Unit turns away on attack order move.

[IamFierce]

Here’s what is happening:

There are a few units that will turn away from attacking a castle. The castle is guarded by two invulnerable towers owned by real players. The computer that is allied with the players owns the castle. The units in questions are owned by an enemy computer.

The wagon unit turns away from attacking the castle and retreats. I’ve done the following suggestions on searching a solution:

A.I disabled Guard Position for computer owned units.

Turned can flee to false

Tried changing the towers classification to ward.

I have a 10 second time that sends the units forward. I know that I can decrease that time, but that is my last minute solution, as that would affect units in the middle of casting abilities.

Any other suggestions or idea as to how this can be resolved?

 

[Chaosy]

I cannot think of any reason any unit would "turn away" under any circumstance.

Unless:
1. You have triggers that modify unit facing
2. You actually mean run away and not turn away

Screenshot could be helpful too

 

[IamFierce]

Yes, I am mean run away. And here is what I tested. The unit stops at about the targeting range. Here is a photo from it

 

[Pyrogasm]

For kicks, make the towers vulnerable to see if that fixes the problem. I know it's not the solution you want, but it could help narrow down a workaround if that's it. If that wagon can attack and would be moved off course by the now-vulnerable towers, also put them up on cliffs to see if you get the same or different behavior.

 

[IamFierce]

Okay great ideas. I will run them tomorrow morning and post the results.

 

[IamFierce]

It seems that certain units, despite having all the requirements to attack proficiently as the rest, have some underlying AI codes applied to them. The wagon unit, being primarily a non attacking unit, is treated by prescripted AI that is met by certain circumstances. In this case, having towers that are on the same level terrain as it.

Moving the towers up 1 level of terrain made it so that they stopped running away when drawing near. The problem is fixed in so much that if one wants to avoid the issue, they would have to either A) increase the terrain for the towers by 1 level or B) increase the frequency of the attack-move triggers.

Thanks all!