Why are my troops so hungry? Suck it up!

General
#1

Hi all, glad the forums are back :slight_smile:

So one problem that has led to some dumb newbie mistakes (by me) so far is figuring out how I can feed my ungrateful troops before they let me send them to their deaths in the mountains. I mean, I already gave them tree branches for weapons and no armor, and now they want food? Pathetic.

Anyway, I have an army sitting in a PC next to a mountain. The army has zero food and is unfed, but the PC has plenty of food to feed the army in its stores. My question is: Can I turn this situation into a march into the mountains on this turn? If I 340-TrPo2Ar and then move the army into the mountain, will that succeed? Or do I need to wait a turn and let my ungrateful orcish slobs eat their maggoty bread, then move into the mountain next turn?

Thanks
Michael

#2

You can TrPo2Ar and MovArmy in the same turn. Remember to have 1 extra food for it to work. 1000 HI needs 1001 food to be fed.

#3

If the army is small enough for the PC to feed (check the da rules) then the army will fed for movement without a TrPo2Ar order and you can go up into the mountain.

When you say your army is unfed, is that JOverseer telling you that.

You can toggle fed/unfed status on the army if you think it will be fed by the PC.

Dean

#4

It needs at least 1 food in it’s baggage train to move as “fed”. So if the PC will feed it, it won’t move “fed” with 0 food. Always leave food at 3426 to 770 1 food armies to move “fed”, for example…

Brad

#5

true there must be an actual food, at least one sandwich, to move fed.

So, if the PC will actually feed the army, 315 for 1 food, and force march off fed!

Dean

#6

Thanks all!