You can create conditional delay moves by using attack by percentage.

Here's an example game (turn 6, order of 0).
https://www.warlight.net/MultiPlayer?GameID=10466194

On turn 6, I have 10 armies on a spot after deployments, leaving me 9 to attack/delay with. Attacking with 9 is inefficient, so I want to delay by sending one army backwards before attacking with 8. However, if my opponent attacks me before I get to the delay, I'd rather attack with the whole stack and skip the delay move. So, I do an order of 6% to transfer an army backwards. 6% times 9 = .54, which rounds up to 1. If that spot is attacked, I have 8 or less to attack with. 6% times 8 = .48. which rounds down to 0, and the delay (which I no longer need) isn't executed.

Downloadable spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1f2dErwYITrVMRY1lmu2c0IfkCkAgUfTtPKnZD-d9Wu8

Important note:
In warlight, results ending in .5 round down. If you have 10 available armies to attack with you need to use 6% instead of 5%.

Edited 12/23/2016 20:35:30

Barely even understood that. Genius.

Edited 12/23/2016 04:33:07

Master Jz you just blew my mind into so many pieces right now

Like

#BindMlown

I want to leave the seasonal and punch myself in the face

This is true genius work

Also

@Clint Eastwood: go kys (kiss your self)

Edited 12/23/2016 02:59:25

That moment when I feel bad about not including attack by percentage on French Brawl :(

Nice trick! Good you shared it to make it eventually common knowledge!

Straight round was added to the game over 4 years ago and nobody's discovered it until now, that I know of. Nice! (Also back in the day, ALL games had attack by percentage mode, so it would have been even more useful then)

We shall call this the JZ maneuver.

Just... brilliant!

Wow I saw the move on turn 6 and that trick is really simple to understand and effective, very very nice thanks for discovering this. ^^

JZ Delay???
JZ Del.Opt.???

Meh, so now this is public and i have to consider my opponents using this frequently? :(

Haha yes timi :P but more competition is a good thing

WOW. This is such an incredible discovery. Thank you so much for the share!

I agree with Fizzer: we should call this the "Jz Maneuver". xP

That's an incredible trick but do we have think alone by those attacks by %? What about making a spreadsheet on how much to attack by percentage at a specific amount of armies?

feel free to create one

Timi,I think that this is job for Master Jz as she invented this strategy :D

Edited 12/23/2016 12:04:26

feel free to create one

dammmmm thats amazing!!!!

I'm going to definitely be trying that out in games :D

Good trick but all that Math is going to make it impractical.

so I have started to create a spreadsheet : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16FXDhTJ3eOAKr1yqYBEb4WnN4voeC-N7oalmJ5l1HDs/edit#gid=0

but whilst calculating the percentage needed to delay I noticed that it doesn't work for some attacks, either that I just can't find them (well I can find them but warlight does not allow a decimal percentage to be moved)

EDIT: me and pana also had a discussion after trying to attempt it (I didn't really, he did) https://www.warlight.net/MultiPlayer?GameID=12547930

Edited 12/23/2016 13:31:49

Awesome work. Now please share the other tricks you're hoarding ;)

Now that everyone knows about this I'll have to turn off attack by % :( It's too annoyingly tedious have to calculate this every time.

Edited 12/23/2016 14:39:11