"Attacking troops will now engage defending troops from further away" ?

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Originally Posted by alexheney

It makes absolutely no difference whatsoever to the behaviour of the pups.

And until all the ADs are down, it makes no difference to the behaviour of the hounds in your attack force either.

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Does it not really? AFAIK, cc troop engaging AI is same for heroes or skelli trap engaging.

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Originally Posted by Deadlyxda

Does it not really?

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Absolutely.

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AFAIK, cc troop engaging AI is same for heroes or skelli trap engaging.

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I'm not sure what the relevance of this is.

Any attacking troops with a "favourite target" will go for that target as long as any are still up, and will totally ignore any defending troops while doing so.

Lava hounds have a favourite target of Air Defence, so will go for those regardless of any CC troops until all ADs are down.

If any lava hounds have not popped when the last AD goes down, then they will no longer engage any defending aerial troops (which by that stage should only be skeleton traps set to air). But they will engage ground troops.

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Originally Posted by alexheney

Absolutely.



I'm not sure what the relevance of this is.

Any attacking troops with a "favourite target" will go for that target as long as any are still up, and will totally ignore any defending troops while doing so.

Lava hounds have a favourite target of Air Defence, so will go for those regardless of any CC troops until all ADs are down.

If any lava hounds have not popped when the last AD goes down, then they will no longer engage any defending aerial troops (which by that stage should only be skeleton traps set to air). But they will engage ground troops.

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Sigh, no one is talking about hound attacking AQ at all. What are you going on about lol

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Originally Posted by fplant

Does this mean that pentalavaloon is going to be more effective again? Will the lava pups engage the AQ more often now?

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Originally Posted by alexheney

It makes absolutely no difference whatsoever to the behaviour of the pups.

And until all the ADs are down, it makes no difference to the behaviour of the hounds in your attack force either.

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First, please keep Hound attacking behavior out of this. No one is asking if it will target AD or cc or aq or something else entirely after update.
Second, "ATTACKING TROOPS WILL NOW ENGAGE DEFENDING TROOPS FROM FURTHER AWAY"

Lets take "Defending troops"

They are cc, skellies, and heroes. Yes heroes are defending "troops" category as healer targets them and cc only in defense cc.

So, his question was will the "pups" which has no favorite target and therefore will it be more likely to target AQ nearby after the update?

yes it will because it has more aggro range after the update to defending troops which is AQ too.

So, hence the relevance. hope i made it clear enough

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Originally Posted by fplant

Does this mean that pentalavaloon is going to be more effective again? Will the lava pups engage the AQ more often now?

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Yes, I believe it does. A few updates ago they made the aggro radius smaller for attacking troops on heros and cc troops. So during a raid your troops would sometimes pretty much ignore the cc troops or queen while getting shot down by them. Sounds like this is a fix for that problem. Should apply to pups locking on the aq rather than nearby buildings, hopefully.

We will see if they found a happy medium. Troops not dropping everything and running halfway across the map because of a skele trap, but also not ignoring the archer queen shooting them in the face either.

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Originally Posted by alexheney

If any lava hounds have not popped when the last AD goes down, then they will no longer engage any defending aerial troops (which by that stage should only be skeleton traps set to air). But they will engage ground troops.

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I could be wrong but it's my understanding that they never did. After ADs are all destroyed the hounds switch to other defences as their preferred target. Or have I got that wrong? Don't use hounds a lot.

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Originally Posted by sj74

I could be wrong but it's my understanding that they never did. After ADs are all destroyed the hounds switch to other defences as their preferred target. Or have I got that wrong? Don't use hounds a lot.

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You are correct, they will target any nearest defense once all AD are fown, then any nearest building/troops once all defenses are down

What I observed was once the defending troops engaged mine that my attacking troops engaged from that point at a larger distance

Love the change for Valkyrie core rushes

Definetly not the old distance where troops would jog across the map but a more in the middle range

Yes, looks like they've got it about right to me too. Certainly the best of the 3 aggro radii we've had.

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Originally Posted by IllAdvised

Yes, I believe it does. A few updates ago they made the aggro radius smaller for attacking troops on heros and cc troops. So during a raid your troops would sometimes pretty much ignore the cc troops or queen while getting shot down by them. Sounds like this is a fix for that problem. Should apply to pups locking on the aq rather than nearby buildings, hopefully.

We will see if they found a happy medium. Troops not dropping everything and running halfway across the map because of a skele trap, but also not ignoring the archer queen shooting them in the face either.

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hopefully they did, but I have feeling it'll be more aggravating than helpful...I can already see my BK reaching core storages just to turn around a beat a wall because skellies are on the other side, only now it's even more likely...😕

What about heroes ? Same for them?