Question on Menage a trois CW battle scenario

SlyGambit, on Jul 14 2014 - 13:39, said: Saw this scenario on the map and had a couple questions.  Warning terrible MSPaint™ image inbound    I think this is the result of BULLS attacking NTR's two provinces and NTR countering from one. Correct   1)  I assume NTR did this to space the battles allowing their A team in both but did NTR have the option of countering from both? I can't speak to their reasons, but this wouldn't delay the battle. The encounter is always going to be in the turn immediately following the prime time, while the land battles start to take place the one after that. Unless a 3rd party also chips into NTR or BULLS, the battles will still be at the same time. 2)  If that option was there and they had countered on both and won both how would the resulting battle(s) for LA be set up? . They can't counter from both with a full stack, since that would equal 30 chips. If they caused an encounter by moving two half-stacks into LA, they would be making a big mistake. They'd have to fight an 8v15 in one encounter battle and a 7v15 in the other simultaneously, which likely wouldn't go too well for them in either, and both provinces of theirs would then be under attack.   Had a first for me fighting another land holding clan for the right to fight a landowner last night.  Was surprised that we got our tanks locked (I'd assumed the result would be similar to a landing tourney).  So I was looking for some more information on land owner battles and saw this scrap and thought I should probably try to understand in in case of future CW fun. Encounter battles and Challengers battles both have tank locking. It's only battles in the tournaments for a riot/landing up to (but not including) the battle with owner province that do not lock tanks.
Related to that is there a logical reason behind locking tanks in land tournaments but not locking them in landing tournies or is that just WG being WG? Landing tournaments can consist of 7 battles in a single night - imagine how many tanks would be locked at the end of that tournament. That would just be too many.