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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DrSpunj" data-source="post: 1502651" data-attributes="member: 994">That's a fair way of looking at it. I guess my hesitation at that working is somewhere the line has to be drawn between their instinctive response to stick together and how many component creatures are necessary to spread themselves out like that. IMO, to go after 2 targets 20' or more apart you need more than a single standard swarm because a larger swarm has enough components to spread itself out like that.While your explanation makes a lot of sense for that first round (as they approach both targets) I have a real hard time applying it to any later rounds. Assume you have a swarm in an ABCD 4-square line and neither of the targets in squares A & D die with the swarm's first attack. The swarm creatures in A & D are having a good time munching on their targets, while the B & C swarm creatures do what? Just hang out because of their "instinctive need to stick together"?I just don't see it. It makes a lot more sense to me that when a swarm approaches equidistant targets like A & D that a few creatures would initially head toward both targets, but the majority would randomly pick one or the other (let's say A), and that's where the entire swarm would get dragged to. The few that originally headed towards D realize they're getting left behind, and even if they made it to D's square they wouldn't have enough buddies with them to do any real damage like the swarm does. So they hightail it back to the mob/swarm because majority rules.Now, I can see someone throwing the argument I used above back at me, here. Namely that since the swarm has a 10' space and only a single target (A), there's 3 other squares of swarm creatures sitting around doing nothing. I just don't see it that way. I picture them crawling, jumping, flying around each other to all attack our poor target A, but since they get in each other's way and keep falling off and getting pushed aside by their comrades they keep spilling out into the other 3 squares the swarm fills up. If another target ends up moving next to A, then they're only too happy to shift their focus to include the new target.If they tried that in the ABCD configuration I mentioned first, I'd think they'd split themselves into two parts. Since neither is then big enough to be a swarm, I just don't see it happening. Instead the majority ends up picking A or D, unless you have a larger swarm which is big enough to go after both.Hope all that made sense! <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh    :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" />Thanks.DrSpunj</blockquote>

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