Wait Your Turn - Enemy Circling Behaviour

This mod is now deprecated in favor of Wait Your Turn Redux. You should not use this except for legacy purposes. It remains up to not break existing modlists.

Mod Information:

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This is a lightweight, efficient scripted mod that can be entirely turned off and on through the MCM.

By the word "behaviour", it is used in the definition of how NPCs act, not how this mod is implemented. There is no relation between this mod and animations or Nemesis behaviour engine

Description:

Ever found yourself getting overwhelmed by groups of enemies? With the release of many combat overhaul mods like Skysa, Valravn, and Ultimate Combat, modded Skyrim has progressed greatly over the years.

Gone are the days of vanilla hack and slash where you and the other guy just stayed in the same general area hitting each other until one of you dropped.

Thanks to many mods, there is now attack commitment, telegraphed moves, group tactics, stagger, dodging, wounds, poise, and more brutal NPC AI.

But vanilla skyrim was never designed around the modded combat most of us have today, so there is one problem when you are fighting groups of enemies; there's no circling.

Because of that, usually, all the enemies attack all at once, however they want. Which is deadly and does not give the player a fair fighting chance. In group combat, there are too many patterns to keep track of and too many attacks coming from all directions. This usually leads to instant death, especially in dungeons where you have no space to kite enemies.

The amount of enemies that circle and the time window they each have to attack can be changed from the included MCM menu. Tweak it to your own liking.

What This Mod Does:

This mod adds a system of circling to enemies, so that they do not attack you and swarm you all at once. Instead, some of them will circle you and wait for the opportune moment to attack.

With "Wait Your Turn" Enabled:

A Fighting Chance:

You can see how the enemies are now not only spread out, but also not attacking at once. Only some bandits are actively aggressive, the rest are circling and loosely following the player.

In a way, these enemies are waiting for their turn while circling. Waiting for what? To kill the player of course.

You have more space to maneuver, and have more options available in combat. Will you counter and kill the enemy that accidentally strayed away from the others while trying to chase you? Or will you go for the enemies ar