Attacking and defending regions
Attacking a hostile region
Note : You can only capture enemy regions if your division has at least one ground unit. A division made up of only air units won't be able to take over an enemy region.

If you want to attack a hostile region, you just need to move one of your divisions into it. The easiest way is by simply rightclicking the region with the division on the globe, allowing you to move the deployed division into any neighbouring region :



And as soon as you move that division into one of those hostile regions (possible targets are marked red and traced by a red arrow), the battle preparation screen will show up that let's you decided how to commence this battle :



On the left you can see your division (attacker), and if you've got an agent deployed to the region you attacked with division data, it'll be displayed on the right (defender). If not you won't get any information on the enemy you're going to encounter in this region.

This is a mandatory screen, so you must select from one of the actions in the center of this screen :
Simulate
This will do an internal simulation of the battle that usually only takes a few seconds (if at all), and you're directly presented with the result of the battle. Though this is a lot faster than fighting it out by yourself, it also leaves all strategic choices to the AI, often resulting in higher losses than necessary.

Battle it out
Selecting this option will take you to the manual battle field (one of the bigges new features of "Phase 2"), check out th corresponding manual page for more information on this new funtionality.

Cancel
Select this one if you made a mistake or for whatever reason want to cancel the attack. But note that the division will be locked for the rest of the turn if you cancel an attack.

If you have chosen to either simulate the battle or fight it out by yourself you'll be presented with the resultscreen afterwards :



Depending on wether you won or lost the result looks different, and winning the fight will move your division into the enemy region, taking it over for you (if it's got at least one ground unit left) and also capturing some credits from the enemy nation.
Defending your own regions
Note : To defend your region it's NOT necessary to have a division assigned to it. If there's no division deployed and the region is attacked, a local defense force will fight against the enemy.

Defending your regions will be done automatically. As soon as one of your regions is attacked upon ending your turn you'll be presented with a slight variation of the battle preparation screen :



You now got the same options as when attacking an enemy region, except for "cancel" which is obviously missing as you must defend your region. Once again choose either to simulate the whole battle or try to defend the region yourself. After the battle is finished you'll be also presented with a result screen :



Again this looks different on wether you've defeated the attackers or got overwhelmed. If you lost the battle, then the enemy will move into your region and take it over.