Needed to rewrite the pathing to get this to work. I actually had been using a purposefully broken pathing algorithm from when I was making random maps.

assets/ai.json

@@ -54,6 +54,19 @@
         "enemy_dead": true
       }
     },
+    {
+      "name": "face_enemy",
+      "cost": 10,
+      "needs": {
+        "no_more_enemies": false,
+        "in_combat": false,
+        "enemy_found": true
+      },
+      "effects": {
+        "in_combat": true,
+        "enemy_dead": true
+      }
+    },
     {
       "name": "collect_items",
       "cost": 5,
@@ -119,6 +132,7 @@
     "Host::actions":
       ["find_enemy",
       "kill_enemy",
+      "face_enemy",
       "collect_items",
       "use_healing"],
     "Enemy::actions":