What is the 2-h bug?

[Rhyfelwyr]

Since I am currently playing vanilla M2TW, as I'm having problems with the patch, I was wondering what exactly is the 2-h bug? Does it affect all 2h axemen, 2h swordsmen, billmen, halberds, 2h pikemen etc? Are they worth building at all?

[Booga]

From what I understand, it affects 2-handed axemen - this includes Norse Axemen, Galloglaich, Eagle Warriors, etc. All swords and halberds are ok. I believe billmen are broken. Dismounted knights are affected too. Look around for a fix, there's several floating around that just replace the broken animation with a working one from the demo.

[Carl]

Quick question guys. What eastern units, and Jihad/Crusade units are effected by this bug as i'm quickly throwing together a combined pike/sheild/2-hander fix And I know some of these are bugged but i'm not sure which,

[Lusted]

Religious Fanatics
Pilgrims
Tabarayyya(or however you spell it)

Those are the ones i know of.

[Carl]

Thanks Lusted. I've noticed a few people asking for the combination recently so I thought i'd throw somthing together.

[Foz]

Thanks Lusted. I've noticed a few people asking for the combination recently so I thought i'd throw somthing together.

it should be noted that a 2H fix by setting the soldier line of the affected units to something different (thus making them borrow another unit's animations) is not really the one most people would say is accepted. The typical fix ala "Zxiang's 2h fix" in fact replaces the actual animation file with one that has the demo animations for these units inserted, as the problem was found to be that the bad animations actually kept the units from being able to attack. Thus, the standard fix in fact should have nothing to do with the EDU file, and I have no idea how that other fix would change things in-game from what the typical one does.