The agent sabotage completely takes out reinforcements ability to come to aid. Its a great tool for isolating and taking out the stacks that the AI likes to put together as reinforcements, however it does play against you sometimes. If my armies are in a defensive mode, ill focus my agents on taking out enemy agents. If I am attacking, I will use my agents to isolate enemy stacks. I never send multi-stack armies against enemies without agent support, since agents are way OP.

Whenever you place 2 armies together, or are about to attack an enemy, make sure you look at all the connecting red/yellow lines. Re-position the armies if necessary to create the reinforcement lines while minimizing enemy reinforcement lines.

Personally i think that agents actions should not stop enemy reinforcements, since that becomes half the battle right now instead of fighting the armies.

[AusHaching]

Armies in forced march stance can not be reinforced (but I think they can reinforce, would have to try that though).