light spear balance (vs. swords) in 1.2

[Jackaloboulos]

Been awhile since this thread goto started, but since I was one of the primary plantiffs, here's my most recent take on things.....

-4 across the board is imbalanced. So what I did some time back, was introduce a sliding scale, dependant on the units cost, training and supposed abilities.

Levy spearman -4 attack in virtually everycase (same with almost all Archers that have spears as secondary).E.g. Levy Hoplites should be a garrison/peacekeeping force. They should not be line infantry ever. Look at any "suprisingly good unit" thread and Levy Hoplites are right up there. Well take away the 4 attack and they perform very normally, as should be.

The middle spear units, -3 attack, the better ones -2 attack. Phalanx units have double shield value when in phalax mode, so giving them 5 shield (when its a tiny little thing as well) is ridiculous. Normal Phalanx therefore have a "2" shield and Elite Phalanx have "3" shield, in addition to the above modifiers. This makes them slightly susceptible to missile file (instead of impervious as before), but still tough as nails from the front. Autocalc is seemingly unaffected.

These honestly work very well in SP mode (never tried) MP. My last huge campaign was as KH (all spear), current is Mak, having some superb proper mixed full stack action vs a strong AS atm.

Drewski, this sounds like a pretty well-thought-out fix. Do you think you could please upload it? I'd love to take it for a spin. Plus, all of the other uploaded fixes in this thread give me the Game Front "File not found, you will be redirected to..." message.

[Jackaloboulos]

Drewski, this sounds like a pretty well-thought-out fix. Do you think you could please upload it? I'd love to take it for a spin. Plus, all of the other uploaded fixes in this thread give me the Game Front "File not found, you will be redirected to..." message.

Maybe too soon...but...bump? I'd really love to try your current solution, Drewski.