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Old May 4th, 2004, 02:55 PM

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Default Re: Stupid flying units getting killed makes me angry

Disagree if you like, but I stand by my original opinion: flying units being stupid and plopping themselves down in front of routed units and getting themselves killed makes me angry. Chasing down units from behind, or flying up next to them and attacking them, I can live with. But personally I'd rather see a few units escape (to be killed in the next battle) than lose my expensive flying units. The whole point of using the fliers to Attack Rear is to wipe out the enemy commanders and cause an early rout, thus keeping my casualties down.

I'm not saying that this is a game breaker or anything, just that I find it personally very annoying. Also, I think the various explanations people have offered for why flying units should be getting themselves killed in this manner are more along the lines of rationalizations. I don't believe for a second that the designers sat down and thought: "Let's counterbalance the power of flying units by making them more likely to get killed by retreating units. Plus it'll help deal with the 'units should sometimes get cut-off and be forced to fight back' issue we've been worrying about." I like my own explanation better, which is that the combat system is fairly simplistic and simply can't handle concepts like "don't stand in front of retreating units, attack from the side instead."
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