flanking bonus?

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Just curious if there is a flanking bonus in the game, i.e. bonus to damage and/or accuracy or smtng when you attack enemies from the side or from behind. If yes, I have missed it completely and would be very glad if someone could explain how it works. If no, wouldn't that be a really cool addition? Most of the time tactical combat feels a bit too static imo, just running up to the enemy and hacking away and rarely any incentive to move your troops.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Sort of. There's a bonus to attacking a unit that is adjacent to other units of yours, but not for the direction your attack comes from. I believe it's something like +1 attack and +5 accuracy per friendly unit adjacent to the target unit.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Sort of. There's a bonus to attacking a unit that is adjacent to other units of yours, but not for the direction your attack comes from. I believe it's something like +1 attack and +5 accuracy per friendly unit adjacent to the target unit.
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...and it's called "swarm". Lupines and canines get this bonus doubled, as you can see in their skill window.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Yes I know about the swarm bonus. Flanking would reward having high movement, high initiative units though, while swarm just rewards... well.. swarming.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

True that. It would be nice if there were some more tactical maneuvers to make.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

If there was a flanking bonus, I doubt it would be facing-related, because there's no easy way to change your facing.  It would probably be like D&D (4e, specifically, is what I'm thinking of), where it's assumed that a combatant can easily turn to face any one enemy, but get enemies on opposite sides or corners and you get the bonus.

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

Usually, when I am swarming an opponent, I try to maneuver my units as far to the opposite as possible anyway, so I can swarm with the most units. Meanwhile I also have to take care so as not to expose my more fragile units, putting the tanks in the middle of the fight. I do not see how a flanking bonus would add anything new to this.

Oh, and I forgot to mention all the units with multi-attacks I have to position correctly...