Fire Archers Command

[Kobal2]

Originally Posted by Shangrila00

Sometimes I think the game is specifically out to screw the players.

Oh, mos' def'. An MP game of dominions is not, as you could think, a duel of the minds between armchair strategists. It's actually a separate pair of cursing matches with the battle AI

[Edi]

Originally Posted by Kobal2

Oh, mos' def'. An MP game of dominions is not, as you could think, a duel of the minds between armchair strategists. It's actually a separate pair of cursing matches with the battle AI

Allow me to quote Johan K:

It's not supposed to be fair

That's paraphrased from a response to some CoE3 beta testing things, but probably applies just as well to Dominions...

[Torin]

im pretty sure that archers do not care about HP or possible damage dealing. Thats why they fire at lonely "arrow catchers"
I assume they fire the closest archer possible. Perhaps javelineers are archers too. Im not sure exactly wich are archers.

A commander with a bow (equipped or not) shouldnt be targetted since you cannot fire at commander or attack commander.
But i think that if you position him forwars he will be targetted. Someone does this?

[Shangrila00]

There's definitely some preferential targetting going on. Fire archers does target javelins in an army with only melee troops, but will target bow/crossbows over javelins even if the latter is closer. I feel kind of stupid since that was obvious with the way that lots of indy armies mix archers with javelin armed light infantry. So you definitely can't decoy fire archers with javelins. Don't know about slingers, though it doesn't seem worth looking into seeing as how slingers are just as squishy and no cheaper than indy shortbows.