Why did the hog riders follow this path?
Considering a situation like this:
You would think that they would go towards the cannon first, since it's the shortest path there.
Instead apparently they went for the archer tower:
Why is that?
Best Answer
Why did my hogs target the archer tower instead of the cannon, which was obviously closer?
This is because the troop's targeting AI has a spec of "random" (actually determined by the attack's timestamp) placed into it.
What this does is that if there are two targets, of similar distance, as you've shown there, the troop may pick one over the other.
You can see this visible, if you were to extract a replay, change its timestamp and play it. This time, you'll see a different outcome as all a replay does is store the times which troop is deployed and not their full path.
Another comment to it: You may have calculated the path to the cannon incorrectly; it's a tiny bit closer than you think.
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What do Hog Riders target?
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