multi animation task

hi guy,s
so i,v been searching around the internet a while a go about how can i actually animate multiple characters at once but with different,s on timing or randomly animation something like an army walking through
so i,v been recommended to use the particle system, and set it to object or group and use a models as an animation reference ,but it didn’t work right to me so i am asking her some one must know something right?
the scene that i want to do is something like ,an army of monster,s chasing 3 people,s on a vale so i want thous monster,s to do the same final action but on different time,s by there position in the scene so i have this scene from the the hobbit the battle of five armies ,when the Dwarfs start to make the shield wall against the other army

so this is exactly what i am trying to do

if any one have any Suggestion it will be nice

You may want to check out the boids addon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1ltwA2CXBE

I’ve never done this myself, but it should be possible.

Good luck!

ok ill chack it out

ok this is so awesome man ,