Slitherine

Two armies with same width face to face.
Try to command AI attackers flank the wagonburg via MoveTeamCoord(),the destination coord was set to a tile adjacent to the most left/right enemy unit.I’ve tried aggression values of 4、8、16. All of the above can’t avoid AI confronting player before reaching the destination coord.Then 32、36、40、48、256 etc. which only cause the AI stalls before player frontline.
It seems AI performs more rationally without MoveTeamCoord() in this case. Furthermore,the AI’s tactic got even better with one cavalry and one bowmen units added to the original full infantry AI team.
Better to let it go rather than write some comprehensive and clumsy AutomaticMove() segments?
I’ve checked some epic battles scenarios similar.The offenders used AI_SimpleAdvance with multiple teams to assault one place.And these assault teams are facing the flanking side of their foes at the 1st stage.Hard to make a 90 degree turn to flank enemy with current tools,cuz the AI always can’t help contacting the player(otherwise stalls according to threat map)before such maneuver accomplished,unlike human player.
Exploiting needing parts in scripts,accidentally found GetDistanceTotheNearestEnemy for ThreatMap (the current one is 4 for combatants 6 for bowmen as I remembered). Have to change main build?

My conception is to take over a prepared position by a smaller but skillful elite force.

You might need to use a script that makes them first move to one coordinate on the flank of the enemy wagonburg, and then to another behind the actual wagonburgg line.

But whatever you do, it will be difficult to get the group to move diagonally, so you would probably need to deploy them in a column for the initial move past the wagonburg flank.

rbodleyscott wrote: ↑Tue Jun 11, 2024 6:18 am But whatever you do, it will be difficult to get the group to move diagonally, so you would probably need to deploy them in a column for the initial move past the wagonburg flank.

I tried this way yesterday,to some extend,it works(left column before XfrontMin,right beyond XfrontMax).
That works only if the flankers are placed on the two wings at the beginning.

locustmustdie wrote: ↑Tue Jun 11, 2024 7:22 am

rbodleyscott wrote: ↑Tue Jun 11, 2024 6:18 am But whatever you do, it will be difficult to get the group to move diagonally, so you would probably need to deploy them in a column for the initial move past the wagonburg flank.

I tried this way yesterday,to some extend,it works(left column before XfrontMin,right beyond XfrontMax).
That works only if the flankers are placed on the two wings at the beginning.

Yep