More Stupid Archer Behavior

[Vaylon Kenadell]

I have a battle scribe note from Dwilight to show you. Through the whole battle, our archers were able to fire at the monsters. Then, once the monsters break through the front lines, the "archers move forward to get better shots" even though they were able to shoot at the monsters the entire time.

Is my interpretation of this wrong? Should archers be doing this?

[Anaris]

Not a bug.

It's not "once the monsters break through the front lines", it's "once the monsters are engaged in close combat with the infantry".  The monsters broke through the front lines after the archers advanced.

Archers cannot shoot into melee more than 1 row away.

[egamma]

Is the advancing determined by aggressive/normal/defensive?

[Anaris]

No. If archers have no target in range, and there are targets left on the field, they will advance to find one.

[egamma]

what if they were defending, with or without walls?

[Vaylon Kenadell]

Or what if they were dug in?

[Vaylon Kenadell]

I Company Archers, I Dalian Army (3) fire carefully into the close combat near them.
I Company Archers, I Dalian Army (3) fire on Monsters (7), scoring 1 hits.
Dalian Battle-Hail (2) fire carefully into the close combat near them.
Dalian Battle-Hail (2) fire on Monsters (7), scoring 1 hits.
Longbowmen (4) fire carefully into the close combat near them.
Longbowmen (4) fire on Monsters (7), scoring 1 hits.

So few hits.  :(

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Can you provide a battle report for that?

[Huntsmaster]

Fissoa just saw this as well:

Sunflights (6) fire on Monsters (1), scoring 111 hits.
Defenders of the South (2) fire on Monsters (1), scoring 223 hits.

becomes

Defenders of the South (2) move closer so they can fire safely into the melee.
Sunflights (6) fire carefully into the close combat near them.
Sunflights (6) fire on Monsters (1), scoring 0 hits.

and

Defenders of the South (2) fire carefully into the close combat near them.
Defenders of the South (2) fire on Monsters (1), scoring 1 hits.
Sunflights (6) fire carefully into the close combat near them.
Sunflights (6) fire on Monsters (1), scoring 1 hits.

Battle report: http://battlemaster.org/ShowScribeNote.php?ID=163969&Hash=75891364f465cbe7

[Vaylon Kenadell]

Can you provide a battle report for that?

Here it is. Dwilight. First round, all the archers target the peasants, thus screwing the infantry. :P

[fodder]

1 arc vs 1 dug in monster

http://battlemaster.org/ShowScribeNote.php?ID=164241&Hash=519e872208ee4ace

not so much stupid archers... as stupid dug in monsters XD

the funniest part is the last bit.

no inf cover, arc retreats
monsters get hit, retreats
arc shocked (and so didn't retreat)

[egamma]

Here it is. Dwilight. First round, all the archers target the peasants, thus screwing the infantry. :P

Archers always fire on closest target.

[Vaylon Kenadell]

Archers always fire on closest target.

Okay, but should they be scoring only 1 hit for firing into a melee?

[fodder]

tim knows about that and did say there's something wrong there.