Ok here's the scenario. I have a sub going from A to B. Large amount of drillers and a general. My enemy has a large sub with a pirate/navy and also a king. I launched my sub and he changed course to target it. He will catch it before it makes it to outpost B. So once he captures, his pirate sub retreats with the navy to his nearest outpost. Then my captured general boards a second sub that is created as a result of the battle and takes the same route back to my enemies outpost.
I have a future pirate hire that can target his sub with my captured general therefore I can recapture my general back from that second sub created by the battle. So I now have two questions:
1. Let's say my pirate launches (targeting the sub that has yet to be created because the battle has not ensued yet). Once my pirate is enroute, my enemy changes course with his nav thus negating the battle which means that his sub with my captured general doesn't exist. Where does my pirate go if the target sub never happens after I launch?
2. Let's say the battle does happen and his pirate is retreating back to his outpost at 4x speed. Because of the nav, can he change course before it makes it back or does he have to wait? Meaning can he reaquire my newly recaptured general?
(I really hope he doesn't read the forums because this is such a specific scenario)