Glitch/Bug that can Insta Kill Orion aka Mel Gibson of the Wood Elves

[FallenShaw]

Not sure if it works on other lords or hero's could just be his model size, however in the campain I faced off against 2 20 stacks skarsnic. Somehow Mel Gibson had gotten drunk and was set to melee mode at the start of the fight, without me knowing.

I took a defensive highground position knowing my Inf was far better than his, 1 I upgraded melee instead of ranged 2nd, early game skarsnic is limited to gobbys. Against 5 hag bane archers 10 eternal guards and 4 wardancers, he's pretty screwed even with 40 units.

Now what almost killed me was I had Mel Gibson run forward of my army to get some early pop shots off at his spider. The map had a big hill with a slight dip going up it idk if terrian had effect on this bug, but as I clicked attack, i looked to the side to grab a cig, when idk what skarsnic or greenskins have but either a chariort unit or something similar stratled mel gibsion trying to run him over. I seeing this clicked back inside my formation, mel turned, picked one huff up and frooze mid step stuck in that animation of attempting to step.

I noticed his hp rapidly droping like 50-100 a tick. I immedately popped his healing potion i had aquired to replenish hp to delay death, clicked my hotkey for all archers and Proceeded to employ the Broken arrow tech. Sure enough 1 of the 2 units holding me dead center between them died and I was free with 10% hp left. All this happen in under 3-4 seconds. with no other unit firing or attacking mel.

Can this be repeated by a player to trap single large units of any faction or is it Wood Elves Mel Gibsion eslcusive? Idk, what i do know if a player can repeat it and it works on all single large models Multiplayer is gonna get really screwy.

The only thing I can think of happening i that the charriot system for killing has a side hitbox that chews threw inf in the code, only Mel isn't a wee moddel with only a tiny bit of hp. He's a Lord, so isn't instantly killed but gets stuck. Prob due to to me clicking away instead of attack moving me in the same direction i clipped into that box between the 2 charriots. And got stuck being constantly grinded. That's my theory anyway.

Note of intrest on it. Once stuck clicking to attack does nothing, as he won't attack until he finishes the stepping animation, i'm guessing this is because the animation takes presidence over attacking. Which is why i panicked broken arrowed the unit after nothing happened.

Do you know how embarrassing it would of been to lose my Lord to the AI as the first death of the battle lol.

[Elitewrecker PT]

What's a broken arrow.

[ope84]

It's a movie starring John Travolta and Christan Slater

[zefyris]

Yeah I saw that happen on other target with other chariot like unit "trapping " it. It's apparently a bug that has been here for a while.
I saw a video in multiplayer with Teclis being killed in a few second by a death hag like that. I think the target needs to be large for it to happen (IIRC teclis was on horse) and the attacker a chariot type unit, but I don't know if there's any more condition to do it 100% sure or if it's just random and rare occurence.

[Evono]

ye happens randomly

[gachi is manly]

Seems to be a bug related to Chariots.

I've had something similar happen with a Beastmen Chariot gobbling up one of my mages in 3 seconds flat. There was not even a chance to react to it, they literally did over 3k damage to him in the time it took for my jaw to drop.

[FallenShaw]

Broken arrow is a military tactic of firing on your own troops position

[Tj Max]

Sounds like a collision problem to me. If they use a "on Collision Enter" like System for detecting hits, the initial damage can be applied over and over again in situations like this.