I've noticed a couple of new things in 1.3. While most people already know about the new "spear_bonus_4" and "8", have you also noticed the "light_spear" that accompanies the "4"? What exactly does the "light_spear" do by itself?

I did find something else that appears to have changed: "short_pike" seems to have been altered. If I change a phalanx unit to "short_pike" they continue to hold their spears in phalanx formation, even when phalanx is toggled off in battle, rather than going to raised pike formation like they should. I don't think it did this in 1.2.