[rdonj]

That is true, up to a point. Rangers are still probably technically archers though, so if you set your shortbows to fire archers, they won't waste quite as much time on the miners. You would probably still need something to deal with the miners though. I think a lot of weirdness with dealing with the flanking miners could be dealt with just by never scripting attack/fire closest on anything that you don't want to set chasing miners down. Use attack rear for your melee units, and probably fire archers for any ranged units you have. The problem though is you can't really just ignore the miners, they're pretty nasty in melee. So you need to have some method of killing them. A thug or two on each flank would probably be sufficient, more or less.