Question about EDU

[Suraknar]

Hello,

I have been playing with unit stats as of late however, there are some queestion marks about some unts that I have not been able to answer.

Specifically it has to do with Spear using units.

The EDU is not very explicit about all this, I am assuming this is due to patches (I am running 1.5), and the notes not being updated while the stat entries are being updated.

Now I did some searches and found several discussions about the behavior of spears, many of which were prior to 1.3 which addressed many issues about spears and phalanxes.

Still some questions remain unnanswered (or at least I havent found the good threads if they exist).

For instance, the attribute spear is what defines that a unit receives bonuses against cavalry and while receiving negative bonuses against infantry.

It seems that previous to 1.3, these bonuses were hidden, and made open in the form of spear_bonus_x

1 - But did this also made the spear or light_spear attributes to now only affect visuals of spears in game?

Second, I am guessing that the way the game determines how to apply this positive or negative bonus depends on the category attribute of a given unit, for instance, a unit armed with spears will have a bonus vs a category cavalry whiel get negative bonus vs infantry category.

So far so good, but now another question arises from this since, some units are of class light yet they are armed with spears and have stat_pri_attr spear, spear_bonus_8.

2 - What exactly is affected by the class spearmen attribute, and how would a unit armed with spears of the category infantry and class spearmen be different from another unit category infantry armed with spear and with class light or heavy?

Finally there is this:

; short_pike = Use shorter than normal spears. Phalanx capable units only
;

There isnt any units using this attribute.

3 - Has the effects of this been replaced by some other attribute? and if yes which one?

Thank you for any clarification on these questions, also it would be nice to have a thread that explains all of the attributes that can be found on units in EDU, unless it already exists and I was not able to find it, would appreciate if you can point me to the good direction here.

Cheers!

EDIT: Oki I mixed some attributes here :P Modified the thread for clarity :P