Are 2H animations still bugged in 1.2 ??

[Old Geezer]

I closely watched a combat between 2-handed axemen and pavaise crossbowmen last night. The axes were swung about just as often as the swords were. A lot of parrying and poking however; it looked rather stupid at x1 speed, but I guess the combat and animation are working.

[FactionHeir]

Pavise crossbow swords don't swing as often as swordsmen swords I think.
Also, the thing that is problematic about the 2H anims is that their fast anims cannot kill (non lethal) and their slowest two anims are lethal and those get interrupted most of the time pre-fix.

Against mounted enemies, they only use fast anims and those are lethal agaisnt cavalry only

[Zajuts149]

Pavise crossbow swords don't swing as often as swordsmen swords I think.
Also, the thing that is problematic about the 2H anims is that their fast anims cannot kill (non lethal) and their slowest two anims are lethal and those get interrupted most of the time pre-fix.

Against mounted enemies, they only use fast anims and those are lethal agaisnt cavalry only

Hi FactionHeir,

Can you give a brief description of what you have done to fix the 2H bug?

[FactionHeir]

Here you go:
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...00&postcount=3

If used in a setting of my mod, there's also added balancing, but that's not absolutely necessary as the files alone should do a lot to fix it even in an otherwise unmodded game.

[Zajuts149]

Thanks!
Does that mean that DEK and DNK have lethality on all their attack animations?
Is it difficult to mod these animations? I especially want to speed up archers..

[FactionHeir]

No, lethalities cannot be changed without giving them different anims, which will look odd (say giving 2H axe a halberd or 2H sword anim). What I did was make those anims a bit faster and their block duration shorter, so they tend to waste less time using them. The lethal slow anims were sped up to increase their usefulness. The anims that are used against both infantry and cavalry were slwoed down somewhat to not make them too powerful against cavalry (they perform better than spears otherwise).

I was initially wanting to remove some anims altogether, but that doesn't seem to work.

[PBI]

So am I right in getting the impression that all 2-handers are bugged, but some are more bugged than others?

TBH I avoid all 2-handers like the plague and have done so since my early painful experiences of confidently sending my heavy billmen and DEKs to butcher units of light cavalry only to watch in horror as they simply stood around being slaughtered.