did a few more tests

cant see any diff. in recruiting these units on the campaign-map, doesnt say there isnt a difference but the AI seems to keep recruiting them as if they still where the exact same troops

on the battlefield I do recommend making sure skirmish isnt used for a unit not intended to use it, or only use it in defensive mode
like I'm not going to use skirmish behaviour on the legions as they become a bit to easy to charge from behind, as these slow men are easilly caught by some cavalry
on family I'm going to use it one the actual general and on all when in defensive mode, as the engine tries to use them in cavalry formations as well (for flanking purpose) and this doesnt really work well in an attack with also skirmishing behaviour, sometimes causing an entire flanking cav.-formation to wait for the skirmisher to join the formation(making them easy pickings for archers and counter-attacks)

when you group units and call for a formation from the formation file(press one of the formation buttons) the skirmish behaviour can be re-enabled, or prevented ....


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