This means that once an enemy moves into one of the six neighboring tiles, it is forced to halt and its movement phase ends (only enemies with the rare skirmisher ability ignore this).īecause of ZOC, an enemy may not slip between two units which are aligned on a north-south or diagonal line and have exactly 1 or 2 hexes between them. He cannot attack but most likely will close into your striking range.Įvery unit of level 1 or higher maintains a zone of control (ZOC) covering all 6 neighboring hexes. So try to end your move out of striking range of the enemy army.
When your armies meet, you may want to try to be the first to attack. Thus you can check that your near death unit, which is behind, indeed cannot be attacked as the enemy cannot move close to it. This takes your zone of control into account. In the Action menu, you can select "Show Enemy Moves" to highlight all possible hexes your adversary can actually move to.
#BATTLE FOR WESNOTH STRATEGY HOW TO#
The next section about zone of control (ZOC) shows how to restrict the enemy's moves. No enemy can attack them if enemies cannot even come near them. How do you guard wounded units? They are best guarded by being out of the adversary's reach. Even if you can recruit a replacement, it is most often far away from the battle front. Recruiting a replacement may be impossible because the leader is not in its keep or because funds are running low. Further, by sending it to its sure death, its gathered experience points (XP) are lost. During attack and counterattack, it most often will perish. This is for practical reasons: a heavily wounded unit cannot hold back or kill the enemy. Once a unit loses more than half of its hit points (HP), you should seriously consider retreating it to safety and either station it in a village for healing or give him to the care of a healer (like Elvish Shamans or White Mages). 3 Shield with your zone of control (ZOC)ĭo not send wounded units to a sure death.
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