does the tutorial lie?

[mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca]

I have not specifically tried the case you're talking about, but a couple
thoughts: First of all, the tutorial probably *does* lie.  So does most of
the rest of the documentation.  I've written things that the documentation
said would work, and had them not work, quite often.  You have to solve
these things by experiment, and preferably report it so the documentation
and/or code can be fixed.

On your specific problem, I imagine that it's probably a zone of control
issue.  I've faced something similar in one of my projects.  Units exert a
zone of control that by default covers their entire hex, and units from
enemy sides cannot enter that zone without attacking and defeating the
controlling unit.  Look up zone of control (ZOC) in the manual, and try
changing the zoc-range table to -1 for rubble piles versus all units.
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Matthew Skala
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