Archers ignore firing orders?

[hoom]

I've had the issue with 1.2 that when I tell (Julii Roman) archers to fire at a particular unit, they tend to actually shoot at some other unit instead.
This appears to happen regardless of fire at will & grouping.
I'm fairly sure I've seen it with some other missile units during some multiplayer too but didn't realise till I had a good look in a sp battle.

[Quietus]

You mean Fire-at-will is disabled? Did you put the unit in guard mode as well?

[hoom]

No, I mean that regardless of whether fire at will is on or off, when I select some archers & tell them to shoot at a particular unit that is in range, most of the time they wind up firing at a different target *
In STW & MTW, even with fire at will on, you could select a missile unit & tell it to shoot at a different target & it always did.

* and when I say different, I mean I've seen like 45 degrees bearing difference

[Lord Preston]

havent notaced this but i have notaced other unit atticking different units from what i click on. like i flanked a phalanx and tried to attack there general from behind, well 3 of the units went for the general and the other 2 went into a phalanx that had turned around, no matter how many times i clicked on the general.

[Quietus]

Hmm, it has never happened to me before. I've used one archer unit (Cretan archers) in 1.2 so far and they are always obedient. I just put them on guard mode and disabled fire at will.

Guard mode doesn't work on Hastati, and Principes etc though, they always attack.

[hoom]

Kinda has the feel of the group movement bug but only for attacks or something

[Quietus]

Oh, you mean grouped archers don't always fire on a particular unit. I only have one archer so far. I'll keep a lookout when I get another archer.

[Prodigal]

Is this in one particular situation, or a constant? Noticed something similar during a siege, so the archers were static, seemed related to the target moving "just" out of range, so that the archers target something else, then moved back again