Retreats and Wars?

[Starsong]

A faction in one of my home systems is going into Retreat and another pair is in a war. Since wars stop normal influence changes, will this interfere with stopping the retreat?

 

[Ian Doncaster]

The influence locked up in the war won't be available to the retreating faction. Whether this makes it "very marginally harder" or "completely impossible" to stop the retreat really depends on how much influence is locked in the war - if you've got two factions fighting on 10% each, no big deal ... if they're fighting on 47% each you've no chance.

 

[Starsong]

The influence locked up in the war won't be available to the retreating faction. Whether this makes it "very marginally harder" or "completely impossible" to stop the retreat really depends on how much influence is locked in the war - if you've got two factions fighting on 10% each, no big deal ... if they're fighting on 47% each you've no chance.

There’s about 40% influence locked up in total between the two wars going on in the system... well, here goes nothing.