Do you not have a doc viewer? The docs can be converted to PDF quite easily.
Still, lots of good stuff there!
I wish it were that rational but I'm afraid that there is no logic whatsoever to the game's area movement. A force will defend a province regardless of what direction the enemy comes from even if it is moving in the opposite direction (to the north, for example) away from a hostile invasion (from the south, say); assuming that it wins the battle it is able to continue it's march from the point it was at before the battle so if it only had two more days to go to reach the target province to the north then that is all it takes to get there. Obviously then it did not fight the battle in the South as you seem to think ('somewhere in between the two provinces') but in the north where the defender is located but, if that is the case, how did the invader from the south get to the north of the area instantaneously. Conversely, if the battle was fought around the southern border of the province (which you believe to be the case) then how did the defender in the north of the province instantaneously get back to the South to fight the battle and then just as instantaneously return to the north to resume its march from the point that it was at before it fought the battle. The game assumes that there is distance involved in movement as it calculates the amount of time to march from one province to the next depending on the terrain, the size of provinces etc. but then takes all sorts of liberties with distance and time by allowing teleportation according to the circumstances. It would be much better to ditch the area movement and replace it with hexes or otherwise precisley located geographical movement to solve these serious issues.
