Hearthling Archers Refusing to Attack

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Summary:
I noticed that with a mixed party of Footmen, Clerics and Archers, the melee units were almost always arriving at their destination without ranged support. I isolated the Archers into a party of their own and kited a Giant Zombie to my town wall. There I ordered the three Archers to attack, but one of them refuses to do so, preferring going back to patrol somewhere else and completely ignoring the threat.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Load up my current save (8.9 MB)
  2. Order the Archer party (Party 2) to attack the Giant Zombie

Expected Results:

All the Hearthling on the Party to attack the Giant Zombie

Actual Results:

One of the Archers decides that it has better things to do and ignores the order

Notes:

Footmen also ignore nearby threats to an extent, but since they are so close, it’s easier to coax them into attacking.

Also, unrelated, but sometimes after a battle (say, clearing a goblin camp) the Footmen wants to attack a goblin village that is located quite a distance away, and only by ordering your units all the way to the town they sometimes disengage. When they don’t disengage, I have to save & reload. It’s harder to reproduce, but it happened on this save as well.

Attachments:

The save game

Version Number and Mods in use:

Alpha 16 develop 2955

System Information:

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They just released a patch to fix that issue, trying it out now

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Still happening in dev 2960.

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Yup, my archer was doing fine until the kobolds show up. He then just walked away letting them get slaughtered.
Dev 2960

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I know this is not a fix, but there is a way to bypass having your troops ignoring enemies. I also ran into the issue of units ignoring enemies and attacking objects, or archers just walking away. What I ended up doing is setting defense flags instead of attack flags. The archers always run to the attack flags, and when they are at a defense flag and an enemy comes near, they always attack. When enemies moved around, I just shifted the defense flag to a different position to get the archers to move.

Until a fix is implemented, it is at least a way to be able to utilize archers.

This is on dev-2969

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Paging @jomaxro to this topic. However there is already three other topics on this bug, so this bug might be very common:

http://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/archers-wont-shoot-if-they-had-a-defend-order-prior-to-an-attack-order/22156
http://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/archers-dont-attack-and-stutterstep/22150
http://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/archers-stand-next-to-target/22123