Stun Lancer behavior: value of cover and tile checking
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2017 4:16 pm
Two questions about Stun Lancers:
1. They expose themselves to other than the targeted soldier to melee attack. Are they meant to be suicidal? I can see them risking the flank on the targeted soldier but being flanked by other soldiers doesn't seem to have significant or any value.
2. I had to retreat from a pod including a Stun Lancer and completely broke LOS. Before any other member of the pod reestablishes contact to my squad, the Stun Lancer double moves to melee my soldier hiding behind a building wall, who the lancer could not have seen after his blue move. How is this possible without tile checking?
(More so, the player can tile check but can't start a melee/Fleche without vision, I think.)
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1. They expose themselves to other than the targeted soldier to melee attack. Are they meant to be suicidal? I can see them risking the flank on the targeted soldier but being flanked by other soldiers doesn't seem to have significant or any value.
2. I had to retreat from a pod including a Stun Lancer and completely broke LOS. Before any other member of the pod reestablishes contact to my squad, the Stun Lancer double moves to melee my soldier hiding behind a building wall, who the lancer could not have seen after his blue move. How is this possible without tile checking?
(More so, the player can tile check but can't start a melee/Fleche without vision, I think.)
P.S.: First post, first questions. I tried to use the search function and checked the last 10 pages but couldn't find anything related.
If this topic already exists please link and close thread. Thanks.
![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif)