Don't let the attack value fool you. It has the "spear" attribute, which means it has a penalty against infantry. As a result, they were up-stated to compensate for that.
Re: Phalanxes Overpowered?
Don't let the attack value fool you. It has the "spear" attribute, which means it has a penalty against infantry. As a result, they were up-stated to compensate for that.
Re: Phalanxes Overpowered?
Why in the world is there a -4 penalty when using spears against infantry?
I'm pretty sure spears were good against infantry.
Re: Phalanxes Overpowered?
Just the fact that if an swordsman got past the striking distance of the spearman, the spearman will find it hard to win that fight. Though in this game it's generally about formations and spearmen work well in formation, but the developers didn't think so I guess.
They get +8 against cavalry though, so it's alright.
Last edited by Korlon; 04-30-2008 at 23:25.
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Re: Phalanxes Overpowered?
no no ........no more ..........!!!
The phalanxes are very well ballanced....
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Re: Phalanxes Overpowered?
Hell no, they are often equal in skill against infantry when flanked or attacked from behind by them.Originally Posted by The Wicked
Re: Phalanxes Overpowered?
the problem lies in the great flexibility that the RTW engine gives to phalanxes...real life phalanxes couldn't run and change the direction of the pikes so easily
Re: Phalanxes Overpowered?
well in my mac campaing my deuteroi and mercenary phalanxes are very easy to beat in hand to hand combat .... not to mention the frontal attacks by other phalanxes ..... they fall like flies
"Alexander came by the statue of his father and spoke loud: `Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and of all the Hellenic peoples, join your fellow-soldiers and entrust yourselves to me, so that we can move against the barbarians and liberate ourselves from the Persian bondage, for AS Hellenes WE should not be slaves to barbarians."
Re: Phalanxes Overpowered?
Rhomphaiaphoroi > Phalanx in hand to hand combat in all my battles.
Re: Phalanxes Overpowered?
...except that spear was replaced with light_spear starting with 1.0 (replacing the -4 attack vs infantry with -4 defense vs infantry) but the increased spear attack values were not lowered back.
Last edited by mcantu; 05-01-2008 at 02:27.
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Re: Phalanxes Overpowered?
Can someone else confirm if that's true? Would modding down the attack and increasing defense skill of all light_spear units solve this?
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