Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Joseignacio

We have been always playing like we can swap units in the lan movement phase when wiffing.

Maybe it's not possible, but I believe it is, and the game doesn't let you.

In this case, the stack with the German 5/3 inf and other inf wouldn't swap with the one with the 9/5 Mech (and others).

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ORIGINAL: FreddaH

I noticed this as well. As far as I can recall, overstacking should be allowed during a phase, and only result in unit destruction at the end of a phase, and thus swapping land units should be allowed. Am I wrong in this?

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ORIGINAL: JLPOWELL

In many cases you can 'work around' this issue. (I know that this is not optimal...)

The existing UI will permit the following:

Swapping from Hex A to B if C is available C needs to be adjacent to either A or B and C must have 'space'

There are various combinations but the following example illustrates the principal.

Unit 1 & 2 are in Hex A Unit 3 & 4 are in Hex B To say you want to swap unit 2 with unit 3

Move unit 1 to hex C (any adjacent hex with space)
Move unit 3 to Hex A
Move unit 2 to Hex B
Select Unit 1 and choose 'undo' returning it to Hex A

Note this works even if moving unit 1 into hex C disorganizes a unit or puts it out of supply.

Steve indicates this will be tricky to code, but my expectation based on all the other tricky code he has successfully implemented is that this will get done once it hits the 'top of the pile'.

Fortunately this is not a really common situation (certainly not rare however), and this workaround is going to work in nearly every instance/ I won't work if there are no hexes nearby & you also need to be careful as you cannot always undo (if there has been an overrun or some HQ moves).

One of the greatest advantages MWIF has over the board game is that the rules are 'enforced' automatically. in this case its a bit is a bit constraining, but in most cases it is great not to have to stop and figure out if a move is 'legal' and what exactly is the supply situation for nearby units when a unit moves changing the path. I can recall impulses grinding to a halt for nearly an hour to hash out a rules issue when playing the board game....

-Remember - 'Have Fun' is the most important 'rule'.

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[..] Stacking applies at the end of each step and after each retreat and advance after combat. You cannot voluntarily overstack then [..]

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ORIGINAL: Dabrion

RAW 2.3.1:

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[..] Stacking applies at the end of each step and after each retreat and advance after combat. You cannot voluntarily overstack then [..]

Why not let the player do what he wants during the step. When end of step is pressed, or at the relevant points during the combat forms, do the stacking limit check. In case of overstacked hexes, indicate them in a popup and let the user correct the situation by movement. You would need an indicator for incorrectable constellations, something like: sum( stacking(hex) for hex in adjacent ) >= sum( stacking_max(hex) for hex in adjacent )

You only have to check hexes occupied by units. Actually only hexes occupied by units that have seen action this step. So that it will roughly scale with the average activity limits or the occupied hexes in the worst case.

The workaround using an adjacent hex not at capacity has the flaw that you would have to calculate the movement cost using path the unit would have taken for the swap, the shortest path (if not using explicate movement). Else some units may not be able to make it in bad weather and/or terrain.
Also by RAW 11.11.1 a unit can only move once in each land movement step, but that could be relaxed for usability sake here.