Posts from Dragon attack.

Everyone knows that dragons have the ability to attack two adjacent units at once. However, I don't always manage to use this tactic. :( It seems like two enemies are standing next to each other – I send in a dragon, and... it doesn't hit the second one. :smile50: But the computer never misses. Sometimes, it even manages to cleverly attack my dragons so that they retaliate and hit its own units. To improve my skills in using dragons (and there's nothing about this in the game manual), I conducted a test. It turned out to be not as obvious as I thought. As a result, I created this diagram. The diagram shows a fragment of the battlefield, with a two-hex unit in the center (it is not shown). Some of the hexes have numbers inside. Arrows indicate the possible attacks of a dragon on this unit (all possible options). Next to each arrow is a number – the number of the hex that will be affected by the dragon's attack (in addition to the unit itself). The dragon flies in from the left in this case. The number in parentheses is the same, but the dragon flies in from the right. I decided to share my findings with everyone. Tested on green dragons.

To be honest, it's utter nonsense.

I wrote it (created the diagram) in a confusing way – it’s hard to understand, or rather, there aren’t that many complexities in these attacks. But I noticed one peculiarity – the attack targets not the side of the hex, but its vertex. I’ve encountered this type of attack often, but I didn’t understand what its peculiarity was. Although, perhaps there’s nothing special about it.

I think this topic already exists in the "Физмиг" section, and it's explained in simpler terms there.

To be honest, it's some kind of nonsense.

What's not clear?
Let's assume we have a real situation:

Question: How should the green dragon attack to hit both the griffin and the pikeman at the same time?
In a different scenario:

The task is the same: the dragon must attack both the griffin and the pikeman without hitting its own units, but it must stand right next to the centaur.

Perhaps some will find these tasks absurd, and the answers obvious, but for me, for example, it's not entirely clear. That's why I created a diagram.

I think this topic is already in the physics engine, and it's explained there in a simpler way.

I didn't find it in the physics engine 1.16.

I didn't think people would have trouble mentally continuing the attack sequence with the sword.

I haven't had any problems with this myself. But it seems the author is trying to say that the dragon doesn't always attack in a straight line...
Although, according to the diagram, in these two examples, everything seems quite obvious.

when attacking with a dragon, the unit being attacked is highlighted.
you don't need to have ever seen the map layout, or even know about the existence of a physical attack, but it will hit 100% of the time.

I don't see any problems here; you can attack from multiple positions with the same result. But there were situations (usually with war machines) where, during a double attack aimed not at the side but at the top of the hex, or at the 2nd hex of the machine (this was related to the limited space for turning at the end of the field), the 2nd unit didn't take damage. I don't remember this happening with a direct attack.

I looked into it, and the problem is that the second cell of the ballista or tent is outside the battlefield, so even if the attack is supposed to hit it, it won't deal damage. If you attack by turning the head backward, this attack over two cells won't work – it will pass not through the side but through the top of the hex (at a right angle) and only hit the adjacent cell. These curved attacks are needed to deal more damage and take less in return, but they can't always be implemented.

I'm interested in the question about the Fairy Dragon... specifically, its Cold Ring attack. The thing is, when I attack with the Cold Ring, I have to hover the cursor over the enemy unit, and if that unit is small – a single-unit creature – the ring doesn't hit it, and the turn is wasted.
At the same time, the computer-controlled dragon manages to cast the ring in an empty space, let's say in front of the target, and thus damage it. Can a player cast the ring in an empty space as well?

Enable cursor highlighting and press F.

Interesting scheme, thank you to the author for creating it! I didn't understand some points before, but now I'll know some small nuances.
I don't know, I immediately understood everything in the table; everything is clearly explained.
The dragon doesn't always burn in a straight line, as indicated by the sword (cursor). This happens when attacking two-cell units. When attacking, the dragon lands with its front part on the spot where the cursor points. If the dragon needs to turn around to attack, it lands with its tail on the spot where the cursor points. With two-cell units, it's slightly different. In the second case, the dragon doesn't turn around but chooses to attack the back part of the two-cell unit, and the burn goes shifted by one diagonal. However, if we were to the right of the target before the attack, during the movement, the animation turns the dragon around, and it lands with its head to the left, and attacks a different diagonal.

To put it simply, when attacking a two-cell unit, if we're flying from the left, the dragon attacks the tail, and if we're flying from the right, the dragon attacks the head.

Example with pictures:
1st screenshot) The dragon flies in to attack from the left, and in this case, the skeletons will be burned!
2nd screenshot) Exactly the same situation, we also attack in the same direction, but the dragon flies in from the right side towards the target, and in this case, the devils will be burned!