Make Dragons Chase CC Giants???

Jus saw a teammate attack an enemy in war, guy had a giant (plus wiz/barbs) in his CC. Granted the dragon drops were bad, but when they got to the CC, they CHASED the giants/barbs as the giants/barbs were chasing my mate's bking. The basically ignored the missiles, TH, mortars, archer t, everything. ONLY ONE dragon was already attacking a missile and he didnt get distracted by the CC troops, he continued to go after the missile, thank god, or he may have lost the 3star op.

Have you seen this, and isnt this highly irregular behavior? Why are 3 dragons chasing one giant???

Just finished a clan war the other day. My dragons were on the right side of the map and they had 2 skellies left in the middle of his base. I dropped my King and the Queen at the bottom of the base so they can snipe the TH. The skellies noticed my heroes and started coming towards them. For some reason, this attracted my dragons and pulled them towards the skellies. My dragons ended up right infront of the TH when the skellies died making it alot easier for me to take the TH down :)

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Originally Posted by earhole

Just finished a clan war the other day. My dragons were on the right side of the map and they had 2 skellies left in the middle of his base. I dropped my King and the Queen at the bottom of the base so they can snipe the TH. The skellies noticed my heroes and started coming towards them. For some reason, this attracted my dragons and pulled them towards the skellies. My dragons ended up right infront of the TH when the skellies died making it alot easier for me to take the TH down :)

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So for you it was a good result, but unexpected? So what is that??? Is there any description for a dragons attack behavior that makes it follow troops rather than buildings?

It seems you are higher level than I am and heck, there has to be some logic here.

Its the same for any troop that isnt target specific (i.e. pekka, valk, wiz, archer). They will all go after CC troops if theyre not in the middle of hitting something already.

sometimes it works for you, other times its a massive pain.

CC troops are usually the best way to pull dragons into the base

I guess what I dont understand is, the drags flew right OVER the TH to chase the CC troops that were on the OTHER side of the TH... in other words, they PRIORITIZED the cc troops instead of the closer TH... that to me makes no sense. Then that is no the "nearest target."

Dragons (and other "any target" troops) prioritize Clan Castle troops before anything else.

A good attacker will only deploy Dragons. Skeletons for example will just stand at the CC waiting for death and Dragons to be pulled to the CC. Then after the CC or all the skeletons are destroyed, the King comes in. Or your opponent will sacrifice the King before the Dragons are sent in.

In those cases: Giants/Witches/Barbs do absolutely nothing. Against a weak attacker they may screw the whole attack up.

I'd put a couple of barbs or a Giant in a (TH8) CC, just so they can screw up.

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Originally Posted by JosSi

Dragons (and other "any target" troops) prioritize Clan Castle troops before anything else.

A good attacker will only deploy Dragons. Skeletons for example will just stand at the CC waiting for death and Dragons to be pulled to the CC. Then after the CC or all the skeletons are destroyed, the King comes in. Or your opponent will sacrifice the King before the Dragons are sent in.

In those cases: Giants/Witches/Barbs do absolutely nothing. Against a weak attacker they may screw the whole attack up.

I'd put a couple of barbs or a Giant in a (TH8) CC, just so they can screw up.

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But vs an all draco attack, then the cc troops would jus sit there no? Or I guess actually they would chase after the bking but otherwise, they wouldnt move I assume, unless there are some ground troops alive?

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Originally Posted by JMASTERJ

So for you it was a good result, but unexpected? So what is that??? Is there any description for a dragons attack behavior that makes it follow troops rather than buildings?

It seems you are higher level than I am and heck, there has to be some logic here.

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Logic is that they have no set target, so when cc troops or heroes come near, they chase them. Same for any other troop with preferred target like barbs and arch and minions

Ok so what is "near"? When do the attacking "any target" troops start going after defender's CC troops? Is there a precise # of squares or radius from CC, does it depend on the troops that is attacking, ie, does a dragon "see" and chade CC troops earlier than a wizard might?

For example, my clanmate just attacked a base where his golem was on an outside AD, 2 wizards behind him... a second before the wiz were about to attack that AD, about 15 squares away the defense CC was triggered and that wall was also broken. Some of those CC troops came over the wall and when they got within about 7-8 squares, the wiz shot them, then continued to the rest of the CC troops about 15 squares away.

If that werent bad enough, on the way, they stopped and and shot at a barrack that was on the way instead of continuing and then shooting at the CC troops. Maybe because the rax was blocking their direct route to the cc troops? Then again there was a clear path around the right, only an extra several squares of running. I have seen troops go around walls and obstructions like the wb did in this very instance, but not the wiz, they have to kill the rax in front and then go on???

So to me, there is absolutely no logic here, more like a "bug." The only way this would make sense is if the logic were:

When a defense CC is activated, "any target" attacking troops within "X" squares of the CC troops will immediately go target those troops regardless of anything they were about to attack or were attacking, and will continue to only go after all the CC troops until one of the forces are all destroyed. If however, there is any structure directly in their path to the CC troops, they will destroy that first instead of going around and then continue to attack the CC troops.

So is that an accurate statement, and if so what is "X"?

If not, what IS the proper rule?