I am confused about what to do when a monster is instructed to engage a figure that it can't possibly reach due to other obstacles.
The specific situation that I ran into was this:
The zombies had +2 movement from the activation special rules.
Their first action was to engage the hero with the most damage suffered. This was Avric Albright (light blue circle) here.
The next action was to attack an adjacent hero. The first three zombies did this with no trouble. Since there was no specific target for the attacks I divided the attacks between Avric and Syndrael (green circle) as per the rules on deciding.
Then came zombie number four (yellow circle). It had no way of getting adjacent to Avric, but it could move closer by following the yellow path. There were no other movement actions listed (and no retreats), so nothing else to go on.
In the end I decided that this was closer to Avric (as per moving "towards" an enemy), so it would go here and attack Syndrael (it's only target).
Is this what you would have done?
Now to get nitpicky for the sake of discussion. Imagine that the zombie started one space closer to Avric. Now the starting and ending space are both the same distance (2 spaces) from the target of the engage move. Is it still moving towards Avric at that point?
How would you rule this?
I would say that the zombie still moves next to Syndrael, but I can see an argument that it just moves up behind one of the others and waits, as that would result in a shorter distance.
In the end I'll just do whatever makes the most sense at the time, but I would like to stay true to the rules as much as possible. Thanks!