Melee Question

[BarbarianHunter]

Sometimes when I...
a) click the move button then
b) Hover over the target I want to engage with a melee attack
...it doesn't offer the option for a melee attack & I can't figure out why.

Anybody know?

 

[Kereminde]

From the screenshot, it looks like you set your move already? There's no 'grid' of dots showing movement nodes you can travel to, which I usually see.

Weird. I'll have to try to figure how to reach the same sort of appearance later.

 

[BarbarianHunter]

From the screenshot, it looks like you set your move already? There's no 'grid' of dots showing movement nodes you can travel to, which I usually see.

Weird. I'll have to try to figure how to reach the same sort of appearance later.

Thank you for the reply.

When it happens I'll hit the ESC key to reset my options and start everything start (move, fire, jump, etc...). I still can't initiate a melee attack. By my reckoning, it happens in like 2% of potential melee attacks.

 

[BarbarianHunter]

Here's a screenshot of the same unit but it's able to initiate a melee attack. I wonder if there is a way to have the unit either stay where it is or manually steer it to a forest hex (arrow) to initiate the attack? I don't want to step into the open & lose my 40% damage reduction.

 

[Spartakus]

You can click on the green point next to the target to attack from that forrest hex. It's often not very intuitive from where you can melee a target, has mostly to do with requiring a more or less equal elevation.