Hmm. Something that might be relevant for army stuff, Fantastic and I have been having a hell of a time testing this bug: http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=10312 So far it seems that a civ only ever seems capable of sending a single army out at one time, which would contribute to the generally inconsistent nature of a hostile civ's response time. Problem is this thing is a giant pain in the ass to confirm, only disprove via seeing a confirmed case of a civ sending out more than one army at the same time, in the current version.Which so far I haven't seen.