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Advanced Tactics 5: Interception was made by Witch-Doctor.
This is guide on what intercepts are and how to use them.
So what is an intercept? An intercept is when your units will follow the enemy units. Here are some criteria for your units to intercept.
1) Your unit cannot be the "first" attack on an enemy stack.
1a: Say you hit a stack with 1 inf first move, and then hit it with 5 inf the second move. The 1 inf CANNOT intercept MOST OF THE TIME, but the 5 inf CAN intercept if the following criteria is met. Do not rely on the "first" attack to intercept since it is INCREDIBLY inconsistent. Rely on your second and consecutive attacks to intercept.
2) The absolute distance between where your enemy last put his unit is within range of your unit that CAN intercept.
2a: This means that even if the enemy moves over water or un-passable areas, as long as where the enemy unit ends up is within range of your INTERCEPT unit, the intercept will happen.
Note: This only happens to enemy stacks in the open. As far as I know, it is impossible to intercept units coming out of a city since your unit will just end up hitting the city every time.
Note2: You can intercept with every unit type, ground, air, naval.
Note3: This is much less consistent when trying to intercept air units.
This sounds super complicated, but it's actually very easy to do. In fact, many have done it on accident and seen their units teleport. THIS ISNT A BUG, IT'S A FEATURE OF THE TB MECHANIC.
The best way to understand something is to see it in action.
Note the following scenario:
I'm ukr and turk has me forked between kiev and moscow. If you don't know what forking is, it's a chess term that means the enemy is threatening two or more valuable pieces or in this case locations. Moscow and kiev are both very important to me as ukr and I won't know where turk will attack. However, using intercepts, I won't have to know since my units will automatically follow to wherever the enemy sends.
Watch as I perform the intercept:
http://i.imgur.com/tvKjxaF.mp4
Ok let me break down what happened here.
First move, I hit the enemy stack with 1 unit, and then second move I hit it with my gen stack with the rest of my unit.
The 1 unit fails to tb the 69 enemy units. So the 69 enemy units continue their attack in moscow. My second attack which was my gen stack follows and BECAUSE it is my own city, they defend. (I'm fairly sure if the intercept is made into an enemy city, my units will attack and theirs will defend).
Basically, I took the guesswork out of predicting where the enemy will hit and relying on the intercept mechanics to have my units automatically follow the enemy.
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Now some really funky shit such as "teleportation" and other effects can happen because of intercept.
http://i.imgur.com/t0vtoKA.mp4
So once again the breakdown. My first hit with the 1 inf from kiev fails to tb the transport so the transport moves to it's destination.
It's final destination is within range of my gen stack "second" hit so it follows.
Notice how it skips over water, this is the infamous "teleportation" that many people experience. In actuality it's simple intercept and tb mechanics.
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So how to avoid the dreaded intercept if you are the attacker?
Well simple, you send everything except one unit to your actual target. And the one unit can be a decoy to draw the intercept.
http://i.imgur.com/plxz9pu.mp4
So here is breakdown again.
Ukr 1 inf fails to tb the enemy unit so the enemy unit goes to their target.
Enemy split most of units to go to kiev and the remaining unit to whatever.
Your intercept follows the remaining unit and you get owned for relying on intercepts too much..
Ok that's basically it as far as intercept goes. I'm still not sure why intercepting air units can sometimes be a little weird, That is to come I guess??
Bye have a beautiful time!
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