Cantabarian Circle=Melee death machine?

[antisocialmunky]

Sometimes infantry with high density will turn and form a circle when it tries to get back into its rectangualr formation because it keeps turning. Sometimes it'll explode and men will fly everywhere.

Think of it as a RTW moshpit bug.

[Fierro]

Sometimes it'll explode and men will fly everywhere.

I loled at this but don't know if it is meant literally or just to show that the circling bug really sucks... I'm sitting here imagining my hoplites attempting to get back into shield wall after circling for the past 5 minutes until the formation can't take anymore and men literally fly all over the place getting splattered on the walls as if they were bowling pins... lol

[kekailoa]

OP- I know what you're talking about. They're not so much forming a circle, just running constantly through the pack of men, back and forth, back and forth. I've seen it before (and used it before) and I don't why or how it happens, but it's really effective. Then, after a while, they stop, and melee ensues. Then horses go back to fighting in melee normally: like crap.

[Cute Wolf]

Normally units that do cantabrian circle could break from their formations rather quickly, and fight normally in melee... but sometimes, their movement got a charge bonus maybe(?) but it was the logical explanation of your case...

[antisocialmunky]

I loled at this but don't know if it is meant literally or just to show that the circling bug really sucks... I'm sitting here imagining my hoplites attempting to get back into shield wall after circling for the past 5 minutes until the formation can't take anymore and men literally fly all over the place getting splattered on the walls as if they were bowling pins... lol

No they do go flying. If you have a high density unit in guard mode, stack some more ontop of them, tell them to run through a similarly dense unit, and then take guard mode off, then the resulting density decrease will send men flying EVERYWHERE.

@ Wulf, that seems likely.

[John the Mad]

Ah,their getting a charge bonus,or are performing a charge, during melee.That explains it then.

Thanks.

[HunGeneral]

I don't know but this sounds suprisingly similar to how some light cavalry are suspected to have fought in meele.

I read this theory some time ago in a book on the Hometaking Hungarians. The author (can't remember his name) speculated on some evidence that after the "fake retreat" and "backword archering" (parthian shot) had weakened and tired the enemy then the light horsemen would turn around and enter meele but no by standing in one spot,, but galopping past the enemy horsemen and striking with his saber - it is fisically proven that this gives the max possible strenght to the strike and that so a saber could even cut trough a chainmail shirt.

However I don't think that this is the way it should work in R:TW. I suspect it is somekind of bug, but I'm not sure...