Flying units attacking rear ?

[velk]

Originally posted by Argitoth:

The ice devil will attack rearmost because the army is not in the way.

This is my hypothesis (educated guess).

This seemed reasonable, and straightforward enough to test, so I set up the following.

Test 1 : A black knight at the rear middle of field with orders to hold. An ulm bodyguard in the center of the field, directly in front of him, also with orders to hold.

On the opponent side a van in the front center ( in line with bodyguard and commander ) also with orders to hold, and behind him at the rear a valkyrie with orders to attack rear.

Results : About 50% of the time the valkyrie would attack the knight, and about 50% of the time his bodyguard.

Test 2 : I moved both the valkyrie and knight to the bottom of the screen, and the bodyguard and the van to the top of the screen.

Results : About 50% of the time the valkyrie would attack the knight, and about 50% of the time his bodyguard.

Overall I am kind of puzzled. My best guess is that there is some kind of fudge factor applied to prevent you from ambushing commanders easily.