Quote Originally Posted by dsyrow1
Right, but if you take off the phalanx ability and let the hoplites fight naturally, they will still switch to the swords when charging, and put their spears away. What is that all about?
I could think in that case they´ll only have swords, because they get the spears because of the phalanx ability. You can, in effect, turn any unit into a phalanx unit, by giving them this formation, and they´ll get the spears automatically. The only other thing is giving the fs_spear animation to the soldier model of the unit in question, lest they slash around with their pikes.