Quote Originally Posted by Red Harvest
Actually, they can halt a charge cold that way and inflict very high casualties. This quirk has been around for quite awhile, but when being charged the pila wielder creates what amounts to a wall, then they hurl their pila point blank inflicting very high casualties. Doesn't make sense but that is what happens. I'm not sure where they must be in the animation for it to have this effect, but it is very noticeable 1vs1.

Right now in 1.3 the pila system sucks because the AI doesn't even use them.
Yeah I've noticed that, but I was speaking about when you order a Legion to attack enemies a good distance away. I've modified the pila range so if I forgot to hold down alt, instead of charging they begin searching for their pila.

Anyways, does anyone know what to edit with the AI formations? If I can get them into formation, I think this (removing prec) will be a method of getting the AI to use their pila. The only problem will be is that the Roman units with spears (those who don't throw pila) will advance while the others throw their pila, thus the spear units will be first into battle, and that isn't desireable. This should be able to be fixed by putting them in the rear of the formation though.