Illithid Shuffle - Why?

[Norfleet]

Units ordered to fire will advance until a designated enemy is in range of their weapons, then fire.

Illithids have a prec-100, unlimited-range attack. Why is it that Illithids can be sometimes observed to perform this ground-shuffle instead of remaining in their orderly block? It's not that they can't reach their targets, obviously, because their attack is unlimited range and can hit anyone anywhere on the battlefield with perfect accuracy....so why do they do move at all, while they still have ammo?

[Yossar]

I've never seen Ilithids move before they run out of ammo when they're set on fire. What kind of circustances have you observed this under?

[calmon]

Maybe all the enemies were mindless?

[ June 04, 2004, 06:26: Message edited by: calmon ]

[Cohen]

Commander can't be mindless ... but perhaps it has been killed and enemy was immobile on battle field.

[Yossar]

Originally posted by Cohen:
Commander can't be mindless ... but perhaps it has been killed and enemy was immobile on battle field.

Golem is a mindless commander and there might be a few others.

[Norfleet]

No, they didn't start moving because there were no valid targets, they merely shuffled a few squares randomly forwards, then resumed firing, just like archers sometimes do when their targets are out of range....except Illithids CAN'T be out of range.

So why do they do that?