Can Archaon Not Be Killed?

[Agent Smirnoff]

Playing as Greenskins. Went at Archaon with two full armies at once, won both times. However, he seems to keep standing with barely any health left. And when my armies are right next to him they just refuse to attack, granted I'm deep in the mountains so maybe pathfinding is screwed up or something. Is this just the way it is, is it just not possible to kill him?

[Reverend Belial]

It's a random thing that seems to happen with some lords. I've had Mannfred do that to me too.

[Private Pyle]

No you can kill him, its just chaos loves to kite you around and the AI calculates the exact distance you can move so it makes it pretty annoying.

Im not sure about the mechanics, but he actually does come back to life if you dont elminate all the legendary chaos generals while he is "dead." I think the game refers to this as his wounded state.

The way i did it was defeat his army, chase him down until you actually kill him, then go after the rest of the generals, kohlek and the bird wizard thing.

To catch them, surround with multiple armies to cut off the retreat or use ambush with a weaker army as bait.

IMO, the kiting is really annoying so i use a mod to give +10% move range within your territory. I recommend it.

[Hypnosis]

Originally posted by Ratt (Nice Guy Dota League):

No you can kill him, its just chaos loves to kite you around and the AI calculates the exact distance you can move so it makes it pretty annoying.

Im not sure about the mechanics, but he actually does come back to life if you dont elminate all the legendary chaos generals while he is "dead." I think the game refers to this as his wounded state.

The way i did it was defeat his army, chase him down until you actually kill him, then go after the rest of the generals, kohlek and the bird wizard thing.

To catch them, surround with multiple armies to cut off the retreat or use ambush with a weaker army as bait.

IMO, the kiting is really annoying so i use a mod to give +10% move range within your territory. I recommend it.

Wrong. No the AI does not calculate the exact distance you can move. It just goes into march stance and moves the opposite direction.

Originally posted by Agent Smirnoff:

Playing as Greenskins. Went at Archaon with two full armies at once, won both times. However, he seems to keep standing with barely any health left. And when my armies are right next to him they just refuse to attack, granted I'm deep in the mountains so maybe pathfinding is screwed up or something. Is this just the way it is, is it just not possible to kill him?

It is possible. You must not be in any stance.

[Agent Smirnoff]

Cool just wanted to know, I would've been po'd about that. Although sadly I had to pul both armies out because they were losing so much just from attrition. Although, I have a scout following him and it looks like he going north now, so he's not much a of a problem now, but as Greenskins, I've killed every other orc tribe, and the dwarfs, so the only way to go now is north toward vampires and empire, we'll see how this plays out.