Angelic Host Incursion question

[covenant]

I am new to the game and would like to know how Angelic Host Incursion mechanics work.
I am playing vs bots and it appears that the angelic host is just teleporting to any of my legions and just ignoring everything else no matter what I do or which other faction's legion is closer. I don't have enough ranged damage or health to get rid of it. I summoned it to see what it does but now ironically it won't let my legions alone. I am playing Erzsebet in this match. I have saved on turn 50 so I can use this to learn about the mechanics.

[Cassander]

I don't know everything but I'm sure about some things:
-The Angel spawns rather close to the first legion they want to kill.
-They target one legion per Archfiend, all selected when the Event is played or when the Angel spawns.
-The order in which they target the various Archfiends is consistently tied to the number of legions hired, and I suspect that may change if an Archfiend recruits enough legions during the event. More legions is target first, of course.
-They take the shortest route to their chosen legion, attacking and often destroying any other legion they might encounter.
-The Angel has a timer, I don't know how long. When that ticks over, the Angel goes back to Heaven and who survived survived. That's particularly meaningful in large maps or if you have a 5+ movement legion that gets selected.

In Belial's Chronicle you start with the Angel card. If you activate it the very first turn, I found it works as a pretty good tutorial to the event.

[Ausar The Vile (Россия)]

I've discovered that if Leviathan event card also played at the same time with the Angel one, it will always target the Leviathan first, no matter how far it is. It's kinda funny to see those Titans battling each other to the death.

[covenant]

Originally posted by Cassander:

I don't know everything but I'm sure about some things:
-The Angel spawns rather close to the first legion they want to kill.
-They target one legion per Archfiend, all selected when the Event is played or when the Angel spawns.
-The order in which they target the various Archfiends is consistently tied to the number of legions hired, and I suspect that may change if an Archfiend recruits enough legions during the event. More legions is target first, of course.
-They take the shortest route to their chosen legion, attacking and often destroying any other legion they might encounter.
-The Angel has a timer, I don't know how long. When that ticks over, the Angel goes back to Heaven and who survived survived. That's particularly meaningful in large maps or if you have a 5+ movement legion that gets selected.

In Belial's Chronicle you start with the Angel card. If you activate it the very first turn, I found it works as a pretty good tutorial to the event.

Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation!

I didn't know about most of these mechanics. I am pretty sure the host wanted to target my starting legion so it happened to wipe other ones in its path as well and that is why I lost multiple. I wasn't getting targeted, my base just had a very unfortunate positioning relative to the event spawn.

[covenant]

Originally posted by Ausar The Vile (Россия):

I've discovered that if Leviathan event card also played at the same time with the Angel one, it will always target the Leviathan first, no matter how far it is. It's kinda funny to see those Titans battling each other to the death.

That is very funny, I didn't know about this interaction. Thanks for the advice for this.