MPP island specific??

[Delphi456]

Mayans and Babs have MPP. I declare against Mayans but don't attack during my turn. Off on an island, Mayan Cav comes onto my land and attacks my infantry, which holds. So I figured since the Mayans 'drew first blood', it shouldn't trigger the MPP. So I pillage their tile on the mainland, but it kicks in the MPP with the Babs. What gives??

 

[Puppeteer]

MPP means they declare if you attack inside their territory. You can skirmish all you want outside their borders without triggering their MPP, but you knock over a vase inside their borders and the MPPs trigger.

I don't think it matters who is the aggressor, but even if it did you declared war in the first place so you started the hostilities.

 

[Lanzelot]

What about "neutral" territory (i.e. a third party's territory or no-man's land)?
I know that I can attack their units inside my territory without triggering the MPP, and an attack (or pillage) inside their territory will trigger the MPP. But not sure about neutral territory. Has anybody tested this?

 

[CKS]

It is fine to attack in neutral territory.

Where I get caught is zone of control auto-attacks. If you have units with ZOC on the border and one of their units passes by, the ZOC attack happens inside their territory, even though your unit doesn't go there, and that triggers the MPP. I think, though I'm not sure, that defensive bombardment on a unit attacking from their territory will also trigger the MPP.

 

[Lanzelot]

Wow, what "subtle traps"...

 

[Delphi456]

So a lone warrior in a barricade located on the border could ZOC a passing mech inf and start WW3. Scary.