The type 2 attack in TPR actually works (DID work...)

[The Dark Lord]

As you know, the type 2 attack doesn't work if there isn't another attack of the same player.
Today I heard of a friend of mine that it actually worked.

Some years ago I borrowed him my cd of TPR, and a week ago he said to me he needed some help with mission 4 TSK (that was a surprise, I didn't know he still plays it). Today he came to me so I quickly skipped mission 1 and 2 and passed mission 3. But he said: ''Huh? I started with other troops in mission 3'' So it was clear he hadn't patched his game. Then we came in mission 4, and he didn't recognise this mission at all. He described a mission where you start with 3 catapults and some axe fighters, and there is a brown village in the south which you have to protect: mission 4 TPR.
Only then I remembered the missions were mixed up. I asked him if the enemy did destroy his buildings. Yes, he said.

Conclusion: the attacks worked once. One of the patches must have broken it.

This is a part of an email I once sent to Litude, when we were discussing the broken TPR attacks:

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Well I can remember that they attacked me in mission 4... That was a very long time ago, and I lost every time because of the attacks. That was the reason I didn't play KaM for years. And then, suddenly, I installed it again and played through some missions... I won mission 4 very easily, because there weren't any attacks at all... Very strange.
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I must have patched my game...

[Merchator]

Well, that's wired
But why it worked before, and now don't?
Anyway, good find!

[Litude]

Wow great patching once again Joymania 8) No seriously, I think I need to do some checking on this one. You are using version 1.54 REL UC right?

[Litude]

What I'm still wondering and what you did not state directly is whether the enemies attacked your brown ally or only you. Done some testing and the teams seem to find my ally completely uninteresting.

[Tomo2008]

I remember the last time I played M4, my Brown ally started with 24 Axemen at the bridging point, and the Green enemy attacked the brown, and destroyed buildings as awsell. Will play it again sometime, because I'm sure when they did destroy my Brown ally, and I lost...

Will investigate =]

[Tomo2008]

Oh yeah! sorry about the double post but the enemy definetly attacked on this map, because I definetly remember them destroying my Storehouse in the middle of the map before going for my allies.

[kuba11100]

Look at the date of the post...
After 2 years now it's known that type 2 attack needs a fake attack to make it work. It seems that you have SR3 (in 4 TPR ally has soldiers), which includes the fix.

[Tomo2008]

Yeah normally I would agree, but I stopped playing this game for a while, and when I saw them attacking, this was way before the patches Like when I played before.

Probably quite a while before this post was even made lol

[kuba11100]

According to changelog type 2 attack is broken since 1.56.

[Tomo2008]

Hmmm, not sure about the patches, but one of the English versions I have does have attacks in. When I get my proper PC back, I will have a look (It has other versions of KaM on it)