defend

Olympia: The Age of Gods PBEM (Oct 4 2000)

## `defend`

      defend who
      * time: 0 days
      * priority: 0

Declare a unit or player to have attitude `defend` towards another unit, nation, or player who. When a unit is attacked, other units which have `defend` attitude to the unit will join the combat and aid with defense.

To declare an attitude toward a nation, use the nation's name (or any non-ambiguous first part of the name) in the command:

      defend Mandor

Case is ignored.

When a combat occurs, the attitude of the top-most noble in each stack in the location is checked. If any unit is declared `defend` to the victim of the attack, the unit's stack will join the combat on the victim's side.

who may be either a unit id or a nation name.

See Declared attitudes for more information about declared attitudes.

Related orders: default neutral hostile