Flanking

Hi all once again,

There is a very important element missing in the overall strategy game, the role of flanking (attacking from different directions), surrounding the enemy and similar such positional advantages.

I would suggest the following model be implemented:

1) When different army groups of one country attack from different provinces an army group belonging to an enemy country, the first group to make contact with the enemy is the primary group. The defender gets the current standard defense points against that primary group. When the defenders, being already engaged with one army group, are attacked from another army group coming from a differerent province, they should incur a 50% penalty to their defense rating against that second group. If attacked again by a third army group, a full 100% penalty should obtain against that army group.

a. If attacked simultaneously by N groups, the strongest group of N becomes the primary as above. As ntoed above, otherwise timing controls the designation (primary, secondary, tertiary). Maximum bonus I suggest is 100% if attacked by 3 or more army from different provinces.

2) This can also easily apply in naval battles -- flanking an enemy fleet should be advantageous.