defend ¶

defend who
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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.

To remove a unit from the defend list, set it’s attitude to neutral or default.

To remove all units from the defend list (to clear the list), use the defend command with no arguments.

See Declared attitudes for more information about declared attitudes.

Related orders: default neutral hostile