This is sort of a modding related question. It's not a question of how, its a question of should something be done. I welcome everyone's opinion.

In BI the less disciplined cavalry have a very loose open formation, for example Sea Raider Cav, Hunnic Archers, etc I think their spacing is 3m on the sides 6m front to back. On huge unit sizes these units are very unwieldy and virtually useless in cities. Also there is enough space between units already that using the loose formation button is totally unnecessary.

A simple mod in export_desc_units could tighten up their formation. I'm tempted to just do it.... But, the units were designed that way on purpose to reflect their undisciplined nature. On the one hand tightening their formation would make them better and easier for me to use. On the other hand there is a part of my brain that says I shouldn't change units to make them easier to use, I should adjust my playing to accomodate inferior units. What do you guys think?

BTW: I already modded my game so that all the crappy horde units have square formation. I hated being unable to draw a single line of arbitrary length and depth.