Arcade battles

[paul_kiss]

I've just noticed that when I set arcade mode ON before starting a campaign, units have some 160 men in them. If the arcade mode's OFF units have some 41 or so soldiers.

I'm playing the Scythian campaign with arcade off and, say, axemen have 41 men in the unit. And I've just tried to start a campaign for the Seleucids with arcade ON, and the militia hoplites have 160 men. So looks like arcade mode on/off affects the number of soldiers in a unit.

I've also noticed that tight-loose formation and morale are present in the arcade mode, since the militia hoplites could have performed tight/loose and they did lose their morale.

The thing that embarrasses me is that the description of the arcade option writes: "the battles are less realistic but more quick". But when I tried to play with arcade mode on, I saw those huge crowds of men in a unit, and thought that such unit size is more realistic, than that when the arcade mode is off.

[Aradan]

??? I've never seen what you describe... I just re-checked; units have their usual number of men and morale, fatigue, ammo, formations ect are disabled... Dunno