I feel the AI cheats a bit when it comes to traps. Sometimes I lay a trap and the shortest distance is straight through that trap, the enemy has to walk only one tile to reach me, but the enemy goes around the trap tile to attack my unit. I have sometimes noticed similar behavior when the enemy starts walking from its starting position. I would replay the same battle and note that there are only two direction possibilities. I would place a trap on one of those to see which tile the unit would step on, making sure that everything else was identical, same stack on same arena, casting the same spells and giving otherwise identical battle orders, but the enemy would avoid the trap tile and opt to walk on the free tile no matter where I placed the trap. One battle I even remember which way the enemy would go and place the trap on that path and of course, everything else being equal, it decided to walk around the trap.
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