The Illogic of Flight

[llamabeast]

I reckon they can't fire bows/do magic when they're flying. Too much flapping around going on. So they have to land to do anything.

[B0rsuk]

Flying units who really fly are hard to balance, as Master of Magic shows us. Especially in a game where you don't have direct control over your units.

[Sombre]

You could represent the defensive properties of flight by giving ranged fliers a bonus to their defense, or a shield armor called 'wing buffet' or something.

[Ironhawk]

Yeah its not about whats "realistic" (if that term can even be applied to dominions), its about what plays well. Having flying units the way they are maintains balance.

[Kristoffer O]

Also, the flying mechanic was added in the game when it was still dom1 where there was no way of zooming around and inspecting things from different angles. It would have been rather difficult to see where and what flyers were doing. The mechanic has stayed as they are, even though I have played with the idea of hoovering units. I guess JK who would have to program it would be less interested as the current system works ok in most situations.

[K]

Fliers would then also have to have a mechanic for getting hit in the wing and then falling to their deaths...

Really, there is a point where additional complexity and "realism" just makes things more complicated but not better.

I'm much happier with the idea that fliers have to land to do anything rather than mess with the realities of flight.

[BigDisAwesome]

I'm gonna have to agree with K on this one myself.