controlling wall miner

[dbukalski]

i drop my army. they destroy first wall ring. i drop wall miner and rally on the 2nd wall ring. entire army attacks wall where i targeted. wall miner runs in opposite direction......how do u get this guy to attack walls deeper in enemy defenses? ive seen people use 2x wall miner to bust through both rings of my wall defenses

 

[x0pht]

per my experience with the other famous "you-know-what" game lol, try dropping both at once.

 

[Владимир Первый]

That's an awesome advice. thanks

 

[x0pht]

No problem. Hopefully it's gonna work. Just started this game and I'm still in Iron Age, so I cant really test it out. but i assume it makes the most sense that wall miners attack the nearest walls that trap a building.

but you gotta make sure the second nearest wall to where your wall miners blow up the first wall is the one you want to blow up next.

 

[Erasmus]

...i assume it makes the most sense that wall miners attack the nearest walls that trap a building..

Unfortunately in DomiNations, my experience is that the building doesn't have to be trapped by walls, just behind them. So after you breach the outer wall, if you drop another miner right away it will just go to break another hole in the outer wall.

Whenever I've tried dropping two miners right away, they just end up targetting and blowing two holes in the outer wall. It seems like the second miner doesn't notice that the first wall is breached so he never goes for a deeper wall. Another issue is that a ballista or tower on the other side of the wall might target them if they ran out in front of the other troops. So depending on the base you might have to actually wait until the whole outer layer is cleared before dropping the second miner.

One minor (miner? ) annoyance is that they won't attack a wall unless there's a building behind it. This comes up when you've cleared out the inside of the base and you're trying to get through the far wall to get to the last outside buildings. You'd think a miner dropped out there would be happy to blow a hole, but if the inside of the base is empty the miner will instead target a nearby building with his axe.

 

[dbukalski]

so 2 miners dropped at same time blow 2 holes in outer wall. ive tried to rally on the wall i want blown but miner still goes random direction. someone did successfully have 2 miners dropped separately punch a whole through my inner wall so ill keep trying stuff

 

[x0pht]

Unfortunately in DomiNations, my experience is that the building doesn't have to be trapped by walls, just behind them. So after you breach the outer wall, if you drop another miner right away it will just go to break another hole in the outer wall.

Whenever I've tried dropping two miners right away, they just end up targetting and blowing two holes in the outer wall. It seems like the second miner doesn't notice that the first wall is breached so he never goes for a deeper wall. Another issue is that a ballista or tower on the other side of the wall might target them if they ran out in front of the other troops. So depending on the base you might have to actually wait until the whole outer layer is cleared before dropping the second miner.

One minor (miner? ) annoyance is that they won't attack a wall unless there's a building behind it. This comes up when you've cleared out the inside of the base and you're trying to get through the far wall to get to the last outside buildings. You'd think a miner dropped out there would be happy to blow a hole, but if the inside of the base is empty the miner will instead target a nearby building with his axe.

that's some odd AI then. Thanks for sharing it with us.