Question about special attacks

[gkmetty]

While reviewing the kingdom profiles to make a selection for a new game I noticed that many of the military kingdoms have special attacks.  Some of these attacks have conditions, a certain level leader or brigade type must be present or the battle must be in a certain terrain type.

I believe I understand that the attack will revert to a standard attack (Tactic 2) if the conditions for the attack are not met at the time of declaration, ie a summon death spell has take out the requisite brigade type, or a requisite leader type goes missing due to kill leader spell.

How would this affect a special attack on the opposing side.  For example, kingdom A and kingdom B are opposed to each other in a battle. Kingdom A uses a special attack that requires a minimum level leader but the leader is stunned so the attack reverts to a standard attack.  Kingdom B uses a special attack that only works if Kingdom A attacks on a tactic 2 or lower.  Which tactic is used for this comparison, the original tactic submitted by Kingdom A or the default tactic 2?

Thanks,

[Atuan]

The default tactic 2 should be the result even though they attempted a different attack. So Kingdom B should have the advantage as they are able to use their special attack but kingdom A is not.

[VballMichael]

Agreed that makes the most sense. But does the program look at entered order or what really happened?

[Atuan]

Its my experience from other orders. IE Wizard transfers with Rings etc that it looks at what really happened and adjusts from there rather than what the orders were. Note I dont have experience in this specific instance.