light spear balance (vs. swords) in 1.2

[Aper]

I think so too. Same goes for Massaliotai Hoplitai and the Indogreek Hoplites. How you already said, if a soldier is stoken down but not killed, he stands up and switch to secondary weapon. As human player you have to order the unit to attack again and again only to maintain the swordfight. Thorakitai Hoplitai are easier to use, if they are in melee with an infantery unit, only klick alt attack one time and they will fight with swords until you order something else.

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A very long time ago I asked for help trying to switch spear as primary and sword as secondary for those elites: sadly people answered that the only way to do this is to change the model of the unit with 3D Max or similar...

There are two possible solutions:
1) change EB units with similar units of other mods that have spear as primary and sword as secondary
2) remove the spear

I use the second option and I'm quite satisfied: they suffer charges but in melee they perform better than before.

BTW, have you considered the idea of linking the reduction to soldier's radius to morale, giving a lesser bonus to levies and a greater one to elites?
I'm using this system with success in the development of Paeninsula Italica mod...